Lieutenant Charles Welman 
(1840-1914)
29 May 1863

Volume 10, page 254, sitting number 13,383.

Charles Caesar Welman of the 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was born in 1840 at Puddington in Devon, the eldest son of Charles Noel Welman (1814-1907) of Norton Manor in Somerset, JP and DL for Somerset. Welman père is listed in Converts to Rome: a Biographical List of the More Notable Converts to the Catholic Church (1907). One of his daughters became a nun, as indeed did two of Charles Caesar's daughters.

Charles Caesar Welman joined the 77th Foot by purchase as an Ensign on 6 January 1860. On 23 October 1860 he exchanged to the 49th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot.

On 26 November 1862 Charles Caesar Welman married Eugenia Mary Stoner at Torquay. The marriage produced three sons and five daughters.

Welman retired from the Army the following year with the rank of Lieutenant. By 1868 he was a Lieutenant in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.

The couple appear on the 1881 census living at the Priory, Prior Park, Somerset. Major Welman gave as his profession ‘JP for Somerset, Major West Somerset Yeomanry.’ Also present on the night of the census were three of their children and four servants.

In 1911 they were living with their unmarried daughter Una Mary Welman at 27 Holmesdale Road, Teddington. Major Welman died there, aged 73, on 3 February 1914, leaving effects valued at £445. Mrs Welman died, aged 78, on 27 April 1917 at 27 Holmesdale Road, Teddington. She left effects valued at £697. 

A mid-20th-century article on the Welman family in the Taunton Courier (12 November 1949) concludes: ‘Although Charles Noel Welman had so many sons, there are now only two Welmans living – Mr Paul Arundel Welman and his 14-year-old son.’