Biography of Charlotte Fisher (Charlotte High)

Born on 13 March 1848 & baptised 2 April 1848 in Reedham, Norfolk. In the 1851 census she's living in Reedham with her parents James (30) & Ann (29), sisters Mary Ann (8), Elizabeth (5), & Hannah (8 months), and a lodger Samuel Sexton (17). The family are listed as agricultural labourers (both parents & the lodger).

By 1861 age 14 she's left home and is a house servant for George (town missionary) & Annia Monteith, at Apsley House, Apsley Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In the 1871 census she's a nurse at 15 Cavendish Place, Marylebone, London, working for Sydney Ruger (a physician) & his family. While at Cavendish Place, Charlotte married Henry Fisher (a fishmonger living at 78 Great Portland Street, Marylebone) on 27 April 1873 at All Souls, Marylebone, London.

In the 1891 census Charlotte is working for Sarah E Amory (a lady of independent means) as housekeeper at 37 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, living with her husband Henry (42, now a butcher), son Henry (4), and daughter Charlotte (2), with Ethel Spurgeon (10) listed as a visitor. After her sister Sarah's family fell on hard times in 1885, she arranged for Robert & Sarah Spurgeon's family to come to Battersea, London (see/hear Charles Spurgeon's account).

In the 1901 census she's still a housekeeper at 37 Devonshire Place, with her son Henry (14). By 1911 she's Sarah Amory's companion at 37 Devonshire Place, and her daughter Charlotte (22) is a housemaid.

Her son Henry died in Belgium in 1917 during WWI: 391197, 2nd/9th Bn., London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). At the time Charlotte was living at 155 Westbourne Terrace, London.

She died in Brentford early in 1922, age 74.