Charles Chaplin was born on 11 December 1832 in Chelmsford, Essex, parents Henry Chaplin, book binder and Lucy Dean, and baptised in Springfield, Essex on 6 January 1833.
In 1841 he was with his father and siblings in Chelmsford. In 1851 he was an apprentice baker in Chelmsford, staying in the household of his master Richard Stannard. In 1861 he was staying with his brother Henry and family at 14a Brook Street, Hammersmith.
On 27 December 1874 he married Beatrice Buchanan in Edinburgh. He was described as a baker and lived at 49 Couper Street, Leith.
Beatrice was born in Westminster, London in 1848, parents James Buchanan (1816-1891), military corporal and later tailor, and Margaret Tregwell (1818/9-1891). Beatrice had previously had a son James in 1873, when she was described as widow of Samuel McClure, but it is unclear (to me, at least) whether or not she had actually married Samuel McClure. James was living with his mother's parents in Glasgow in 1881.
I have not, so far, found either Charles or Beatrice in any later census than 1861. Nor have they come up in any passenger lists leaving UK, or in the US census.
Has anyone come across them anywhere?
