Emily Charman was born in Worthing in 1854, she was baptised on 10th September at St. Mary's, Broadwater where her parents, Henry and Harriett, nee Joyce, were married on Sept. 30th, 1851. In 1861, Emily was 6yrs old and her brother, George, was 8yrs. Henry Charman, 30yrs, was a Coachman, Harriett was 33yrs and the family lived at 8, Richmond Place, Worthing (next to the Wheatsheaf Public House). On 14th May 1864 when Emily was 10yrs old, her father, now 34yrs of age, was admitted to the County Lunatic Asylum, St. Francis, in Haywards Heath suffering from "melancholia" * where he remained for the rest of his life, dying there, aged 58yrs, on 15th January 1889. In 1871 Emily, 17yrs, and her mother, Harriett, 44yrs, were both in domestic service, Emily was a housemaid with the Wassell family in Gloucester Place, Brighton, remaining there until September 1874 when, aged 20yrs, she too was admitted to St. Francis, County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath suffering from "sub- acute mania*. She recovered from this episode and was discharged after seven months on 30th April 1875. Emily Charman died from Tuberculosis on 10th October 1878 at 3, Clarendon Place, Worthing, aged 24yrs, she was a domestic servant. Her death certificate gave the cause of death as "Phthisis". Today, Henry and Emily would probably be diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder.