On the Track of Great Uncle Charles

Great-uncle Charles died in St. Kitts at the age of eighteen. That much is clear from his tombstone in Christchurch churchyard:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

HENRY CHARLES GREENE

ESQUIRE

LATE OF NICOLA TOWN

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

ON THE 7TH DAY OF AUGUST 1840

IN THE I9TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Beside him lies his younger brother, William, my father’s father:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

WILLIAM GREENE

BORN JUNE 6TH 1824

DIED SEPTEMBER 18TH 1881

AT REST

William died on a visit to the family sugar estates, drawn back to St. Kitts forty years after the death of his brother. He had been there, a boy of sixteen, when his brother died, and he had been left for some time to run the estates on his own.