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Charles Hambleton SHARP Swain; b. 1861 Boston, Lincolnshire; son of John William SHARP (merchant tailor) & Sarah Ann SWAIN; 1881 Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, apprentice auctioneer; 1881 emigrated to USA; 1900 town of Victor, Teller County, Colorado, civil engineer; 1906 family emigrated from USA to Punta Arenas; mining engineer at Cutter Cove; engaged in gold-dredging, Porvenir, Tierra del Fuego; employed by Menéndez
m. c1896 USA?
Florence May CALL Brown; b. 1873 Ohio, USA; dtr. of Justin Bond CALL (railroad brakeman) & Emma L. BROWN
Children: (five)
1. Charles Van Tassel.; b. 1897, Victor, Colorado, USA; 1918 clerk in US Consulate,
Punta Arenas
2. Ernest; b. USA; m. Raquel CORONA Flores; 6 children
3. Mildred; b. 1908 Porvenir; active at Anglican church and school, Punta Arenas;
schoolmistress ("Miss Sharp"); 1937/38 opened own school; continued teaching
until her death in 1993; unmarried