Charles Kingston

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Charles was the third son (4th child) of William and Ann Kingston and was born on the 1st of February 1844. He was reared on his parents farm at Bream Creek. )n the 12th of August 1869, at the age of 25 years, he married Mary Jemima Payne, who was the elder daughter of Charles and Mary (nee Richardson) Payne. She was only eight years when her mother died after giving birth to a stillborn daughter 0n the 20th of July 1860. Charles Payne died in 1867 leaving Mary Jemima an orphan at 14 years of age. When Mary Jemima married Charles Kingston she was only aged 16 and eight months. They had a family of twelve children, three of whom died as infants and another died during the diptheria epidemic in 1893, aged three years.Charles became a successful farmer at Bream Creek where his property was known as "Southend". About 1894 he had a new house erected on his property. This was recorded in the diary of his niece, Kate Harvey, on one of her visits to her parents home of "Pleasant View". She wrote - "I called and saw Uncle Charley today. His new house is comming along nicely.
Charles brought his first car in 1911 and was instructed by the salesman how to drive it. When the salesman left Charles went for a drive but couldn't remember how to stop, so, after shouting for the car to stop, he ran it into a tree.Mary Jemima died on the 14th of January 1920 in her 68th year and Charles on the 31st of October 1922, aged 79 years.