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 1875 - 1921 (46 years)
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| Name |
Charles William Padfield |
| Prefix |
Reverend |
| Birth |
1875 |
Paulton, Somerset, England, UK  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
4 Jul 1875 |
Paulton, Somerset, England, UK |
Address:
Holy Trinity Church, Paulton, Somerset, England, UK |
| Death |
14 Oct 1921 |
Belgian Congo |
- Charles William Padfield of the Congo Balolo Mission, Ikau, Belgian Congo died 14 October 1921 at the age of 46 on SS Ambleve on the River Congo giving probate to Norah Eliza Padfield his widow.
He taught at a missionary school. There is a book about him called Charles Padfield: A Life Spent for God and Congo-Land.
Charles Padfield was a Congo Balolo Mission missionary who gave evidence to the Congo Commission of Enquiry into the atrocities committed towards Congolese workers by white rubber plantation bosses and their sentries.
The Commission was a body that King Leopold II, King of the Belgians and owner of the Congo Free State Territories, had been forced to establish in 1905 to investigate the cruelty against native Congolese rubber workers.
Padfield was accepted for the Congo Balolo Mission in 1903 and died of rheumatic fever in 1921.
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| Probate |
17 Jun 1922 |
London, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Person ID |
I38838 |
Lasbury Family |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
Joseph David Padfield
b. 1853, Paulton, Somerset, England, UK
d. 11 Jan 1929, Paulton, Somerset, England, UK (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Hannah Mary Milsom
b. 1851, Radstock, Somerset, England, UK
d. 1935, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, UK (Age 84 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Dec 1874 |
Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
Address:
St. Lukes Church, Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, |
| Family ID |
F15356 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Wife |
Norah Eliza Toppin
b. 21 Mar 1884, Dulwich, Surrey, England, UK
d. 1971, Southend, Essex, England, UK (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
1910 |
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK |
| Family ID |
F15359 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2024 |
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 | Birth - 1875 - Paulton, Somerset, England, UK |
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| Baptism - Address:
Holy Trinity Church, Paulton, Somerset, England, UK - 4 Jul 1875 - Paulton, Somerset, England, UK |
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 | Marriage - 1910 - Brighton, Sussex, England, UK |
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 | Death - 14 Oct 1921 - Belgian Congo |
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