Born at Ross-on-Wye.
1841 Census
Linton, Hereford.
Mary Bickerton, 52.
Three children shown: James 30, Elizabeth 26, Charles 15, Agricultural labourer.
1851 Census
Old Chapple, Longhope, Glos.
Charles Bickerton, 24, lodger, Agricultural labourer.
Elizabeth, 20.
Enlisted at London into the 3rd Light Dragoons on the 25th of September 1851.
No other enlistment details are shown and no Regimental number in the 3rd Light Dragoons appears to have been allocated. This seems to have been done when the recruit joined the regiment, which he did not.
Transferred to the 15th Hussars from Maidstone Depot on the 31st of August 1852. Regimental No. 1684.
Transferred to the 11th Hussars on the 5th of November 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of May 1855.
>Discharged, "by purchase", from Birmingham on the 11th of October 1859, upon payment of £20.
Served 8 years 14 days.
Conduct: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
1861 Census
Cumbra, Llanfrechva Upper, Monmouthshire.
Charles Bickerton, 34, Labourer, born Linton.
Elizabeth, 32.
4 children shown: Emma 10, Henry 6, Sarah 3, Mary 3 months.
1881 Census
The 1881 Census shows him as living at Pennoxstone, Kings Capel, Hereford, the home of Lady Frances M.A. Cockburn, as a Butler, (late a Private 11th Hussars) unmarried, aged 56, and born in Hereford.
1891 Census
[RM: The 1891 Census shows him with no occupation (ie no entry) and unmarried at 1, Coningsby Hospital, Leominster, Hereford.
A man of this name is shown as dying in the Hereford registration district in the Decenber quarter of 1892, aged 70.