Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Siddons, Charles F.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


CHARLES F. SIDDONS farmer, P.O. Ridge, is of English 
extraction, both is parents having been born there.  He was 
born in France.  His father died in England and his mother 
in Amiens, France, in 1878.  Charles F. was born at Calais, 
June 24, 1820, and learned the trade of lace-making, 
weaving, and stocking-making, at which he worked in France 
and subsequently for five years in England, where he had 
gone in 1840.  He came to this country in 1846, settling in 
Germantown, where he worked at his trade for one firm nearly 
forty years.  In 1865 he bought a farm in Montgomery county, 
and made it his home for three years, his son carrying it on 
while he continued at his trade.  In 1868 he bought his 
present farm, with the same arrangement, but in 1885 retired 
permanently to his farm.  In 1844 he was married in 
Leicester, England, to Caroline Wood, a native of that 
place.  She was born May 18, 1821.  They have had eight 
children, three of whom died in infancy, and a son, John 
Henry, when 28 years of age and unmarried.  Those living 
are:  Eliza, wife of James Service, of this township; 
Harriet, wife of F. J. Parker, in Montgomery county; Joseph 
Benjamin, who married in England and is living there in 
Nottingham; and Francis William, single, who lives on the 
farm.  Mr. Siddons stands very high in the estimation of 
those who know him.  He is a member of Walker Lodge, No. 
306, I. O. O. F., of Germantown, in which he has passed all 
the chairs.  He and his wife are members of the Deep Run 
Presbyterian church.