William Charlesworth known as Captain Charlesworth lived in a house on Ferry Road called Saxon Villa. Saxon obviously had some meaning for him as he was the captain of a barque called Royal Saxon and one of his sons was called William Saxon Charlesworth. Captain Charlesworth died in 1875 from an axe wound which he received while watching his men cut down a tree. His friends were upset when the police stopped the funeral because there hadn’t been an inquest. Dr Frankish had signed the death certificate stating that the cause of death was erysipelas. I had to google it and these days it would be treated with antibiotics.
William Saxon Charlesworth was a civil engineer who died in Wellington in 1929. He is unlikely to be the William Charlesworth who was admitted to hospital in 1920 after cutting his throat but you never know as this William Charlesworth did recover.
Frederick Thoms Charlesworth died in 1891 aged 23 and he was a keen sportsman.
Captain Charlesworth was occasionally offside with the council and there was a land dispute at one stage.
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