COLCHESTER, Charles Bye

1815 - 1871

Charles Bye Colchester was baptised at St Nicholas Church, Ipswich on 17 March 1815, son of Charles Cornwell Colchester, a substantial candle & soap manufacturer, and his wife Mary née Bye (bapt 24 February 1783-29 January 1857), who married at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London on 14 February 1813. A member of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists from 1837, where he was tutored by Henry Davy. Of Milton Place, London when he married at Burnham, Norfolk on 27 June 1843, Hester Gwyn (bapt 8 March 1822-6 October 1902), fifth daughter of Anthony Gwyn (29 July 1780–22 July 1861), of Tours, late of Baron's Hall, Norfolk. In 1853, he applied for a migration passport and in 1861 was a 46-year-old Russia broker, living at Treat Hill, Forest Hill, Lewisham, London with his 39-year-old wife Hester and kept three indoor servants, two of whom were born in Suffolk. In 1866, a director in the promotion of The United Discount Company and in a partnership of Charles Cornwell Colchester, Henry Sparrowe Colchester (bapt 20 March 1830-2 August 1894), Charles Edward Colchester and Thomas Scarman (3 June 1825-2 March 1897), Russia brokers of South Sea House, City which was dissolved in September 1870. Charles Bye Colchester was of South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, London when he died at Cannes, France on 24 November 1871 and his will was proved in London in 1873 by his widow Hester Colchester, of 1 Champion Terrace, Denmark Hill, Surrey, he had no issue. The minutes of the Ipswich Society of Professional & Amateur Artists 1832-1840 only mention a Charles Colchester, and this may have been his father Charles Cornwell Colchester.

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