Charles C. Noble

Charles Noble's parents were Augustus Noble and Joanna Shaw. Augustus Noble's parents were English and sailed to the United States in 1820. They lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and Augustus Noble was born on December 13, 1823. He left school at the age of 13 and worked in a grocery and clothing store for three years and then for a four-year apprenticeship as a college. Hearing of the gold rush to California, he left Boston around the Cape Horn. He has worked in Sacramento where he opened a business as Cooper. To make a lot of money, he returned to Boston, where he married Johanna Shaw in 1852. Joanna Maynard Shaw was born in December 1825 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Having lost most of her money in Boston, Augustus returned to California with Johanna shortly after their wedding. To make money in San Francisco and his trading business, he went to Soquel in 1856 and saved his little money to buy a farm. Augustus and Johanna Noble had six children, five sons and one daughter. Charles had four brothers, George (born about 1857), Edward (born about 1859), Frederick (born about 1860), and Walter (born about 1868). His sister, Charlotte, was the oldest child in San Francisco in 1854.