Charles Rippon

Charles Rippon was born in 1863 in Whitby, and chose a rather more adventurous career than either his father or his older brother, becoming a mariner. He served his apprenticeship as a mariner between 1880 and 1885, but doesn't make another appearance in the available Census records. In 1893, he married Annie Elizabeth White, the daughter of a surveyor of highways from Lythe near Whitby, and they had three children, but the whole family seem to have spent much of the next few years at sea before settling in Hanover Terrace, Whitby (although Charles was still at sea). Charles and Annie finally retired to a house named Albaris in Mayfield Road, Whitby. Annie died in 1934, Charles in 1937. They were predeceased by eldest daught Mary Isabel (or Mabel) who never married and died in 1932 aged 38. The previous year, middle child Florence Emma Rippon married (late at 36) Sir Arthur Newton Hollely, a prosperous businessman in the retail trade, later managing director of Pophams department store in Plymouth. There were no children (although he had one from a previous marriage). Florence died in 1975. Youngest son Richard Charles Rippon married and had two children, and that line continues. He died in 1964.