Charles William Vail was the second son and fifth child of Luke and Miriam Vail. He was born in London in 1833 and emigrated to Melbourne with his parents and three younger brothers in 1854. He was working as a tailor in Collingwood when he married Elizabeth Ramsay in 1857.
Two years later he was listed as a Tailor at Commercial Road Prahran, then in 1865 at York Street in Emerald Hill. His mother was living with him at Chapel Street Prahran when she died in 1873 and when his son Luke married in 1881.
They had moved to Glenferrie Road in Malvern by the time he died of epileptic fits and exhaustion in 1888. The family continued to live in this shop until perhaps the end of WW1.
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