(Hyrcanus) Charles Hendy
was the father of THOMAS HENDY and therefore the great-grandfather of WILLIAM HENRY FLUEN.
(Hyrcanus) CHARLES HENDY was born 28. Dec 1818 in Andover, Hampshire. He was the son of THOMAS HENDY (1779-1849) and MARTHA EARL (1776-1836), who married in Andover, Hampshire on 16. April 1803.
According to the UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893, CHARLES' father, THOMAS HENDY, was 1806 a freeholder of a place named White Birch, Andover. Census 1841, however, states that he was a bricklayer, then. But what had happened to his property in the meantime can be only assumed. Reasons could be perhaps found in the depression in agriculture after the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), which lasted until 1836 and destroyed nearly the industry. This depression was so severe that landlords as well as tenants suffered financial ruin. So also the the Hendy family could have been affected by it and had to deal with consequences after a fashion.
NOTE: 'Freehold' means absolute ownership of land (technically of real property which means land and all immovable structures attached to it) or at least the closest thing to absolute ownership you can get as technically all land in England belongs to the Crown. A freeholder holds their land in fee simple from the crown in perpetuity. The key point is that no money or service was owed by a freeholder to the crown or any other overlord.
The family of CHARLES' mother, MARTHA EARL, was deeply rooted in Hampshire and can be traced back to the mid of the 17th century. Her father, JONATHAN EARL (1737-1819), served during the "Seven Years War" in the 4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot and took part in the capture of Guadeloupe (1759), capture of Martinique (1762) and St. Lucia (1762). (St Dunstan's in Fleet Street, London by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842. The view is to the west and Temple Bar can be seen at the bottom of the street.)
(Hyrcanus) CHARLES HENDY was born 28. Dec 1818 in Andover, Hampshire. He was the son of THOMAS HENDY (1779-1849) and MARTHA EARL (1776-1836), who married in Andover, Hampshire on 16. April 1803. According to the UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893, CHARLES' father, THOMAS HENDY, was 1806 a freeholder of a place named White Birch, Andover. Census 1841, however, states that he was a bricklayer, then. But what had happened to his property in the meantime can be only assumed. Reasons could be perhaps found in the depression in agriculture after the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), which lasted until 1836 and destroyed nearly the industry. This depression was so severe that landlords as well as tenants suffered financial ruin. So also the the Hendy family could have been affected by it and had to deal with consequences after a fashion.
NOTE: 'Freehold' means absolute ownership of land (technically of real property which means land and all immovable structures attached to it) or at least the closest thing to absolute ownership you can get as technically all land in England belongs to the Crown. A freeholder holds their land in fee simple from the crown in perpetuity. The key point is that no money or service was owed by a freeholder to the crown or any other overlord.
The family of CHARLES' mother, MARTHA EARL, was deeply rooted in Hampshire and can be traced back to the mid of the 17th century. Her father, JONATHAN EARL (1737-1819), served during the "Seven Years War" in the 4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot and took part in the capture of Guadeloupe (1759), capture of Martinique (1762) and St. Lucia (1762). (St Dunstan's in Fleet Street, London by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842. The view is to the west and Temple Bar can be seen at the bottom of the street.)
He returned home in July 1764. On 25. Jan. 1765, it's documentated in the UK, Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Regimental Registers of Pensioners 1713-1882 that he was disabled in his left leg.
CHARLES' parents married in Andover, 17. Apr 1803. Both had nine children:
(1) John Hendy (1804-1870) & Ann Day
(2) James Saul Hendy (1806-1870) & Maria Harriskind & Ann Fay
2.1 James Charles Hendy (1831-1889) & Jane Wallis; emigrated to Australia(2) James Saul Hendy (1806-1870) & Maria Harriskind & Ann Fay
2.2 Harriet Hendy (1836-1911) & Ebenezer
Knapton
2.3 John Hendy (1840-1924); emigrated to Australia
2.4 George Hendy (1842-1918); emigrated to Australia and married 1866 Caroline Mallis in Victoria
2.5 Thomas James Hendy (1860-1931), emigrated to Australia and married 1885 Annie Bares in Victoria
NOTE: James Saul Hendy was an ancestor of Harold Edward Winch (1907-1993), a known politican in British Columbia, Canada. He and his father, Ernest Edward Winch (1879-1957) had formed the oldest father-son parliamentary duo in British Commonwealth history.
(3) Harriet Hendy (1808-1862) & Edward Catherall
(4) Elizabeth Hendy born in Andover on 11. Aug 1810
(5) Thomas Hendy (1812-1888) & Sarah Rolfe
5.1 Henry Thomas (Tom) Hendy (1856-1875)
5.2 Charles Hendy (1858-1918) & Harriet Sibley
5.3 William Rolfe Hendy christened in Andover, 17 Feb 1861.
5.4 Frederick James Earle Hendy (1864-1928) & Mary Ann Pottle
(6) Constantine Hendy (1815-1835)
(7) HYRCANUS CHARLES HENDY (1818-1857) & MARY GRACE
7.1 Charles Lewis Hendy (1849-1894) married to Eleanor Tarrant nee Ford
7.2 THOMAS HENDY married to ELIZA FLUEN; both were parents of THOMAS HENDY FLUEN
(8) Tabitha Hendy (1818-1888) & Thomas Birch & Daniel Goats
(9) David Hendy (1821-1891) & Tabitha Ponting
9.1 Mary Hendy (1847-1903) & Charles Tester Parsonage
9.1 David Ponting Hendy (1849-1901)
9.2 Emily Elizabeth Hendy (1852-1919)
NOTE: David Ponting Hendy, was a printer and author in England end of the 19th century ('Thirty-Six Reasons for Believing in Everlasting Punishment', Marshall Bros, 1887).
(Hyrcanus) CHARLES HENDY hissend married MARY GRACE (1824-1899) at St Dunstan in the West (see above), London on
23. December 1847 witnessed by Charles' brother and sister-in-law, James Saul and Maria Hendy nee Harriskind.
He was a police officer (Metropolitan Police; registered as Charles Hendy, #19613) in the year of his marriage and Sergeant Police in 1851. "I remember that in our house we had a big chest where old police equipment was stored. I loved to play with it. My grandmother only told me that it belonged to Grandad. Therefore, I thought for a long time, she meant my grandfather and not my grandfather's grandfather, until I realized that top hats, rattles, wooden truncheons and swords from service were at the latest by the mid to late 19th century. Unfortunately, nobody knows, however, where it has gone."
CHARLES HENDY, like others of the London Metropolitan Police, had interrupted his police service in 1854, to join the forces and to do his service in the Crimean War (1853-1856) supporting the army, which was short of soldiers them days. The UK, Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949, states that he was part of the 44th East Essex Foot Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Division, Regimental Number 3711. This regiment was reconstituted and landed at Varna, Bulgaria in summer 1854 for service in the Crimean War. It served under General Sir Richard England in the 3rd Division and saw action at the Battle of the Alma in September 1854, the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and the Siege of Sevastopol, which lasted from September 1854 until September 1855 (see painting detail of Franz Roubaud's panoramic painting (1904), "The Siege of Sevastopol"). According to the Police Register CHARLES HENDY resigned officially on the 15. Feb 1856, one day after he was transfered to Grove Hall Asylum (UK Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912). Consequently, it can be assumed that he came home at about that time and participated in all three battles mentioned above.
About reasons of his admission to the asylum can be only assumed, but he probably suffered of what we would call these days a "posttraumatic stress disorder", because Grove Hall was a military asylum for discharged military members by 1856, where the War Office sent soldiers and veterans, who became insane during their military service in Crimea.
(Hyrcanus) Charles Hendy died finally in Grove Hall Asylum, London on 15. Nov 1857.