Co-overseer in Mile End Old Town in 1885.
The 1879 gives his address as 112 White Horse Lane.
Charles Hart Bardouleau was born circa 1829 in Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the younger child of Augustine Fulgentius Phidelceas Bardouleau (c.1788-1870) and Elizabeth Roze Bardouleau née Hart (1788-1870).
He was shown as aged 12 years in the census that was undertaken on 6 June 1841. He was living in Regent Street East (later renamed London Road), Stepney, Middlesex (now Greater London), with his parents and his elder brother, Augustine Frederick Bardouleau (b.circa 1827). His father was described as a greengrocer.
In the census that was compiled on 30 March 1851 he was shown as aged 22 years and a fishmonger. He was living in White Horse Lane, Mile End Old Town, Stepney, Middlesex, with his parents and his brother, Augustine Frederick Bardouleau. Both his father and his brother were also listed as fishmongers.
On 24 September 1854 he married Isabella Elizabeth Hilder in St Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney High Street, where in the marriage register he is shown as aged 25 years, a bachelor and a fishmonger who was living at 4 White Horse Lane, Stepney, a son of Augustine Bardouleau, a fishmonger, whilst his wife was described as aged 20 years and a spinster, residing at 8 Ernest Street, Stepney, the daughter of Charles James Hilder, a currier.
They were to have five children: Charles Hart Bardouleau (1855-1857); Isabella Elizabeth Rose Bardouleau (1856-1857); Charles Samuel Bardouleau (1859-1859); Henry James Samuel Bardouleau (1860-1916) and Lilley Bardouleau (1863-1906).
The 1856 edition of the London Post Office Directory confirms that he was trading as a fishmonger at 4 White Horse Lane, Stepney, whilst electoral registers in 1858 show him listed as residing at 12 Mile End Road, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex.
He was described as aged 32 years and a fishmonger in the census that was taken on 7 April 1861. He was listed at 4 White Horse Lane, Stepney, with his wife, aged 26 years, their son Henry James Bardouleau, aged 8 months, his father, who was also listed as fishmonger, together with a female lodger and a female domestic servant.
On 23 June 1869 he petitioned Her Majesty's Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes giving his occupation as a fishmonger and a fruiterer. He claimed that shortly after his marriage his wife became a habitual drunkard and frequently abused him in the most obscene and insulting language stating that in August 1864 she struck him with a poker and overturned his fruit boards and attempted to stab him and that from that date to when he submitted the petition that his wife had never cohabited with him but had lived a life of prostitution committing adultery at divers brothels in Stepney with divers men whose names he did not know. He further stated that in the months of March and April 1866 at a brothel at 19 Florentine Street, Mile End Road, Stepney, his wife habitually committed adultery with a William Glover and that on or about August 1868 at the rear of the New Globe public house she committed adultery with a costermonger. As the matter was not contested by his wife, nor by William Glover, his marriage was dissolved on 30 March 1870.
In the census that was taken on 2 April 1871 he is described as aged 40 years, a widower and a fruiterer & fishmonger, still residing at 4 White Horse Lane, Stepney, with his son Henry James Bardouleau who was listed as aged 10 years and an assistant to his father.
On 25 November 1880 he was initiated as a freemason in the Langthorne Lodge No.1421, which met at the Swan Hotel, Stratford, Essex (now Greater London) until 1885 when they held their meetings at the Angel Hotel, High Street, Great Ilford, Essex (now Greater London). He was shown as fruit merchant living at 112 White Horse Lane, Stepney, in the membership registers held by the United Grand Lodge of England at Freemasons' Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, London, WC2.
The census that was compiled on 3 April 1881 shows him as aged 50 years and a fruiterer & fishmonger living at 112 White Horse Lane, Stepney, with his son Henry James Bardouleau, aged 21 years and his daughter Lilley Bardouleau, aged 18 years, together with a male assistant who worked in his shop. In the September 1881 electoral registers he is listed at 112 White Horse Lane, Stepney, but it also shows he is the owner of six freehold properties, i.e. 119 White Horse Lane and 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Ernest Street, Stepney.
His death was registered as aged 56 years in the 2nd quarter of 1887 in the Hastings Registration District, Sussex. Probate records confirm his address remained as 112 White Horse Lane, Stepney, but that he died on 17 May 1887 at 7 Fulham Place, Hastings. His body was buried on 1 June 1887 in the South Metropolitan Cemetery (now known as the West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, Norwood High Street, London, SE27 9JU). His will was proved by his son Henry Samuel Bardouleau on 5 August 1887 and his effects totalled £474-19s-9d.
His obituary in the Tower Hamlets Advertiser dated 21 May 1887 reads:- "Hundreds of the inhabitants of Mile End will regret to hear of the death of Mr Charles Hart Bardouleau, fruiter and fishmonger, of White Horse Lane, which took place at Hastings, on Friday, he having gone to that place a few weeks ago for the benefit of his health. Mr Bardouleau was well known in Mile End, not only as a genial and generous friend, but as a public man, he having served the office of vestryman, overseer and guardian. His term of office on the Vestry would have expired this month, but he was elected a member of the Guardian Board at the recent election. He was an active worker on behalf of Victoria Park Hospital, at the Mile End Society and took a lively interest in all public matters. For some time he has not been in good health and it was thought that a change to the south would be of benefit to him. This, however, was not the result and his loss will be mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances".
He is shown as 'C.H.BARDOULEAU' on the Mile End Old Town boundary marker affixed to the exterior of 20 Morgan Street, London, E3.
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