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While searching old newspaper articles for family research I came across this letter in the Birmingham Daily Post, Tuesday May 21 1861 about the grave of Charles Reece Pemberton who died in 1840 age 50 and is buried in Key Hill Cemetery.
J.C.A of 22 Lodge Road had wrote to the paper urging people that remembered “Poor Pemberton” to visit his grave to see the epitaph written by Mr. J. Fox, MP before time and neglect obliterated it. He also suggests that a monument should be placed by the grave.
As I had never heard of Charles Reece Pemberton I decided to do a bit of research.
Charles Reece Pemberton was born in Wales but spent some of his childhood at a “Dame School” in Birmingham. At 15 he became an apprentice to his Uncle in Birmingham. When he was 17 his uncle sent him to buy some stamps – the stamp-seller did not give him enough change and it seems his Uncle accused him of taking the money and Pemberton ran away. His life after this changed dramatically – he was kidnapped, had times of hardship, travelled the world and became an actor and Shakespearean Lecturer. He was ill for some time before he died, but he still continued to travel and hold lectures until he returned to the house of a brother in Birmingham whose daughters kindly tended him to his last.
J.C.A of 22 Lodge Road had wrote to the paper urging people that remembered “Poor Pemberton” to visit his grave to see the epitaph written by Mr. J. Fox, MP before time and neglect obliterated it. He also suggests that a monument should be placed by the grave.
As I had never heard of Charles Reece Pemberton I decided to do a bit of research.
Charles Reece Pemberton was born in Wales but spent some of his childhood at a “Dame School” in Birmingham. At 15 he became an apprentice to his Uncle in Birmingham. When he was 17 his uncle sent him to buy some stamps – the stamp-seller did not give him enough change and it seems his Uncle accused him of taking the money and Pemberton ran away. His life after this changed dramatically – he was kidnapped, had times of hardship, travelled the world and became an actor and Shakespearean Lecturer. He was ill for some time before he died, but he still continued to travel and hold lectures until he returned to the house of a brother in Birmingham whose daughters kindly tended him to his last.