Charles Percy according to legend was supposed to have sold the 'De Brandeleigh' sword that was supposed to have come over in the Norman Conquest. However according to S.J.E.Bayly it did exist, but was a rapier!
1861 Census 144 High Street St George’s Southwark RG 9/327/62 page 37
Sarah BESAR? wife mar 38 Linen Draper’s wife b Alcaster Warwick
Edwin SMITH unm 39 Linen Draper’s assistant b Ashford Kent
Thomas M RODGERS unm 26 Linen Draper’s assistant b Pembroke
George BIXBY unm 25 Linen Draper’s assistant b Shefford Bedford
Henry BUTTRESS unm 26 Linen Draper’s assistant b Ellesmere Shropshire
Charles P BRADLEY 20 Linen Draper’s assistant b Hereford
John COLLIER 18 Linen Draper’s assistant b Romford Essex
Thomas UNDERWOODunm 24 Light Porter b Hanover Square
Edward MOON 15 Linen Draper’s apprentice b Beeston Nottham?
Mary A E DAVILunm 28 servant b Southwark Surrey
1871 census 175 High st.Watford RG10/1381/80 page 49
Charles P Bradley 30 Draper (Master) employing 2 men) b Hereford
Emma Bradley, wife, age 29, b.St.Neots Hunts
Frederick J.C. son, age 2 b Watford
Emma K.A. daughter age 1 month born Watford
Elizabeth Newman, mother-in-law, widow, age 67, wife of grocer,b. Hunts
Thomas W.Beveridge, apprentice age 17, b.Watford
Charles G. Mason, assistant, age 24, b. Hunts.
Ellen Gristwood, servant, age 13 b. Herts
1881 Census 2 Vine St St Helier York Hotel RG 11/5610
Charles P Bradley mar 40 Commercial Traveller b England
1881 census 60 Upham Park rd Chiswick RG 11/1352/48 page 13
Emma BRADLEY head mar 39 Traveller’s wife b Hunts St Neots
George BRADLEY son 12 scholar b Herts Watford
Kate BRADLEY daughter 10 scholar b Herts Watford
Florence BRADLEY daur 8 scholar b Herts Watford
Elizabeth BRADLEY daur 7 scholar b Herts Watford
Bessie BRADLEY daur 5 scholar b Herts Watford
Walter BRADLEY son 3 b Herts Watford
Herbert BRADLEY son 8 mo b Midx Turnham Green
Agnes NICHOLSON unm general servant domestic b Lancs Dalton in Furness
1891 Census 13 Hermitage Road Stoke Newington RG 12/179
Charles P BRADLEY Head mar 50 Agent Providence Assn of London Insur b Hereofrd
Emma BRADLEY wife mar 49 b Hunts St Neots
Emma K A BRADLEY daur 20 Draper’s assistant b Herts Watford
Eliz.th A M BRADLEY daur 17 b Herts Watford
Walter P C BRADLEY son 13 schoolboy b Herts Watford
Herbert S N BRADLEY schoolboy b Midx Chiswick
1901 Grongar? House, Canterbury Road, Margate RG13/821
5 with Emma
1870 in direstory under”commercial” appears at 175 High St , in 1878 also at Rickmansworth, by 1882 he has gone
104October 1879 Jane Newman was working at her uncle's shop. She was found drowned in the river, and Charles was accused of treating her so badly that she had committed suicide. An inquest returned an open verdict, but people were so incensed that they rioted for two nights running, as many as 2000 people gathering. Jane Newman's friend Mrs. Haywood was asked at the inquest if Charles spoke kindly to Jane; her answer was that she had 'never heard him speak kindly to anyone.'
ARCHIVE MATERIAL- detailed accounts [photocopied] from the Watford Observer 11 oct 1879, 18 oct 1879, and book "history of Watford'.
brief original cuttings in Margaret Sims book.