Charlotte Laura Monfries in 1891 and 1901

Charlotte Laura Monfries in 1891 and 1901

Charlotte Laura Monfries, the second daughter of Charlotte Monfries and James Laurie Monfries, was as we know born at her mother’s family home in Broadclyst in Devon in 1857, while her father was still probably working on Alderney. In 1880 she married the man we know as ‘Ernest Hall of Shimla’ in Calcutta. In the 1891 census she is on furlough from India, living in Cardiff with her mother and with a daughter, Charlotte H. Hall, born in 1888 in India. Like Francis and Clifford Peel, it was common for the wives of British India officials to come home for a birth; as we know, Francis returned to Bombay with his mother Frances Maude, and died there aged nine months in 1908; Clifford (Nicholas) remained in Exeter with his grandparents Charles James and Alice Edith Vlieland. The 1901 census tells us that Charlotte Laura had a second daughter, Margaret Laura, born in Cardiff in 1890 (presumably at Charlotte’s home), and a son, Ernest William, born in India in 1892, whose life at Exeter School and Exeter College Oxford, and death at Krithia in May 1915, we know about. Charlotte Laura is still alive in 1901, but the documentation of Ernest William’s death in 1915 mentions neither her nor her two daughters.
Thanks to Barbara for this update