Charles Richardson Ruston
of Armitage and Ruston and Chatteris Engineering Co
1847 Born in Mepal, Cambridge[1] son of William S. Ruston and his wife Elizabeth; nephew of Joseph Ruston
c.1870 Became a partner in Armitage and Ruston soon after Armitage set up in business
1876 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Charlton Armitage and Charles Richardson Ruston, at Chatteris, in the Isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, as Engineers, Ironfounders, and General Commission Agents, under the style or firm of Armitage and Ruston, was, on the 25th day of January, 1876, dissolved by mutual consent. All debts owing from or due to the late firm will be discharged or received by the said Samuel Charlton Armitage, who for the future will carry on the business on his own account...'[2]
1881 Living in Chatteris, with William Seward Ruston, surveyor of highways, coal agent and Methodist preacher, 61, Elizabeth Ruston 57, Charles Richardson Ruston, manure agent, 34, Caroline E. Ruston, 28, Annie Marg. Ruston 25[3]
1901 A coal agent, a boarder living in Chatteris, Cambridge[4]
1910 Died in North Witchford[5]