Charlotte Wall

Charlotte Barnfield is the great-grandmother of Francis Earl Wall (Charlotte Barnfield, Thomas James Wall, Robert Yates Wall, Francis Earl Wall).

Charlotte Barnfield was born in 1799 in Horsley, Gloucestershire, England. Both her parents were from nearby mill owning families and would have been known to one another. They also worshipped together at Shortwood Baptist Church. 

Both her father and her mother's father owned mills and are both mentioned in this book: Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale. See Ch. 1; Community of the Vale, pg. 27, for the specific mention of her father, Edward Barnfield. See also Ch. 9; Secularization and the Shortwood Baptist Church for the specific mention of her mother's father (John Blackwell). 

Charlotte Barnfield married Thomas Edward Wall in the Church of England (COE) parish of Stonehouse at St. Cyr in 1832, in Stroud, Gloucestershire. 

Charlotte was employed at a school for young ladies in     She may have owned the school.

Her husband was employed 

Charlotte arrived in New York City aboard the Gladiator on 4 Jan 1840 with four children. Her husband Thomas had arrived 18 months earlier aboard the Scotland on 15 Jun 1838. They had 2 more children born in Ontario, Canada in 1841 and 1844. They migrated to Michigan and were in Detroit by 1860. 

In addition to her husband's painting and decorating business, Charlotte and Thomas owned a two-story boarding house in the Bricktown neighborhood where there as many as 20 boarders including family members. 

Charlotte's husband, Thomas Edward Wall died in 1869 at the young age of 60 and she went on to live another 14 years as his widow, continuing to run the boarding house. At the age of 82 she moved to a home nearby with her spinster daughter and died at 83. 

Charlotte Barnfield Wall died in 1883 in Detroit and was buried next to Thomas at Elmwood Cemetery. I located their graves which were not visible beneath the cemetery turf and edged the plot. 

Edward Barnfield

Edward Barnfield, b. abt. 1765. A transciption of his Will:

In The Name Of God, Amen I, Edward Barnfield, of Watledge in the parish of Minchinhampton in the county of Gloucester, ____ being of weak health but of sound disposing mind memory and understanding and duly considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time I have I do make publish & declare my last will & testament in manna & ____ following heir. First I will order & direct that all my just debts funeral and testamentary or _____ be fully paid & discharged by my Trustees & _____ _____ after ______ out of my personal Estate as soon as _____ can be after my ______. I give & _____ unto my son Edward Blackwell Barnfield all & singular my messuage tenement or dwelling house Sands Spendits and premises with the appurts in & situated and being at Watledge aforesaid and uses in the profession of myself and Mr. Stowy as my tenant and which I lately puchased of Robert Bennett and Daniel Browning to hold to my said son Edward Blackwell Barnfield & his assigned for and during the time of his natural life (but impeachable for waste) and from & immediately after the determination of that Estate by forfiture or otherwise I give and devise the same premises with the Appurts to my friends Stephan Blackwell of Minnowsedge in the parish of Avening in the said county of Gloucester Clothier & Thomas Smith of Drupond in the parish of Horsley in the said county of Gloucester Clothier and to their heirs and assigns In Trust only to preserve & support the routing out remainders uses hereinafter limited from being defeated or destroyed & for that purpose to make Entries or bring astious as occasion may be required yet never thoughs to permit & suffer said Edward Blackwell Barnfield to _____ the rents issued & profits thereof for his life as aforesaid and from and immediately after his decease I give and devise the same premises with the appurts unto & to the use & _____ of all and every the child & children of him the said Edward Blackwell Barnfield lawfully to be begotten and to their heirs and assigns as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and in default of such issue then I give and devise the same premises with the appurts unto my said Trustees and the survivor of them his heirs and assigns In Trust to sell and dispose thereof either together or in parcels and by public auction or private Contract unto any person or persons who shall be willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof for the most money that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same and to make & _____ all such deeds conveyances and assurances in the same whatsoever as shall be requisite necessary for effectuating such Sale or Sales and I do hereby declare that the Reciept or Reciepts of my said Trustees or the survivor of them his heirs of assigns for the _____ to arise by such Sale or Sales shall be a good and sufficient discharge or discharges to the purchaser or purchasers thereof and that such purchaser or purchasers shall not afterwards be obliged to see to the application or accountable for the ____ misapplication or nonapplication thereof and I hereby will order and direct that my said Trustees or the survivor of them his heirs or assigns do and shall pay or apply the monies which shall arise from such Sale or Sales as aforesaid unto or for the use of my son Benjamin Barnfield and my daughters Sarah Gardiner Phebe Barnfield and Charlotte Barnfield and their ____ in equal shares & proportions the child or children of a deceased Son or Daughter taking only such share as their father or brother would have been entitled unto if living But subject nevertheless to the same restitution and provisions as are hereinafter _____ of & concerning their respective _____ hereinafter bequeathed out of the Residuum of my Real estate not herein before disposed of and also all my Personal estate and Effects whomsoever and whatsoever which I shall be seized or possessed of intrusted in or intitled unto at the time of my decease upon the Trusts & to & for Ends Intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned ____ & declared of & concouring the same Vis. That they the said Trustees or the survivors of them his heirs or assigns do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease sell dispose of & convey the residuum of my said real Estate in the same manner and subject to the same provisions for effectuating the same as are hereintofore mentioned with respect to the other part of my said real Estate and also do & shall with like convenient speed possess themselves of all & all in and revive such part & of my said personal Estate and Effects and shall be in _____ and not in money in the best manner and sell and dispose of my household Goods & furniture and utensils of household plate Linen Glass and China and all other my personal Estate and Effects not in money in the best manner and for the most money that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same and do and shall invest or place out my said ready Money and the Money so to be called in and ____ and to arise by the Sale of my said real and personal Estate as aforesaid as aforesaid or which shall otherwise their or other or any of their hands by virtue of this very will at In Trust upon Government or real Security or Securities and from time to time alter or vary such Security or Securities as occasion shall require and upon this further _____ that they my said Trustees or the survivor of them his ____ or ____ do & shall pay the Dividends Interest and Annual Proceeds of the sum of Two Thousand pounds part of the residuum of my said real and personal Estate and ____ the same shall be received unto or for the use of my said son for and toward his maintenance and Education or for putting him apprentice or otherwise placing him out with a view to any profession Trade or Employment as they or the survivor of them his ____ or ____ shall think fit until he shall attain his age of twenty one years or be married and from and immediately after he shall attain his said age of twenty one years or be married pay the said Principal sum of Two Thousand pounds or such part thereof or as they or the survivor of them his ____ or ____ shall think fit unto my said son Benjamin Barnfield for his advancement in life pay the Dividends Interest and Annual Proceeds of such part of the said Principal sum of Two Thousand pounds which shall not have been so advanced as aforesaid for and during the ____ of his natural life and from & immediately after his decease pay such part of the said Principal Sum of Two Thousand pounds as shall not have been so advanced as aforesaid unto and equally amongst all & every the child & children of my said son Benjamin Barnfield in equal shares & proportions if more than one and if but one then to that one wholly at their his or her ages or age of twenty one years together with the Interest thereof in the meantime & until the same shall borrow payable and be paid as aforesaid But in the case he shall leave no such child or children then the same shall go and be paid unto and between my other children and their issue in equal shares & proportions for the child or children of a deceased Son or Daughter taking only such share as his her or their Father or Brother would have been intitled unto if living and upon this further trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ or ____ shall pay and apply the Dividends Interest and Annual Proceeds of the sum of One Thousand pounds other part of the residuum of my said real and personal Estate as and when the same shall be received unto my said Daughter Sarah Gardiner and for her assigns for and during the term of her natural life for her sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of and without being in any wise subject to the Debts Disposition or Control of her present or any future husband and I hereby declare that the Receipt of my said Daughter shall notwithstanding _____ be a good and sufficient discharge to my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ or ____ for the same and from immediately after her decease pay the Dividends Interest and annual proceeds of the said Sum of One Thousand pounds as & when the same shall be received unto my Son in Law Thomas Gardiner & his assigns for and during the term of his natural life and from and immediately after his decease pay the said Principal sum of One Thousand pounds unto and amongst all and every the Child and Children of my said Daughter Sarah Gardiner in equal shares and proportions if more than one and if but one then to that one wholly at their his or her Ages or Age of twenty one years together with the Interest thereof in the meantime and until the same shall borrow payable and be paid as aforesaid but in case she shall leave no such Child or Children then the same shall go and be paid unto and between my other children and their issues in equal shares and proportions the Child or Children of a deceased Son or Daughter taking only such share as his her or their Father or Brother would have been intitled unto if living and upon this further trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ and ____ do & shall pay and apply the Dividends Interest and annual proceeds of the several sums of Two Thousand pounds and Two Thousand pounds furthur part of the Residuum of my said real and personal Estates as and when the same shall be received unto or for the use of my said Daughters Phabe Barnfield and Charlotte Barnfield for and towards their respective Maintenance and Education as they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ and _____ shall think fit and until my said Daughter shall be respectively married and from and immediately after their respective marriages provided they shall marry with the consent and Approbation of my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his _____ and _____ testified by some writing under their or his hands or hand pay the said Principal sums of Two Thousand pounds or such part thereof respectively as they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ or _____ shall think fit unto my said Daughters Phabe Barnfield and Charlotte Barnfield for their respective advancement in life and pay the Interest Dividends and annual proceeds of such part of the said Principal Sums of Two Thousand pounds respectively which shall not have been so advanced as aforesaid for and during the term of their respective natural lives for their sole and separate use and benefit exclusive of and without being in any wise subject to the Debts Disposition or Control of any husbands or husband with whom they or either of them they may hereafter intermarry and I hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of my said Daughter or Daughters shall not withstanding such _____ or ______ be a good and sufficient discharge or discharges for the same and from and immediately after their respective deceases pay such part of the said Principal Sums of Two Thousand pounds respectively which shall not have been so advanced as aforesaid unto and amongst and unto all and every the Child and Children of my said Daughters Phoebe Barnfield & Charlotte Barnfield respectively in equal shares & proportions if more than one and if but one then to that one wholly at their his or her ages or age of twenty one years together with the Interest thereof in the meantime and until the same shall become payable & be paid as aforesaid But in in case either of them the said Phoebe Barnfield or Charlotte Barnfield shall leave no such Child or Children then the same shall go & be paid unto & between my other children and their Issue in equal shares & proportions the child or children of a deceased Son and Daughter taking only such share as his her or their Father or Brother would have been intitled unto if living and upon this further Trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ___ and ____ do & shall pay unto Jim Garrison and William Gorwood the sum of twenty pounds each as a small acknowledgement for many years faithful services and the further sum of ten pounds each to buy mourning which I hereby will order and direct to paid to them respectively with the Calendar Months next of my decease And upon this further trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his ____ or ____ do & shall pay all the rest Residue & Remainder of the produce of my said Real and Personal Estate unto and between all my said Children and their Issue in equal Shares and proportions the Child or Children of a deceased Son or Daughter taking only such Share as his her or their Father or Brother would have been intitled unto if living I give devise and bequeath unto my said Trustees and the Survivor of them his heirs _____ ______ & Assigns all such messuages Sands Terwinento Geredito & premises as are now vested in me by way of Mortgage in order to enable them with the greater case convenience to recover receive and get in the money ____ thereon for the purposes of this my will and I give devise and bequeath unto my said Trustees and the Survivors of them his Heirs _____ _____ & Assigns all such messuages Sands Tenemonto Gaedito & premises as are now vested in me upon any Trust or Trusts to hold the same to my said Trustees and the Survivor of them his Heirs ____ _____ or Assigns upon the trusts asserting the same and I do hereby ____ _____ and direct that my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his Heirs _____ ______ or Assigns shall not be answerable or accountable the one for the other or others of them and by no means for involuntary Issues and that they shall respectively be allowed all their Costs Charges Damages & Expenses to be occasioned by the Execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed by virtue or in pursuance of this my Will And Lastly I do hereby make nominate constitute and appoint the said Stephen Blackwell and Thomas Smith joint _____ of this my last will & Testament hereby revoking all other wills by me at any time heretofore made In witness whereof I have to this my last will & Testament contained in six sheets of paper to each of the first five sheets subscribed my hand and to this the Sixth and last sheet subscribed and set my hand and seal this hereby second day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen Edward E Barnfield (SS) Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Edward Barnfield as and for his last will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request & in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto Nath. Reeve Danl. Saunders Joseph Latham Proved at London 3 September 1814 before the Judge by the oaths of Stephen Blackwell and Thomas Smith the ____ to ____.