| 4. | Christopher John King was born in Abt. 1846 in Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 11 Jun 1907 in 2 Leopold Road, St Andrew, Bristol, Gloucestershire (Jun 1907 Bristol GLS 6a 121 age 61). Other Events:
- Name: Christopher John Featherstone
- Name: John King
- Baptism: 28 Jun 1846, St Andrew, Clifton, Gloucestershire
- Residence: 1851, Southey's Paddock, Bedminster, Bristol
- Residence: 1861, Thatched House Lane, St George, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Occupation: 1871; stevedore
- Residence: 1871, 8 Sydney Row, Bedminster, Bristol
- Occupation: 1881; stevedore
- Residence: 1881, 1 Thorns Buildings, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Residence: 1883, 5 Queens Parade, Brandon Hill, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Occupation: 1891; ship owner
- Occupation: 1891; stevedore
- Residence: 1891, 4 Southern Way, Clifton Wood Road, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Residence: 1891, 5 Queens Parade, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Occupation: 1901; stevedore
- Residence: 1901, College Green Hotel, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Occupation: 1907; stevedore
- Residence: 1907
Notes:
Baptism solemnized in the Parish of Clifton in the City + in the County of Bristol in the Year 1846
June 28th Christopher John son of Christopher John + Jane Ann King of Hotwells labourer
1851 census HO107/1945/46/4
Southey's Paddock, Bedminster, Bristol
Christopher King head M 30 mason's lab Wiltshire, Marlboro
Jane King wife M 36 Somerset, West Monckton
Charles King son 10 scholar Bristol, Bedminster
John King son 4 scholar Bristol, Clifton
Samuel King son 2 Bristol, Bedminster
1861 census RG9/1724/25/15
Thatched House Lane, St George, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Christopher J King head M 34 general dealer Wiltshire
Jane Ann King head M 39 grocer Somerset, West Monken
Christopher J King son 14 scholar Gloucestershire, Bristol
Samuel James King son 12 scholar Gloucestershire, Bristol
Thomas Keniff boarder U 21 ships labourer Gloucestershire, Bristol
Sarah Wakefield serv 51 servant Gloucestershire, Bristol
Mary King visitor W 78 nurse Yorkshire, Audlan?
George Ranham lodger U 32 ships labourer Ireland
1865 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Clifton in the City and County of Bristol
October 9
Christopher John King minor bachelor stevedore of Clifton father Christopher John King stevedore
Harriet Tutton full age spinster of Clifton father John Tutton gardener
married in the Parish Church after banns
both signed in the presence of Christopher John King snr Mary Howerd and Annie Proctor
1871 census RG10/2505/98/21
8 Sydney Row, Bedminster, Bristol
Christopher J King head M 25 stevedore Clifton, Bristol
Harriett King wife M 25 stevedore's wife Bedminster, Bristol
Sarah J King dau 11mo Bedminster, Bristol
Lydia Bennett visitor U 16 Gloucestershire, St Georges
1881 census RG11/2481/61/25
1 Thorns Buildings, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Clara E Featherstone head M 29 tailorist machinist Worcester
Bertha Clara Featherstone dau 8 scholar Bristol, St George
Emily M K Featherstone dau 4 Bristol, Clifton
Christopher King Featherstone son 1 Bristol, Clifton
Charles King Featherstone son 3m Bristol, Clifton
Christopher J King visitor M 34 stevedore Bristol, Clifton
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey; Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files; Reference: J 77/291/8612.
Christopher John King a stevedore
Spouse Name: Harriet King
Petition Year: 1883
Type of Record: wife's petition
Divorce Court File Number: 8612
Filed 27 January 1883 by Harriet King now residing at 31 Thomas Street, Bristol the legal wife of Christopher John King now residing at 1 Thorne's Buildings, Clifton Wood, stevedore.
That they married 9 October 1865, cohabited and had issue
Sarah Jane born 10 April 1870
Lilly Annie born 17 September 1873
That in and since 1870 the said Christopher John King at Bristol and divers places committed adultery with diverse women and contradicted venereal disease and recklessly commuted the same to the petitioner.
That in and since 1871 Christopher John King habitually visited Clara Featherstone at 1 Thornes Building and cohabited with her and committed adultery with her.
On or about 27 February 1876 at 1 Thornes Building abused petitioner kicked her out of the building and threw her down stairs.
Since when he has constantly used violet and abusive language against petitioner
On 18 October 1878 at 8 Sydney Row threatens to cut throat, pushed her out of house at night. Several similar allegations including the threat of murder.
On frequent occasions since 8 July 1879 committed adultery with diverse women.
The petition is that his Lordship dissolve the marriage, give custody of the children the issue of the marriage to the petitioner and any other relief that the case may require.
Christopher John King's response
Is that he refutes the alleged cruelty. Refutes the adultery. States that Harriet King has committed adultery with Harry Winter and others. (he gives his address as 5 Queens Parade, Brandon Hill, Bristol)
Harriet then states she can't give the names of all the diverse women, one is called Blanche another Clare Webb.
No precise dates of the communication of venereal disease can be given, but once was shortly after marriage, once 11 years ago and once 9 years ago.
The petitioner visits Clara Featherstone daily and has residence of the house where she lives. He has continually visited her for some years past.
Christopher than states he will seek to proved Hariet from about November 1879 to September 1880 was living at 49 College Street where she was constantly visited by Harry Winter and other diverse men and committed adultery. On one occasion Harry Winter stayed all night, on another a sailor (other addresses and mens names given. Between 1st October 1880 and 31st December 1880 Harriet gave birth the a child of which the respondent is not the father.
Harriet then replies denying adultery.
Case: Dismissed 14 June 1883
6 March 1883 court ordered that Sarah Jane King and Lillie Ann King children of the petitioners stay at Miss Wright's school Totterdown, Somerset except Saturday to Monday and school holidays. During these periods they are to stay in the custody of Miss Proctor of 5 Queens Parade, Bristol. Both parents to have access to the children.
14 June case dismissed as no evidence of adultery found. Costs awarded against Christopher John King.
marriage certificate included with papers
1891 census RG12/1967/95/5
4 Southern Way, Clifton Wood Road, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire
C J King head M 44 stevedore Bristol
Emily Clara King wife M 39 Worcester
Bertha Clara King dau 18 scholar Bristol
Johnie King son 11 scholar Bristol
Charley King son 10 scholar Bristol
Mervyn King son 3 scholar Bristol
Alex King son 1 scholar Bristol
Annie Brimble serv U 19 domestic servant Somerset, Bath
1891 census RG12/1965/40/29
5 Queens Parade, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Christopher J King head M 44 ship owner Bristol
Sarah J King dau S 20 living on own means Bristol
Lily A King dau S 17 living on own means Bristol
Mary Procter aunt S 54 living on own means Somersetshire, Westminton?
Hester Packer serv S 17 domestic servant Bristol
1901 census RG13/2372/26/1
College Green Hotel, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Christopher King visitor 46 M stevedore employer Bristol, Gloucestershire
death registration index Christopher John King Jun 1907 Bristol GLS 6a 121 age 61
probate 1907
Christopher John King of the “Royal” hotel College-green Bristol stevedore died 11 June 1907 at 2 Leopold-road St. Andrew’s Bristol probate Bristol 2 August to Samuel James King stevedore and Edward Payne Press solicitor Effects £44790 10s. 1d.
C.J. King's
After two Hodder brothers died, their mother took charge of the firm, followed by her daughter, Eileen Hartly-Hodder, who already had a career as a teacher of speech and drama. She found it difficult to cope with both jobs, though she successfully chartered ships, engaged seamen as crews, and arranged passages to countries all over the world. In 1974, she sold out to C.J. King & Sons. Christopher John King set up in Prince Street in 1850 in what was then only just being recognised as a distinct trade, stevedoring.
Until then, ships' crews often discharged the cargoes themselves, but as the size of ships entering Bristol increased, stevedoring crews became the rule, unloading cargoes of wine, tobacco and timber, and when at last Avonmouth opened in 1877, C.J., with his son and his brother Samuel, opened an office and played a leading part in developing handling methods and machinery there.
One of his first inventions was The Gadget, a small vessel fitted with a steam winch and carrying rope and tackle which could be attached to the yard-arm of the ship to be discharged. Another first was banana handling: the first banana boat, the s.s. Port Morant, arrived at Avonmouth in March, 1901, and C.J. King's unloaded it. In 1907, 56,000 bunches were put on rail from the Elders and Fyffe steamship in only eight hours, when all the unloading was done by hand.
The company was also the first to install at Avonmouth in 1910 two Mitchell floating grain elevators, mechanical devices for transferring grain from ship to shore. During the Boer War, the cargoes discharged were guns and ammunition, and a decade later there was a mysterious Sunday morning meeting with the military on the Downs, followed by a never-explained embarkation and disembarkation of guns and transport, carefully timed by the watching brass hats.
The firm did not know it, but it was a rehearsal for the First World War. The firm had also invested in tugs, right from the beginning: the first was the Memmac, launched in 1859; it aroused hard feelings, and the tug was threatened by the Pill boatmen who made a living hauling ships bodily down the Avon. Merrimac's successor was a paddle driven tug which became well known to Bristolians in the 1880s.
When the 44 ton iron paddleboat, the Gem, arrived in Bristol on Whit Monday, 1883, citizens were offered a pleasure trip from Hotwells to Chepstow, fare Is. The Gem, launched in 1871, began work in the days of 'seeking', which was the privilege of towing windjammers as far out as Land's End, the English Channel and even Bantry Bay. Competition was fierce, and frequently lights would be doused in order to slip out westwards unnoticed by the rival tugs waiting in the darkness.
But with this underhand rivalry went a strict ethical code, and once a tug had spoken to her potential customer, the competitors left her severely alone. The King tugs became famous: two of them escorted the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert, when it arrived in Avonmouth in 1908 for the opening by King Edward VII of the Royal Edward Dock, and one of them worked in the Dardanelles in the First World War. King's was the first firm to operate motor tugs in the Bristol Channel, and when the second war came, they taught the American G.I.'s the art of stevedoring and handled vast amounts of food and petrol and ammunition which came into Avonmouth, while continually under air attack.
Salvage was another function carried out by the tugs; earliest record of one of the King tugs at the scene of an accident was in 1878, when the s.s. Gipsy ran aground at Black Rock Quarry, just past the Suspension Bridge, and broke her back. In the Great Fog of 1929, five large vessels ran aground in the Avon, but by the following afternoon, thanks to the tugs, the river was clear and back to normal. With the decline in shipping in recent years, King's has had to diversify, and one of their present subsidiaries is a joinery business which found a new role in the Falklands War, making transoms, decks and keels for assault craft. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/4629056829/
15 April 2014 Dale Fallon (dalefallon10@hotmail.com) Dear Paul Thanks for putting up your wonderful information about CJ King 1847-1907 in the Featherstone Project. My paternal grandmother was Hannah Elizabeth King born Bristol 1886. She was first cousin once removed to CJ King. Are you descended from CJ King? Are you or do you know of anyone interested in the King family? I have some pictures of CJ, his father and Charles (1880) and Mervyn S P King. Kind regards Dale Fallon
Baptism:
son of Christopher John + Jane Ann King
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age 4; relationship to head: son
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age 14; relationship to head: son
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age 25; relationship to head: head
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age 34; relationship to head: visitor
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age 44; relationship to head: head
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age 44; relationship to head: head
Residence:
Royal hotel College Green, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Christopher married Clara Emily Mason. Clara was born in 1851 in Worcester, Worcestershire (Jun 1851 Worcester WOR 18 605); died on 30 Dec 1905 in Randall Road, Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire (Mar 1906 Bristol GLS 6a 29). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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