Born on Friday, 7 February at Landport, a suburb of Portsmouth to John, a clerk in the navy pay-office attached to the dockyard, and Elizabeth Dickens.
1814
Father transferred to London with family.
1816
Father transferred to Chatham with family. First gets some schooling, although already an avid reader.
1821
Reforms in the Admiralty lose his father his post and most of his incorne.
Family moves to a house in Camden Town, London.
1824
Father arrested for debt February 2 and consigned to the Marshalsea, where family joins him. Separated from family and put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory at Hungerford Market, CD walks four miles to and from lodgings in Camden Town; visits his father on Sundays at prison.
Charles dickens family life
Eventually family finds him lodging in Lant Street close to them. After father's release on May 28, family returns to Camden Town. Attends day school in Hampstead Road, London.
1827
Taken from school; becomes office boy of an attorney; deci