SYMONDS Charles James		Male View treeBorn: 1818Died: 1895
Father: UnspecifiedMother: Unspecified
Children: SYMONDS James, SYMONDS Gertrude Amy, SYMONDS Winifred Emma, SYMONDS Harold, SYMONDS Florence Evelyn, SYMONDS Annie Alberta, SYMONDS Chloe Mary, SYMONDS Alfred Charles, SYMONDS Charles Turner, SYMONDS Ethel Louise, SYMONDS Edgar James, SYMONDS Louis Henry, SYMONDS Linda Maud
Siblings: none

 

Charles James SYMONDS b: 27 Nov 1818 in Philleigh, Cornwall, England, m: 20 Apr 1859 in Marseille to Louisa Henrietta GRANT, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, d: Abt. Apr 1895 in South Stoneham, Hampshire, England

Charles was a Ships Surgeon from a prestigious Cornish family (ref. Alison Challis, daughter-in-law of Joan Mary Fairhurst and wife of Dr Andrew Luke Challis born 1955)

Charles Symonds was a Cornish man who studied medicine at Oxford and did his surgical fellowship in Edinburgh. He was the 5th generation of Symonds (Cornish gentry) to live in Stratton House Falmouth. His father was a vicar and prior to that they had packet ships, when my ship comes in etc. These were fast sailing boats that took correspondence around the empire. They took post etc to the West Indies via Marseille etc. He was on the tall ships for 20 years so when he finished he married Louisa and they had 13/15 children! He was meant to be very kind and did not charge the poor. Prior to coming to Falmouth they came from Constantine, St Mawes etc all very Poldark!

…..he was at the Crimea. (Source Alison Challis)

 

03/03/2016