Born at Beaminster, Dorset.
1841 Census
St Mary Well Street, Beaminster.
Son of Joseph [Blacksmith] & Ann Clare.
Six children at home [including 6 year old Charles].
1851 Census
St Mary Well Street, Beaminster.
Joseph Clare, 67 Blacksmith Journeyman.
Ann Clare, 48 charwoman.
6 children [Charles is a 16-year-old Apprentice Tailor].
Enlisted at Brighton on the 16th of January 1855.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 7".
Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill, on the 29th of September 1855.
Served in Eupatoria.Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 17th of April 1862.
Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Death registered
Mary Ann Clare, 27, wife, registered September Quarter 1869 in Beaminster.
1871 Census
20, St Mary Well Street, Beaminster.
Charles Clare, 34, widower, lodger, Tailor, born Beaminster.
Marriage registered
Charles Clare and Fanny Viney, registered March Quarter 1877 in Beaminster.
Births registered
Joseph Henry Clare, registered June Quarter 1879.
Fanny Vivey Clare, registered June Quarter 1880.
1881 Census
RM: Charles Clare is shown on the 1881 Census Returns for South Gate, Beaminster, as a Tailor, aged 43, born Beaminster, Dorset, living at South Gate, Beaminster, with his wife, Fanny, 29, born Litton Cheney, and two children, Joseph, 2 and Fanny, 11 months. A lodger and child are also shown.
1891 Census
Fanny Clare, 39, Tailoress, now living in Whatley, Langport, East Somerset.
Three children shown: Joseph 12, Eliza, 9, and George 5.
1901 Census
Fanny, 49, Tailoress, still living in Langport with Joseph and George.
1911 Census
Whatley, Langport.
Fanny Clare, 59, Tailoress.
Also shown are her married daughter and granddaughter, and a boarder.
Death registered
Fanny Clare, 71, June Quarter 1923, in Langport.
Death registered
A Charles Clare, 48, March Quarter 1886 in Lambeth.
Registration of births, deaths & marriage, and Census information for 1841, 1851, 1871, 1891, 1901 & 1911, kindly provided by Chris Poole.