Mrs Charles Castle
(1841-1915)
27 June 1861

Volume 4, page 140, sitting number 4632.

Born Margaret Emmeline Hinds in 1841, she was the only daughter of Reverend John Thomas Hinds, Rector of Pulham in Dorset and later a Justice of Peace for Dorset. 

On 9 July 1863 at Pulham in Dorset she married Charles Castle of Westgate Tower, Canterbury, a Captain in the East Kent militia, second son of Thomas Castle of Eastry, Kent.

'The marriage of Captain Charles Castle, of Westgate Tower, Canterbury, to Miss Hinds, only daughter of the rector of Pulham, was celebrated on the 9th inst., with great éclat, at the above-named village. For some days previously the parishioners had been doing their utmost to add to the festivities of the occasion by erecting numerous emblematic triumphal arches over the various approaches to the house and throughout the surrounding grounds. [...] At half-past two o'clock the bride and bridegroom left, en route for the Continent, amidst the acclamations of all assmebled (South Times and Dorset County Herald, 18 July 1863). 

At the time of the 1881 census the couple were living at Hawford House at Claines in Worcestershire. Charles Castle was 'High Sheriff of Worcestershire' and 'Deputy Lieutenant.'

Charles Castle died, aged 55, at Hawford House on 18 April 1885. According to his obituary in the Worcestershire Chronicle (25 April 1885): 'The late Captain Charles Castle belonged to a Kentish family, but by his marriage became associated with this county, Hawford House, which subsequently came into his possession, having been the property of his wife's grandmother, Mrs Clowes, sister of Colonel Clowes. [...] Captain Castle leaves a widow and several children; and his sudden death is made all the more melancholy by the circumstances that preparations would shortly have been made for the celebration of his eldest son's coming-of-age in August next.'

In 1891 Mrs Castle was still at Hawford House, now living with her daughter Dora Emmeline Castle and four servants. 

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