Charles Cousland Royle was born on 25 Nov 1858 at the Downs Hotel, Altrincham. Family spoken history maintains that Charles had to leave his boarding school, Sherborne in Dorset, at the age of 11; this has not yet been confirmed. He was an upholsterer, working for a furniture company, and married Frances (Fanny) Elizabeth Doherty (born in Manchester c.1858) at St Paul’s Church, Manchester, on 14 Dec 1880. In the marriage certificate Charles is described as a ‘Gentleman’. Before marriage Frances was a tailor and lived at 26 Leamington (or Kennington?) St, Greenheys, Manchester. After marriage they lived at 19 Blossom Avenue, Chorlton upon Medlock, then at 5 Crofton Street, Moss Side and lastly at 21 Parker Street, Moss Side. In later life Charles suffered from Parkinson’s disease and was visited daily by his son Edward Crisp Royle. He died on 15 Sept 1934 of Chronic Encephalitis
Lethargica surviving his wife by a few months. Their children were:
Edward Crisp |
Born 1886 |
Arthur Percy |
Born 1881 |
Frederick Nelson |
Born 1884 |
Harold Howard |
Born 1889 |
Amelia Isabel |
Date of birth not known |
Edward Crisp Royle was born on 31 October 1886 at 19 Blossom Avenue, Chorlton upon Medlock. He married Ada Coles, a milliner, on 14 August 1914 (having first courted her sister Elsie who died of TB at the age of 21); it would have been earlier but, first of all, Edward refused to have Charlotte Coles (Ada’s mother) to live with them (Ada’s sister, Emma, was persuaded to have Charlotte) and then the wedding was postponed because of the uncertainty of the coming war. Edward refused to postpone it any longer. They had planned to go to Ilfracombe for their honeymoon but, because of the war, went to St Anne’s instead. After the honeymoon they rented a house in Cecil Street, Rusholme, Manchester. By 1933 they had purchased their own
house in Withington on the edge of Fog Lane park. Edward was an
accountant and travelled to France and Holland on behalf of his
employer. He joined the local Civil Defence in WWII as he could not
serve in the forces because he was an asthmatic. Edward and Ada
had two children:
Harold |
Born 1915 |
Muriel |
Living |
Harold Royle was born in Rusholme, Manchester, on 22 June 1915
whist his father, Edward, went to get the midwife and Frances,
Edward’s mother; Ada delivered Harold by herself. Harold attended
William Hulme grammar school then joined the Broughton Copper
Works at the age of 16. He went to night school at the then
Mechanics Institute (now the Faculty of Technology of Manchester
University). The Broughton Copper Works was taken over by ICI
and became part of Yorkshire Imperial Metals; in time Harold rose
to the position of Managing Director. He married Gladys Royle on
2 May 1942. During the 1940s he shared an office with Charles Cowley and the two
families became life-
Harold & Gladys’s two daughters are:
Harold and Gladys had two daughters:
Sally Ann (on the left in the photograph) |
Susan Patricia (on the right in the photograph) |