Charles Dimes

  General Notes:

5 December 1786 Apprenticed for 7 years to James Dornford, citizen (freeman) and cooper.
4 December 1787 Turned over to a new master, Samuel May, citizen and coachmaker. (By this time the guild to which a man belonged did not always correspond to the trade he followed. As Charles was a haberdasher by trade, his masters probably followed the same line of business.)
December 1794 Became a freeman of the City by servitude.
1796 - 1806 Living at 102 Minories.
1813 living in Battersea.
1814 Bequeathed property worth £300 in Princes St, Lambeth, by his father.
1816 - 1817 at High Holborn. Laceman and haberdasher (Post Office London Directory)
1828 living at 5 Frederick Place, Vauxhall
1835 living 2 Henry St. Kennington Lane, Kennington.
1837 Bequeathed Ann's share of the house at 12 Noel Street (parallel to and south of Oxford St)
1841 census. living alone except for his servant Elizabeth Scrace.
Died of bronchitis at Harleyford Road, Kennington, on 6 April 1844, aged 72
Will- (very long winded; 7 pages) He leaves his mahogany secretary bookcase and all his books to son Frederick, 2 large china jars, card box and counters to son in law John Betham, his leasehold house lately occupied by John Betham to his daughter Ann Betham, the watch and appendages belonging to his late wife to grand-daughter Elizabeth Betham, and her gold neck chain and eyeglass to grand-daughter Mary Betham, all the plate, linen and china to be divided between Ann and Frederick and £10 for a ring to his friend George Wilson. His son James owed him £500 from a failed business venture with one William Baldwin. James had some time previously inherited a one third share in the estate of Elizabeth Mercer which his father had appropriated as one of her executors as security for the debt. He therefore proposes that James should sign that inheitance over to him in exchange for an annuity of£50 which would remain in the control of his executors to stop James selling it. Charles leaves an annuity of £90 a year to daughter Elizabeth and one of £10 a year to cousin Ann Wanless. (Do not know relationship with Ann Wanless or Elizabeth Mercer) He owned freehold premises in Love Lane, Rotherhithe and copyhold premises in Kennington Lane and Henry St, Surrey and the leashold property in Princes Road, the rents on which his executors John Betham and George Wilson were to use to pay the annuities and support his grandchildren until they reached the age of 21. He bequeaths to his servant Elizabeth Scrace £15 and all the furniture and bedding in the room where she sleeps.
The witnesses to the will were George Frederick Fry & N. S. E. Steinberg, clerks to Mr Thomas Dimes, 26 Bread St, Cheapside.

The following is an extract from www.oldbaileyonline.org
ANDREW DEALE , alias DOWLING, miscellaneous, 2nd July, 1806.
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Trial Summary:
Crime(s): miscellaneous
Punishment Type: imprisonment : Newgate
Verdict: Guilty

Original Text:
420. ANDREW DEALE , alias DOWLING , was indicted for a misdemeanor .
The case was stated by Mr. Gleed.
CHARLES DIMES sworn. Examined by Mr. Gleed. I live in the Minories, I am a haberdasher. On the 26th of May last, about nine o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came to my shop and asked me for half a dozen of buttons, she looked at them and said they were good ones, she would have a dozen of them; she tendered me a shilling, I told her I knew it was a bad one, I asked her how many more of these shillings she had, she said she did not know what I meant; that moment I heard something fall, I went round and picked up a paper with a bad shilling and sixpence in it.
FRANCIS KINNERSLEY sworn. Examined by Mr. Gleed. I am a constable; on the 26th of May I took the prisoner in custody, I searched her and found ninepence three farthings upon her; Mr. Dimes gave me this plain shilling, and one shilling and sixpence.
Q.(to Dimes) What did the buttons cost. - A. Sixpence.
WILLIAM PARKER sworn. Examined by Mr. Gleed. Will you have the goodness sir to look at that money. - A. This is a counterfeit one, it is newly coloured and has the grease upon it to make it look as if it had been in circulation, the other shilling is also bad, and the sixpence is bad, they are of the same kind.
Prisoner's Defence. I did not drop the shilling and sixpence in the shop, but I offered him the shilling.
The prisoner called two witnesses, who gave her a good character.
GUILTY , aged 18.
Confined One Year in Newgate , and at the expiration of that Time to find Security for her good Behaviour for Two Years more .
London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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ANN WILLIAMS, theft : simple grand larceny, 18th September, 1820.
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Trial Summary:
Crime(s): theft : simple grand larceny
Punishment Type: imprisonment
Verdict: Guilty
Crime Location: Merlin's Cave, public-house
Original Text:
1100. ANN WILLIAMS was indicted for stealing, on the 8th of June, forty-eight handkerchiefs, value 5 l, , the goods of Charles Dimes .
CHARLES DIMES . I am a haberdasher, and live in Holborn. On the 8th of June, the prisoner came to my shop, and said she was servant to the niece of Mrs. Collyer, of the Bull Inn, who was married, and lived in Northampton-square, and her mistress wished to see some handkerchiefs, that she was going out, and they must be sent directly. I looked out three or four dozen, and sent my daughter with them. They then went away together.
ELIZA DIMES . My father sent me with the prisoner. I had the parcel. When we got to the back of Merlin's Cave, public-house, she said
"This is our house, if you will stop a few minutes in the garden I will see if my master is at home." She spoke to a person at the bar, returned and said she did not know what to do, for her mistress was gone to her sister's. I agreed to go there. She said I could wait in the parlour till she returned. I gave them to her and sat down in Merlin's Cave. She did not return, and was apprehended two days afterwards. I gave them to her to shew her mistress, she was to bring me back what her mistress did not choose.
JOHN BARNLEY . I am a constable. I apprehended the prisoner, and found two duplicates in her pocket, and three more in a bureau in her room.
ALEXANDER MILNE . I am a pawnbroker. On the 9th of June, the prisoner pledged three handkerchiefs, and on the 10th two more.
JOHN WHELDEN . On the 8th of June, the prisoner pledged eight handkerchiefs with me.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
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See original <http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/facsimiles/1820s/182009180085.html>Prisoner's Defence. I was sent by Mr. Patterson for them, and gave them to him. He said he should send back what he did not keep.
GUILTY . Aged 22.
Confined Six Months .
Third Middlesex Jury before H. R. Reynolds, Esq.

Charles married Susannah Oliver in Jun 1795 in St. Giles, Cripplegate, Middlesex, England. (Susannah Oliver died on 15 Jan 1930.)

  Marriage Notes:

Charles of St. Botolph's, Aldgate and Susannah of St. Giles in the Fields. Both over 21.