Miss Hinds
(1841-1915)
27 June 1861

Volume 4, page 140, sitting number 4632.

Born in 1841, Margaret Emmeline Hinds was the only daughter of the Reverend John Thomas Hinds, the Rector of Pulham in Dorset, and his wife Margaret Dorothea. She was baptised at Pulham on 11 April 1841. 

On 9 July 1863 ‘Margaret Emmeline, only daughter of the Rev. J.T. Hinds, MA, rector of Pulham, and JP for the county of Dorset,’ [married] ‘Charles Castle, Esq., of Westgate Tower, Canterbury, Captain [in the] East Kent Militia’ [Kentish Gazette, 14 July 1863). 

When the census was taken in 1871 Margaret was visiting her father and brother at Pulham. 

She and her husband appear on the 1881 census living at Hawford House, near Claines in Worcestershire. The household included seven servants (one of them a butler), with a coachman, groom and gardener living nearby. Charles Castle gave as his profession ‘High Sheriff of Worcestershire [and] Deputy Lieut[enant].’

Charles Castle died, aged 55, at Hawford House on 18 April 1885, leaving an estate valued at £13,475. 

In 1901 Margaret was a widow living at Hawford House with eight servants. Also present on the night of the census were granddaughter Dorothy Castle (aged 4) and grandson Arthur Castle (aged 2). These were the children of Margaret’s son, Captain Norton Clowes Castle; their mother Florence Anne née Blake had died the previous year. 

Margaret Emmeline Castle died, aged 74, on 13 March 1915 at Hawford in Worcestershire. She left an estate valued at £103,689.