• Born: 1853, Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England
• Christened: 20 May 1853, Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England ¹
• Married: 30 Apr 1913, St. Giles' Church, Alderton, Wiltshire, England ²
• Died: 22 May 1934, Alderton, Wiltshire, England ^{3 4}
• Buried: Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England ⁴

  Research Notes:

Charles son of Francis Garlick of Brokenborough, yeoman, and Susanna (baptismal record)

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MALMESBURY.

A serious accident happened on Friday night last to Mr. Charles Garlick, youngest son of Mr. Francis Garlick, farmer, of Brokenborough. It appears that Mr. Garlick had ridden over to Bradfield Farm, Hullavington, to see his brother (Mr. D. Garlick), and no doubt stayed to supper, starting for home between 10 and 11 o'clock. He was riding a young horse which he had only purchased a few weeks, and which had thrown him a week or two before. Mr. Supt. Collett, with P.C. Bryant, had driven his horse and trap from Sherston Magna round to Foxley Church, where they were to meet P.C. Smith (who is stationed at Hullavington), at 11 o'clock. When Supt. Collett got to the church he found it was ten minutes to 11, and he proposed to drive a little way in the direction of Norton and Hullavington and meet Smith. They had not got many yards on the road before they heard a policeman's whistle being blown violently, and putting the horse to a gallop, they came up to the turning in the cross roads, where they found P.C. Smith had just dragged Mr. Garlick on to the greensward. P.C. Smith said he had just come off Mr. Macleod's premises when he heard a horse going at a rapid pace, and upon his coming to the corner of the cross roads leading from Norton to Foxley he found Mr. Garlick weltering in a pool of blood and insensible. Mr. Collett removed the trap seat and with some straw and the cushions they made a bed for the poor fellow and brought him on to Malmesbury. Not knowing who his medical man was they took him to the surgery of Dr. Mouat-Biggs, which was the nearest to hand. Dr. Kinneir, his medical adviser, was sent for, and the two gentlemen attended to the sufferer. They found he had received a terrible blow over the eye from the fall from his horse, but he had not been dragged some distance as was at first reported. During Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the sufferer remained unconscious, bulletins being posted outside the surgery every day. On Monday night there seemed but very little hope of recovery, but on Tuesday morning a bulletin was issued stating the patient to be slightly conscious, and it is now hoped with the excellent treatment he is receiving he will pull through. Much sympathy has been felt in the town and neighbourhood for the sufferer and his aged father. Great credit is due to Mr. Supt. Collett and P.C. Smith for the promptitude and despatch with which they conveyed the young man to Malmesbury, the whole time not exceeding 25 minutes, and had not the police been, as it were, on the spot, Mr. Garlick must have been frozen to death before morning. The horse was found and taken to Bradfield the next morning uninjured. On examining the road the police found the marks of the horse having plunged or struck up.

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, Thursday, 14 Feb 1889, p. 8

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In 1891 Charles Garlick, aged 36, born in Brokenborough, single, farmer, was with his widowed father in Brokenborough Farm, Brokenborough Wilts.

In June 1895 Giles Garlick and Charles Garlick, farmers, were granted Probate of their late father's personal estate.

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Charles Garlick died aged 81 years (M. I.)