George CHRISTOPHER^{[1, 2]}

1779 - 1861  (81 years)

• Name	George CHRISTOPHER
  Relationship	with Brian Mark BUSSIERE
  Born	6 Oct 1779	Bloomsbury, London, England
  Christened	4 Jan 1780	St. Dunstan, Stepney, London, England   [3]
  	Father's occupation: Mariner Church address: High Street Home address: Ratcliff
  Gender	Male
  Census information	1841	Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, England
  No Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation BirthDate BirthPlace Age Gender Status Years Married Children Born Children Living Occupation Immigration Year Nationality Religion Comments 1 1 George Christopher 1781 60 2 1 Isabella Christopher 1811 30 3 1 George Christopher 1811 30 Surgeon 4 1 Arthur Christopher 1821 20 Wine merchant 5 1 Alfred Christopher 1821 20 6 1 Louisa Christopher 1826 15 7 1 Matilda Christopher 1826 15  Page:  23   Transcript ID is  dbid=9999&iid=b9xz_37
  Census information	1861	Chiswick, Middlesex, England
  No Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation BirthDate BirthPlace Age Gender Status Years Married Children Born Children Living Occupation Immigration Year Nationality Religion Comments 1 1 George Christopher Head 1780 Middlesex, England 81 M W Find holder Living on Chiswick Mall 2 1 Isabella F Christopher Daughter-in-law 1805 Middlesex, England 56 F S 3 1 Frances I Robinson Granddaughter 1839 22 F S 4 1 Henry A Cautley Grandson 1855 India 6 M S Scholar 5 1 Margaret A Bell Daughter 1802 Stepney 59 F W  PRO Class:  RG09  Piece:  780  Folio:  106  Page:  3   Transcript ID is  dbid=9999&iid=z2g0_97   Source Web Site: Findmypast
  Died	7 Apr 1861	Chiswick, Middlesex, England
  Buried	Old Chiswick Cemetery, Chiswick, England   [4]
  	Inscription: Isabella Frances Beloved wife of George Christopher Died March 12 1836 Aged 55 George Christopher Greatly beloved and lamented Died April7 1861 Aged 81
  Siblings	4 siblings
  1. Lieutenant John Thomas CHRISTOPHER, Royal Navy,   b. 11 Jul 1772, Durham, England ,   d. 20 Aug 1803, Crookhall County, Durham, England
  2. Captain Henry CHRISTOPHER, H.E.I.C.S.,   b. 18 Nov 1775, Durham, England ,   d. 11 Jul 1817, Calcutta, India
  3. Caroline CHRISTOPHER,   b. 24 Nov 1777, Durham, England ,   d. 22 Sep 1845
  4. Thomas CHRISTOPHER,   b. 17 Aug 1782, Camberwell, Surrey, England ,   d. 28 Jan 1818
  Person ID	I572	Bussiere Robinson | Brian's ancestors
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	William CHRISTOPHER,   b. 1734, Crookhall County, Durham, England ,   d. 1797  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Ann TATHAM,   b. 13 Oct 1743, Little Stainston County, Durham, England ,   d. 1784  (Age 40 years)
  Married	28 Apr 1765	Saint Giles Cripplegate, London, England   [5]
  Family ID	F171	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Isabella Frances ASHINGTON,   b. 1781,   d. 12 Mar 1836  (Age 55 years)
  Married	13 Dec 1800	Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England
  Children	1. Margaret Ashington CHRISTOPHER,   b. 21 Sept 1801, Chiswick, Middlesex, England ,   d. 4 Oct 1864  (Age 63 years)   2. William Thomas CHRISTOPHER,   b. 6 Oct 1802, Chiswick, Middlesex, England ,   d. 22 Apr 1858, Brighton, England  (Age 55 years)   3. Isabella Frances CHRISTOPHER,   b. 20 Jun 1804, Chiswick, Middlesex, England ,   d. 23 Oct 1898  (Age 94 years)   4. George Eumenes CHRISTOPHER, M.D.,   b. 7 Apr 1806,   d. 7 May 1842, Wiesbaden, Switzerland  (Age 36 years)   5. Caroline CHRISTOPHER,   b. 4 Feb 1808, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 16 Oct 1848, Brittania (Ottawa), Ontario  (Age 40 years)   6. Willoughby CHRISTOPHER,   b. 17 Oct 1810, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 6 Feb 1812, Bloomsbury, London, England  (Age 1 years)   7. Willoughby John CHRISTOPHER,   b. 22 Jun 1812, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 9 Feb 1813, Bloomsbury, London, England  (Age 0 years)   8. Emma Octavia CHRISTOPHER,   b. 1813, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 21 Oct 1870, Chiswick, Middlesex, England  (Age 57 years) + 9. Selina Maria CHRISTOPHER,   b. 23 Feb 1815, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 15 Dec 1896  (Age 81 years)   10. Arthur Anstey CHRISTOPHER,   b. 6 Oct 1817, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 20 Sept 1856, Chiswick, Middlesex, England  (Age 38 years)   11. Louisa Mary CHRISTOPHER,   b. 19 Oct 1819, London, England ,   d. 6 Apr 1855  (Age 35 years)   12. Reverend Canon Alfred Millard Wiliam CHRISTOPHER,   b. 20 Aug 1820, 14 Coram Street, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 10 Mar 1913, Chiswick, Middlesex, England  (Age 92 years) + 13. General Leonard Raisbeck CHRISTOPHER,   b. 26 Feb 1822, Bloomsbury, London, England ,   d. 1901, Middlesex, England  (Age 78 years)   14. Matilda Anne CHRISTOPHER,   b. 12 Oct 1823, London, England ,   d. 7 Jan 1863, New Zealand  (Age 39 years)
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2009
  Family ID	F170	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 6 Oct 1779 - Bloomsbury, London, England Christened - 4 Jan 1780 - St. Dunstan, Stepney, London, England Married - 13 Dec 1800 - Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England Census information - 1841 - Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, England Census information - 1861 - Chiswick, Middlesex, England Died - 7 Apr 1861 - Chiswick, Middlesex, England Buried - - Old Chiswick Cemetery, Chiswick, England  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		George Christopher
  		St-Dunstans Church - London.jpg
  		Selina Maria Christopher - India.jpg
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  Headstones		Christopher family gravestone
  		Christopher - Cautley plot On base of west side: The vault of GEORGE CHRISTOPHER, of this Parish. North side upper section: ISABELLA FRANCES the beloved wife of GEORGE CHRISTOPHER died March 12th 1836 aged 55 GEORGE CHRISTOPHER greatly loved and lamented died April 7th 1861 aged 81 Thy will be done. North side lower section: LOUISA MARY TATHAM their daughter died April 6th 1855 aged 36 ARTHUR ANSTEY their son died Sept. 20th 1856 aged 38 MARGARET ASHINGTON BELL, widow their eldest daughter died October 4th 1864 aged 63. East side: ALFRED WILMOT son of Rev. A.M.W. and MARIA F. CHRISTOPHER died Sep. 15th 1854 aged 10 months SELINA BATHURST THOMSON died October 3rd 1858 aged 15 years grandchildren of GEORGE & ISABELLA F. CHRISTOPHER. South side upper section: EMMA OCTAVIA CAUTLEY wife of Major General CAUTLEY and daughter of GEORGE and ISABELLA CHRISTOPHER died October 21st 1870 aged 57 Major General GEORGE CAUTLEY Formerly of 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry died October 1st 1881 aged 72. South side lower section: Major General WILLIAM BEVERIDGE THOMSON, C.B. late Commissary Gen: of the Bengal Army died Jan. 21st 1863 aged 53 SELINA MARIA THOMSON widow of the above 5th daughter of GEORGE & I.F. CHRISTOPHER died 15th Dec. 1896 aged 81 ISABELLA FRANCES second daughter of GEORGE & ISABELLA FRANCES CHRISTOPHER born 20th June 1804, died 23rd Oct. 1898 "Ever with the Lord". 1 Thess: IV. 17. West side: Erected 1872 in loving memory of those interred in the Vault whose names are inscribed thereon. North side of extension: Sacred to the memory of Major General LEONARD RAISBECK CHRISTOPHER (Bengal Staff Corps) seventh and youngest son of GEORGE CHRISTOPHER born 26. Feb. 1822, died 26. Sept. 1901 Also of ANN EMMA widow of the above who passed to her rest 27. Feb. 1905 in her 78th year. Plot: Christopher Family plot

  
  

  Histories		George Christopher.jpg
  		George Christopher - Family Tree - 1853 A copy of a document written by George Christopher to outline his family tree.

  
  

  Baptism - Birth Docs

  Alfred MW Christopher Baptism St George the Martyr Middlesex London, England Home: 41 Great Ormond Street

  
  

  Census » Slide Show		1851 Census - England - George Christopher Location: 7 Chiswick Mall, London, England George Christopher - widower - 1780 - 71 yrs old - retired wine merchant - born Stepney, Middlesex Isabella F Christopher - daughter - unmarried - 1805 - 46 yrs old - born Stepney, Middlesex Emma Q Cautley - daughter - married - 1814 - 37 yrs old - born Bloomsbury, Middlesex Proby L Cautley - grandson - 1846 - 5 yrs old - born East Indies William T Cautley - grandson - 1847 - 4 yrs old - born at sea on route from East Indies Two servants: Sarah Shaw and Laetitia Lering Nurse: Charlotte Tebbutts
  		1841 Census England - George Christopher Location Paragon Road, Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet George Christopher - 60 yrs old Isabella Christopher - 30 yrs old George Christopher - 30 yrs old - surgeon Arthur Christopher - 20 yrs old - wine merchant Alfred Christopher - 20 yrs old Louisa Christopher - 15 yrs old Matilda Christopher - 15 yrs old
  		1861 Census - George Christopher Chiswick Mall George Christopher - Head - Widow - Fund holder - Middlesex Isabella F. Christopher - Daughter - 56 Frances J. Robinson - Grand-daughter - 22 Henry A. Cautley - Grand-son - 6 - Scholar - India Margaret A. Bell - Daughter - 59 - Stepney Elizabeth Savage - Nurse - 44 - Nurse - Claremont, Sussex Mary Goke - Servant - 40 - Cook - Turnham Green, Middlesex Mary A. Smith - Servant - 17 - Housemaid - Essex

  
  

• Notes

  The Christopher Coat-of-Arms was granted to George in 1824. It includes a beaver, a chart of Chesterfield Inlet, NWT, Canada and an anchor. These three elements signify the key role that William Christopher, George's father played in the search for the North-West passage while Commodore of the Hudson's Bay Company fleet. George was a wine merchant. In the 1851 census, he is listed as a retired wine merchant. The interest in the firm had been passed on to the Tatham family. Christopher & Co., LTD. Christopher & Co. was not a distillery. It was a wine merchant company and famed as the oldest wine merchant in London. I managed to locate and correspond with Charles Crawford, a retired wine merchant at the time of this particular investigation. He expressed that he worked for a short time in the Jermyn Street office in the early 1970?s. Though having no knowledge of the company?s whisky endeavors, he expressed that the whisky inside would most likely have been produced by a major distillery and then bottled exclusively for or by Christopher & Co. As stated above, Christopher & Co. is reputed to be the oldest of its kind in London, and with this, it was difficult to pinpoint exactly when it began, though various documents have been located, all of which provide generous clues that point to one man: George Christopher (1779-1861), the son of William Christopher (1734-1797) and Ann Christopher, nee Tatham (1743-1784). William was a captain in the Hudson Bay Service of the Royal Navy. His wife, Ann, was a notable woman of fashion and well beloved. George Christopher is noted in the July 22, 1819 edition of the London Times as a wine merchant located on Great Coram Street. The Post Office Directory of 1829 records that Christopher was a wine merchant with a shop at 41 Great Ormond St, Holborn. The Spectator, which is a weekly British conservative magazine first published in 1828, indicates that on Friday, October 3, 1845 the wine merchant ?Christopher & Mackinlay? of Great Coram Street dissolved its partnership. Following this, there is noted evidence that Christopher & Co. advertised in the London Gazette in the mid 1850s. William Tatham, (born in 1834, the son of Meaburn Tathum who is the son of Ralph Tathum who is the brother of Ann Tathum?George Christopher?s wife) is registered in the Saxon History as being the Wine Merchant at 43 Pall Mall, also called ?Christopher & Co.? in 1851. However, another official public query dated January 6, 1912 offers the following regarding the Pall Mall address: ??Joseph Calkin, booksellers to the King, to build the house 118 (which has always been so numbered). It is therefore not without its irony that the house of Bvidd, imprisoned in 1810 in the name of the Army, should fall into the hands of an Army club a century later. I may note that the firm, on moving to 118, Pall Mall, became Calkin & Budd names that seem to come straight out of Dickens. These booksellers were followed during the fifties by the St. George Life and Title Assurance Company, which in turn was succeeded in 1863 by the old firm of wine merchants, Christopher & Co. It started in Mile End and was long established in Great Coram Street: it has now moved to 43, Pall Mall.? George Allen Ralph Tatham is listed in the Saxon History record as the Director of Christopher & Co. from 1893 until 1915. The record actually reads that George returned to London after a time in Germany in order to help his uncle William Tatham in the ?old family business, Christopher and Co. in 1884, and becoming director in 1893. He retired through ill health in 1915.? British Commonwealth archives record that Christopher & Co. was owned and operated at the 94, Jermyn Street address in the early part of the 20th Century, first by Harold John Henry Irish until the early 1950?s and then by Anthony Jamieson Haggie until the early 1970?s. [6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 2000, data as of January 2000). [S12] Family History Library, Batch #: M055763, Sheet #: , Source Call #: 0578821, 0597247, 0596921, 0596922 (Reliability: 3). [S51] Findmypast. London, Docklands and East End Baptisms, 1558-1933 X097/286 [S35] Find a Grave. Ancestry.com. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi. [S20] Marriage: William Christopher. [S90] Angelsportion.com.