Charles Horsfall

[2] He returned to England around 1803, and on 9 June 1803, he married Dorothy Hall Berry (7 October 1784 – 18 March 1846) at Trinity Church, Liverpool.

[1] They had seven sons and five daughters: Ann (1804-), Thomas Berry (1805-1878), Robert (1807-1881), Mary Sale (1808-), Charles Hodgson (1810-1847), Eliza Dorothy (1812-1876), Caroline (1814-), Ellen (1816-), Dorothy (1818-1899), Louisa (1818-), Sarah Sophia (1820-), William Joseph (1822-) and George Henry (1824-1900).

He was an avid botanist, and his wife was a noted horticultural artist who contributed many plates to books and magazines of the time.

He was in partnership with another notable merchant family, the Tobins and also his cousins the Hodgsons, Jamaican plantation owners.

[3] In his honour his family, led by his son Robert, built Christ Church on Great Homer Street in Everton.