Shattock Family History has a terrific Victorian family photo captioned: "Charles Shattock family. Charles Shattock (1857-1928) is John Shattock's great grandfather. He owned a string of shoe stores on the Somerset coast." The dates are good but really there is no evidence that this is our Shattock.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has found another Charles Shattock who lived in the Turnham Green/Chiswick area in 1913 when the foundation stone was laid on the Turnham Green Church Hall, Heathfield House School, Heathfield Gardens, London, W4, whom he believes is the more likely candidate for the name on the stone.
Charles Shattock was born in either 1842 or 1843, a son of Robert Shattock (1815-1876) and Jane Shattock née White (1815-1900). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1843 in the Taunton registration district, Somerset. On 8 January 1843 he was baptised in St John the Baptist Church at Ashbrittle, Wellington, Somerset, where the baptismal register shows the family were living in Ashbrittle and that his father was a farmer.
In the 1851 census he was shown as aged 8 years and born in Ashbrittle. He was living at Court Farm, Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, with his parents and three siblings: Mary Jane Shattock (b.1843); Robert White Shattock (1845-1893) and William Richards Shattock (1849-1928), together with one female and three male servants. His father was again described as a farmer.
He was described as a farmer's boy in the 1861 census living in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, with his parents, three siblings: Mary Jane Shattock; William Richards Shattock and John White Shattock (1853-1927), together with two male servants: a carter and 13-year-old boy. His father was described as a farmer of 93 acres employing one man.
On 4 April 1870 he married Elizabeth White James (1850-1923) in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Drive, West Buckland, Wellington, Somerset, where in the marriage register he is described as a bachelor and a butcher residing at St James', London, whilst his wife is shown as a spinster living in West Buckland. They had three children: Elizabeth White James Shattock (1871-1957); Mary Frances Shattock (1874-1879) and Charles Robert Shattock (1879-1957).
When the 1871 census was undertaken he was described as a vaccination clerk living at 73 Portland Road, Kensington, with his wife. He was still living at this address at the time of the 1881 census in which he is shown as a vaccination officer together with his wife, their two surviving children, Elizabeth & Charles, a cousin called William White, aged 28 years and a female domestic servant.
Overseer returns show him listed from 1882 to 1885 as the occupier at 3 The Terrace, Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middlesex (now Greater London) and in 1886 at 30 Brandenburgh Road, Chiswick. (Brandenburgh Road was renamed as Burlington Road in 1917). In the 1891 census he was again shown as a vaccination officer, living at 30 Brandenburgh Road, Chiswick, with his wife, their daughter and a female general domestic servant.
He was described as a vaccination officer and the Collector of the Guardians for Kensington in the 1901 census. He was living at 1 Arlington Park Gardens South, Chiswick, with his wife, their daughter, their son who was shown as a medical student & dental surgeon, his widowed mother-in-law Elizabeth James née White (1818-1901) together with a female general domestic servant.
When he completed his 1911 census return form he described himself as a retired vaccination officer & Collector of the Guardians Kensington - superannuated, living in a property consisting of 10 rooms at 1 Walpole Gardens, Chiswick, with his wife and their daughter, together with a female general domestic servant. Electoral registers in 1919 list both him and his wife at 1 Walpole Gardens, Chiswick
Probate records confirm that his address had been Lyndholme, 1 Walpole Gardens, Chiswick and that he died, aged 79 years, on 10 February 1922. His death was registered in the 1st quarter of 1922 in the Brentford registration district, Middlesex (now Greater London). The Deceased on Line website claims he was buried in February 1922 in the Kensington & Chelsea district. Probate was granted to his wife and son on 28 March 1922 and his effects totalled £9,089-5s-8d.
Note: a brief search turned up pages like Kresen Kernow which lead us to think that Vaccination Officer and Collector of the Guardians are both positions held at a workhouse, and/or in connection with the Poor Law.
