Charles Wedge of Shudy Camps

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Charles Wedge (1746-1842). Farmer and surveyor, was born 1746 the son of Francis Wedge at Forton, Staffordshire, and the brother of John Wedge and of Thomas Wedge. In 1776 he married Elizabeth Fletcher, at St Mary Woolnoth, London. They had seven surviving children, viz Edward Davy Wedge, Elizabeth Darke (mother of John Charles Darke), Rev Charles Wedge, Mary Melhuish, Lieutenant Richard Wedge of the 30th Regiment, Jane Isaacson and John Helder Wedge, the colonial surveyor and squatter.

Charles Wedge practised as a surveyor and assisted John Rennie in the construction of canals. He was often appointed a Commissioner of the Inclosures and also practised modern agricultural techniques on his farms at Little Wilbraham and Shudy Camps, in Cambridgeshire.

Charles Wedge died in 1842, aged 96 years. He is buried with his wife at St Mary’s Church, Shudy Camps.