Rampton of Worting Family Chart no. 47

	Arthur [Alfred] Charles RAMPTON		Mabel Florence BALLAM
	born circa 1882 in Battersea		b. circa 1886
			m. 2 Jun 1912 at Portsmouth, HAM
	d. 1969 Portsmouth RD, aged 87		d. 1969 Droxford RD HAM, aged 83
	1st Stoker, Royal Navy

Their Children

Dorothy Mabel	Laura Winifred	Letty Hilda	Frederick William Arthur	Nora E	Victor R D
b. 1913 Portsmouth RD	b. 1916 Portsmouth RD	b. 1918 Portsmouth RD	b. 1919 Portsmouth RD	b. 1923 Portsmouth RD	b. 1928 Portsmouth RD
	m. Arthur T WATKINS 1938 Portsmouth RD [FreeBMD]		m. Kathleen F A FENNELL 1948 Gosport RD [FreeBMD]
		d. 1918 Portsmouth RD, aged 0		d. 1923 Portsmouth RD, aged 0	d. 1928 Portsmouth RD, aged 0

Additional Information

Arthur Charles may or may not have been born Alfred Charles. In 1912, he married (as Arthur Charles), giving his father as Charles, a Naval Pensioner. I cannot find anyone called arthur Charles son of Charles, so official documents may not be accurate in this case. Arthur Charles served for many years in the Royal Navy, serving aboard HMS Europa, among many other vessels, just before the First World War. His Naval record states that he was born on 21 July 1888 at Lambeth, London, and that before he joined up he had been a coachman. He married and settled his family down in Portsmouth, and was always known as Arthur; but when he obtained his birth certificate in 1949, he discovered that not only was his name really Alfred, but he was two years older than he had believed. A local newspaper told the story in 1962, when Arthur and Mabel celebrated their Golden Anniversary in Botley, Hampshire, and gave the reason for the discrepancy as a result of his mother's confusion between his father Alfred and himself. So was father Alfred really Alfred Charles? Or did the authorities get it wrong and send him the birth certificate for little Alfred Charles who died a year later? Nevertheless, when he died, the death certificate read Alfred Charles.

Other interesting details given in the newspaper report are that he served during the Boer War, serving with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry, and met Lord Baden Powell at the Relief of Mafeking. The Devon connection certainly fits in as Arthur was found as a Cattleman in Devon in the 1901 Census.

I am indebted Pauline Gale who provided the research and the story of Arthur Charles, R.N.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: WORTING1
Family Group: worting047