Ridgway, Charles T. (1815-1906)

Name:

Ridgway, Charles T. (1815-1906)

Other Names:

Ridgway, Charles Thomas

Born:

10/15/1815

Birthplace:

Groton, MA

Died:

02/26/1906

Death Location:

Nashua, NH

Residence:

Groton, MA
Keene, NH 1817-1830
Amherst, NH 1830-1834
Nashua, NH 1834-1906
directories, 1841-1879; New Hampshire Business directories, 1868-1894. Census records, 1850, 1860, 1880

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Watchmaker
Jeweler

Father:

Ridgway, James (1780-1840)

Mother:

Stowell, Faith (1782-1856)

Relations:

Business: Working with his father, James, in Amherst, NH, before 1834 as James Ridgway & Co., and in Nashua, NH, after 1834. Charles took over the business, and changed the name to his own, by 1841, after the death of his father. Ads suggest that a millinery was attached to the jeweler shop, sometimes referring to Mrs. or Miss Ridgway's millinery (ads 1823 -1850).
Siblings:
Ridgway, Sarah Coburn (1802/3-; b. Worcester, MA)
Ridgway, Elizabeth Relief (1804-)
Ridgway, James (1807-1808, Groton, MA)
Ridgway, Maria Fiducia (1809-)
Ridgway, Emily Ann (1811-)
Ridgway, Harriet Antoinette (1818-1897; m1. jeweler John Ridgway, cousin; m2. scale maker Thomas Harrison; children)
Cousin/brother-in-law: jeweler John Ridgway (1813-1869) of Boston, MA
Uncle: Silversmith and jeweler John Ridgway (1780-1851), of Boston, MA
Parents: Faith Stowell (1782-1856) and James Ridgway (c.1780-1840) of Worcester, MA, Groton, MA, Keene, NH, Amherst, NH, and Nashua, NH, married 1802. James was a silversmith/jeweler/clockmaker.
Grandparents: Relief Jennison and Abel Stowell (1752-1818) clockmaker/silversmith of Worcester, MA; Esther (or Sarah) Coburn (1757/9-1845) and James Ridgway (1753-1845) of Boston, MA, Worcester, MA, and Maine. James was a gold and silversmith, and served in the American Revolution.
Great-grandparents: Esther Rawlins and Joseph Coburn (1714-) of York, ME; Elizabeth Tipping and James Ridgway (1725-1866), married 1751
Great-great-grandparents: Hannah Parsons and Phillip Rawlins; Hannah Storer (1682-1770) and Ebenezer Coburn (1676-1749); Mehitable Hinchley (or Richards) (1699-1774) and James Ridgway (1698-1772)

Spouse:

(1) Abby F. Ingalls, August 6, 1839, Nashua, NH
(2) Mary E. Butterfield, 1846

Children:

Eliza A. (c.1841-; b. Nashua, NH; m. __ Johnson; 2 sons)
Charles R. (1851-1901; b. Nashua, NH)

Notes:

Advertisement, Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, October 8, 1841.

Nashua Directory, 1841,1843,1845,1850,1853,1856.
Hillsborough County Directory, 1857-67, 1868-76, 1877, 1879.
New England Business Directory, 1875-1883.

Louise Conway Belden, Marks of American Silversmiths, 358-359.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 311.

D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. W. Lewis & Company, 1885), 178.

Edward E. Parker, History of the City of Nashua, N. H., From the Earliest Settlement of the Old Dunstable to the Year 1895... (Nashua, New Hampshire: Telegraph Publishing Company, 1897), 465.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Adams Brown Company, 1983), 121.

William H. H. Stowell, Stowell Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass. (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1922), 152.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

Nashua Cemetery, Nashua, New Hampshire