Thread: Charles Alexander Woolley

I need to find who his parents were. He gives his birth date as 26 November 1858 and 1859, born St Asaph Flintshire, Wales, on documents relating to his service with the Adelaide Fire Brigade. No birth registration for either year has been found. Cannot identify him in the 1861 census. He appears on the 1881 UK census working for the London Metropolitan fire Board, stationed at Paddington. The surname is spelt Woolly and previous occupation is given as "seaman MS"(Merchant Service??) On 14 September 1881 he married a widow several years his senior, who had two children-Elizabeth Ormiston Williams, formerly Worth. He gives his age as 23, hers was 34.CAW and Elizabeth had a son also named Charles Alexander Woolley, birth registered in June Qtr 1882.
By 1885 CAW is working at the Adelaide Fire Brigade in S Australia in the company of Thomas Trevanion Hugo, who was discharged in Adelaide as an AB seaman from the "Sarah Bell" on 13 July 1883. In 1885 CAW must have received news that all was not well in England, as on 14 April 1887, both men resigned their Adelaide fire brigade appointments, and presumably returned to England. CAW's wife Elizabeth aged 40, died of uterine cancer on 25 June 1887 , and their son Charles aged 5 years died from acute gastro enteritis on 6 August 1887.
I have found no record of CAW entering or leaving South Australia. Did he need the "help" of Hugo to work his passage or stow away?? Were they some how related??
Why did CAW give the name Worth to one of his sons by his second wife ?(who he married in SA in Feb 1892).The name Worth was carried on into the next generation also, as a second name because it was believed to have been associated with money. Elizabeth's father Jesse Worth, was a wealthy brewer who was shot and killed in a duel, shortly after her birth at Dunchurch, near Rugby!
Family members believed CAW was an only child whose parents died when he was very young, and he was brought up by an "aunt" at Shepherds Bush. Who was this?
Is the CA Woolley aged 12 listed in the 1871 census at St Vincents School for destitute boys him? It was a Catholic school, and he is believed to have been Catholic. Was he sent to sea from school because he had no home to return to?
On his marriage certificate he says his father's name was Charles Alexander Woolley, and he was an engineer. Is this the man who died at Peterborough on 5 March 1859? He was a railway clerk aged 26. But this is a bare 9months before CAW's birth in November 1859.
If anyone can help with this tangle it will be greatly appreciated.!! Would like to find names of parents of CAW.

Hello

In Sept 1901 CAW was described as 39 years old b 1862, nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc02Cycl-t1-back1-d1-d1-d4.html