Founder of the Peele Almshouses, built in memory of his mother, Helen Peele.
From A Rotherhithe Blog: "Charles Peele was a partner in Brandram's at the time. According to the London Gazette of April 13th 1897, the executors of his will were Reverend Henry Evan Brandram Peele and Andrew Brandram, suggesting some family connection between the Peeles and Brandrams."
For more on this possible family connection see Brandram Brothers.
The plaque gives Childown Hall, Chertsey, Surrey as his country home. Chertsey Museum have a photo of this substantial house and "John Brandon Peele bought the Hall, which comprised a study, morning room, dining room, drawing room, library, billiard room, flower room, 9 bedrooms, 6 servants bedrooms, a kitchen, scullery, butler’s pantry, maids’ sitting room, plus one bathroom and 4 WCs, in 1865." It was apparently demolished to make way for a tank factory.
If JBP bought the house that CJP lived in then perhaps JBP was CJP's father, and that suggests that the Brandram/Peele relationship (business, or family, or both) was begun by JBP's parents, or earlier.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this man. He states that Charles John Peele was born on 16 October 1851 the eldest of the six children of John Brandram Peele (1809-1896) and Helen Peele née Jones (1820-1890). On 26 May 1852 he was baptised at St George's Church, Bloomsbury, Middlesex (now Greater London), where in the baptismal register his date of birth is recorded also showing that his family lived in Woburn Square, Bloomsbury and that his father was a merchant.
His five siblings were: Adela Helen Peele (1857-1945); Walter Brandram Peele (1858-1927); Constance Sarah Peele (1860-1924); Henry Evan Brandrum Peele (1863-1928) and Everline Marian Frederica Peele (1864-1919).
When the 1861 census was undertaken he was shown as aged 9 years and a scholar, visiting the home of his maternal uncle, Thomas Jones (1806-1866), at East Dulwich House, Goose Green, East Dulwich, Surrey (now Greater London).
In the 1881 census he is described as aged 29 years, unmarried, a merchant and saltpetre refiner residing at Childown Hall, Longcross, Chertsey, Surrey, with his parents, four of his siblings: Adela Helen Peele; Walter Brandram Peele; Constance Sarah Peele and Everline Marian Frederica Peele, together with a governess, a butler, a footman, a nurse, a cook, a lady's maid, two housemaids and a kitchen-maid. His father was also shown as a merchant and saltpetre refiner.
Both he and his father were registered as electors in 1896 in Southwark, London, as although they were resident at Childown Hall, Chertsey, they qualified as business ratepayers at Brandrams Chemical Works, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, London.
His death, aged 45 years, was registered in the 4th quarter of 1896 in the Chertsey Registration District, Surrey and he was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Lyne Lane, Lyne, Chertsey, KT16 0AJ. Probate records confirm that he died on 3 November 1896 at Childown Hall, Longcross and that when probate was granted on 18 March 1897, jointly to his brother the Reverend Henry Evan Brandram Peele - a clerk and Andrew Brandram - a merchant, his effects totalled £25,803-5s-6d.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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