Biography:
Isaac Channer
1852 –1905
Isaac Channer
View full burial details
Unmarked grave Isaac Channer (1852-1905)
Isaac was born in 1852 in Chesham, the oldest child of Joseph Channer and Sarah Elborn. (They do not appear to have married and Isaac sometimes used his mother’s surname.)
His father was an agricultural labourer, although on Isaac’s marriage certificate he is described as a farm bailiff. Isaac was baptised 18 May 1860 at Latimer.
In 1861 the family were living at Jasons Hill, Chesham.
Isaac found himself in considerable trouble with the law as a young man and in September 1868 he committed two acts of arson for which he was not arrested until 1870. In September 1869 he stole three tame rabbits and a handkerchief.
On 10 November 1869, aged 16, he was arrested again. On 3 January 1870 he was convicted of stealing 3s 6d from his master, Daniel Elbourne (who may have been a relative of some sort of his mother), at Chalfont St Peter; embezzling 3s, 5s and 5s, also from Daniel Elbourne, and obtaining 10s by false pretences from Eliza Winkfield at Stoke Poges. Isaac was described as a labourer of “imperfect” education. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment with hard labour at Aylesbury House of Correction.
Far more seriously, on the 7 May 1870, Isaac, aged 17, was arrested for “Wilfully setting fire to the dwelling-house of Henry Grover, at Chesham, on 12 September 1868, also setting fire to certain farm buildings, the property of The Right Honble. William George, Baron Chesham, at Chesham on 12 September 1868.”
He was tried on 21 July 1870 at Aylesbury, pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to five years penal servitude. He remained in Aylesbury prison until he was transferred to Pentonville 26 November where his conduct was described as “indifferent”.
In the 1871 census he is listed amongst the numerous prisoners in Chatham prison where he had been sent 14 March that year.
He was released on a licence dated the 30 June 1874. From the licence documents we have his photograph and a description: Complexion fair, hair brown, eyes hazel, height 5’ 4”. He was quite a good-looking young man, if, unsurprisingly, sullen.
He was released from Millbank prison in London to the London Prisoners’ Aid Society. There are no further criminal records concerning him.
Isaac married Julia Bartlett, born in Berkhamsted, on 21 July 1878, St Luke’s Chelsea. His occupation was given as cellarman.
In 1881 the Channers were living in Holliday Street and Isaac was working as a cellarman which was still his occupation in 1891 when they were living in Victoria Road.
Isaac died in 1905 at 28 Cross Oak Road, aged 52.
His brother Arthur Channer and sister-in-law Annie are buried in Plot 538.
View this burial in the cemetery
Unmarked grave Isaac Channer (1852-1905)
Isaac was born in 1852 in Chesham, the oldest child of Joseph Channer and Sarah Elborn. (They do not appear to have married and Isaac sometimes used his mother’s surname.)
His father was an agricultural labourer, although on Isaac’s marriage certificate he is described as a farm bailiff. Isaac was baptised 18 May 1860 at Latimer.
In 1861 the family were living at Jasons Hill, Chesham.
Isaac found himself in considerable trouble with the law as a young man and in September 1868 he committed two acts of arson for which he was not arrested until 1870. In September 1869 he stole three tame rabbits and a handkerchief.
On 10 November 1869, aged 16, he was arrested again. On 3 January 1870 he was convicted of stealing 3s 6d from his master, Daniel Elbourne (who may have been a relative of some sort of his mother), at Chalfont St Peter; embezzling 3s, 5s and 5s, also from Daniel Elbourne, and obtaining 10s by false pretences from Eliza Winkfield at Stoke Poges. Isaac was described as a labourer of “imperfect” education. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment with hard labour at Aylesbury House of Correction.
Far more seriously, on the 7 May 1870, Isaac, aged 17, was arrested for “Wilfully setting fire to the dwelling-house of Henry Grover, at Chesham, on 12 September 1868, also setting fire to certain farm buildings, the property of The Right Honble. William George, Baron Chesham, at Chesham on 12 September 1868.”
He was tried on 21 July 1870 at Aylesbury, pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to five years penal servitude. He remained in Aylesbury prison until he was transferred to Pentonville 26 November where his conduct was described as “indifferent”.
In the 1871 census he is listed amongst the numerous prisoners in Chatham prison where he had been sent 14 March that year.
He was released on a licence dated the 30 June 1874. From the licence documents we have his photograph and a description: Complexion fair, hair brown, eyes hazel, height 5’ 4”. He was quite a good-looking young man, if, unsurprisingly, sullen.
He was released from Millbank prison in London to the London Prisoners’ Aid Society. There are no further criminal records concerning him.
Isaac married Julia Bartlett, born in Berkhamsted, on 21 July 1878, St Luke’s Chelsea. His occupation was given as cellarman.
In 1881 the Channers were living in Holliday Street and Isaac was working as a cellarman which was still his occupation in 1891 when they were living in Victoria Road.
Isaac died in 1905 at 28 Cross Oak Road, aged 52.
His brother Arthur Channer and sister-in-law Annie are buried in Plot 538.
Military graves