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Excerpt from Rochester and Charles Dickens, Vol. 1
Sir Robert Barlow, Kt which has also an air of pomposity. In the Navy pay ofiice we find the name of John Dickens as fifth clerk, and it is curious that in the Treasurer's branch we should come upon a fellow-clerk of His bearing the name of Samuel Tupman. Dickens's father was sent down to Chatham in the year 1819. He was, of course, no more than a superior clerk, with £200 a year. He first lived at No. 11 (then No. 2) Ordnance-terrace, on the borders of Chatham and Rochester. He later removed to a less pretentious tenement, No. 18, St. Mary's-place, next door to a sort of little Bethel. His was not a high position, but his bright, little son made his way everywhere and observed everything.
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