Charles Harman was born on 16th April 1826 and was baptised on 25th June 1826 at Saint Denys, Rotherfield. It is recorded that his father - James. Harman - was a stonemason and bricklayer.
In 1829 when Charles was aged four his grandfather Thomas Harman died. In 1837 when Charles was aged 11, in the January his sister Leah died. At the time of his sisters Leah's death he was living home with his parent's. Also living with his parent's James and Mariah was Leah's daughter Sarah-ann their granddaughter. In that same year 1837 Sarah-ann died at the age of four years soon after the death of her mother Leah. His parents James and Mariah also had another grand child living with them this being Caroline's daughter Eliza. His grand mother Hannah wife of Thomas Harman also died in the September of 1837and it was his uncle Thomas Harman who registered the death. Charles parents were at that time living at Yew Tree Cottage, and, probably, Charles was working for his father James. Mariah Harman his mother died and was buried on 11th November 1848.

Prior to Charles being married he lived in the village with James and his second wife Barbara. Charles was aged 24 when he married on 5th September 1852 at Saint Denys, Rotherfield, Jane Head also aged 24. Her father was John Head, a labourer, and her mother's name was Rosanna. Both her parents lived at Heathfield. Charles brothers, James, William, Thomas and John were all living at Frogs Hole. So it was natural that Charles and Jane when they were first married lived at Frogs Hole with the rest of the family.

They had the following children:-
Their first child was Emily Jane who was born in 1853 at Rotherfield.
Their first boy was named after his father Charles, with the second name of Hiram. He was born in 1854 and baptised on 14th September 1854 at St. Denys, Rotherfield.
Charles and Jane then moved to the parish of Mayfield and this is where their second son George was born in 1857 and baptised on 14th June 1857 at Saint Denys.

Charles and Jane lived at Town Row a hamlet just down the road from Rotherfield, and they then moved to Jarvis Brook. Many Harmans lived at Jarvis Brook in the past (my own father being born there in 1906) with Harman's still living there in 2000. Jarvis Brook is a 15-minute walk to get to Rotherfield. It was here that Hiram Henry was born in 1862 and baptised at Saint Denys on the 14th September 14th 1862.
This was followed by Izum born 1863 also at Jarvis Brook followed by Henrietta Harriet also born at Jarvis Brook and baptised 11th December 1864 at Saint Denys.

Cottage Hill is another place that features regularly in the history of the Harmans. And it was here that Charles and Jane next moved to and where John his brother and his wife Rhoda lived.
Rosanna Leah a girl was next to be born, and named after Jane's mother and Charle's sister Leah who had died in 1837 when he was aged 11.
Henrietta Harriet was born in 1862 and baptised at Saint Denys on 14th September 1862.
The last child of Charles and Jane was Jane Ann born and baptised at Saint Denys on the 11th October 1868.

In 1874 tragedy struck the family with the death of daughter Emily Jane who died on the 6th April 1874 at the age of twenty-one. She married Frederick Martin on 6th December 1873 at Saint Denys.

It is unknown when Charles Harman died but he was still alive in 1901 living at Town Row aged 74 as a bricklayer. It is not known when Jane Harman died, but it is believed that she remained at Rotherfield.

Their son George became a farm labourer at Brickyard Cottage, Rotherfield, and married a Mary about 1884. Their children were a girl named Edith born in 1885 and a boy named James after his grandfather born in 1887.

We find Hiram Henry in 1881 as a farm servant to Edward Latter at Hoath farm. Hiram Henry was married at the parish of Ticehurst in 1885 to a Mary - her maiden name is not known. It is through the census 1891 that we find Henry married to Ann and Hiram was a labourer at Birchden, Groombridge, Sussex. Also he had a son called Albert Hiram age 2 born in 1889 two years prior to the census.

Albert Hiram was only to live another 25 years for Albert was killed on the 6th June 1918 aged 29 in France, five months before the war ended like many of the young men in that war. Albert Hiram like many realised the probability of being killed and therefore he had made a will naming his father beneficiary. Hiram his father (a woodman of Birchden Cottage, Groombridge, Sussex) was granted probate at Lewes on 31st July 1918. Hiram lived to the age of 79 when he died on 8th August 1941.

Rosanna Leah married Percival Stuart Walls on the 9th December 1897 at Saint Denys Rotherfield. Rosanna and Percy had two children one named Gladys Mono born 1898 and a second girl named Henrietta May Marion born 1901. Rosanna lived all her life in Rotherfield and died on the 9th December 1935.

Henrietta Harriet in the census of 1881, at the age of 23 was a dressmaker lodging with a Emily Hutchings at Holdenhurst near Bournemouth.

Again there would appear that there was no male line to continue from Charles and Jane Harman's marriage. But it is possible that Charles Hiram Harman who we have no further information on, survived. If he did not this branch withered and died.