Author: CHARLES, Adam
Biography:
CHARLES, Adam (c. 1812-1886: ancestry.co.uk)
He was likely the Adam Charles born in Gartly, Aberdeenshire, to John Charles and his wife Jannet Chalmers. If so, he was baptised on 24 Apr. 1812. His father was a crofter and Adam worked as a herder, having little or no formal education. He was apprenticed to a weaver at Clatt, Aberdeenshire, where he later operated his own loom. By the time of the 1851 Census he was working as a weaver in Bogfountain (near Huntly in Aberdeenshire). He married Mary Murray although no record has been located; they had at least two daughters. Adam Charles tried his hand at other occupations: the 1861 Census records that he was a dealer in tea and tobacco, in 1871 he was a crofter, and in 1881 he was a postman. Walker adds that he was a fine musician and that he died in July 1886. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Feb. 2022; William Walker, A Bibliography of Local Poetry to 1860 [1887]) SR