Cunnington, Charles

Charles was born on the 14th July 1882 and was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 26th November 1882.  His parents were Charles (1858-1937) and Emma (1860-1936)

Charles Senior, was a gamekeeper so the family moved around a lot, working at various estates in the Midlands. The family were living in Studley in 1891, in Meriden in 1901 and in Eathorpe in 1911. By that time, Charles, who was still single, was 29 years old and living alone at Forge Mill, Shenstone, Lichfield and employed in the family occupation of Gamekeeper.

The Cunnington’s were a large family and Charles was the eldest of twelve children. He had eight sisters – Mabel, Elizabeth, Grace, Ada, Olive, Maud, Emma and Florence and three brothers, William, Daniel and Clements.

Charles married Ruby Evelyn Bott in Q4 1912 in Walsall.  They had two sons, Clement Charles (1914-1977) and Norman Daniel (1917-1996).  Norman was born just 2 months before his father died.

Charles brother, Daniel, was also killed in the war.  In 1918,  their father, Charles (senior), wrote to Lady Nelson, asking that his two sons names appear together on Warwick War Memorial.

Charles’ widow Ruby married again, on 1st December 1917, to Francis Arthur Thomas Savage and went on to have three more sons. She and her husband both died, separately, in 1968 in Castle Bromwich