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Charles Luther Bradfield
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Born in Rushden in 1858, he was the son of Robert Bradfield - minister of the Old Baptist Church.
Charles is a shoe manufacturer in the census but no details of a company have been found so perhaps he made bespoke shoes to order, or was a partner in a factory. In 1881 he was aged 23 and living in a cottage on Rose Hill with his widowed mother Martha. In 1898 he married Emily Sargent, widow of Walter Sargent who had died two years earlier. In 1903 Charles, Emily and her two sons signed a deed of partnership as shoe manufacturers in Crabb Street, to be known as Walter Sargent & Co. They lived at 114 Newton Road. During WWI he was secretary of the Red Cross, and for various other collections of funds. In 1919 the deed of partnership was dissolved and Emily and her son William continued the business. The same year Charles and Emily sold "Two plots of land, five houses and a factory in Duck Street to Ernest Hollis for £690" and his home "Elmham in Newton Road to Mrs A R Hawkes for £1,500". They moved across the road, to a new house, and took the name Elmham with them. [the old Elmham was now renamed Eastonwood]
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