Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Robert Henry and Florence Wigginton. The 1911 census records for 3, Station Road, Great Bowden, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Robert Henry Wigginton, head of the family and married for 12 years, a Railway Carter, born 1872 in Braunston, Rutland and his wife Florence, a Hosiery Seamer, born 1880 in Farndon, Northamptonshire, also Charles Henry, son and a Schoolboy, born 1899, Nellie Gertrude, daughter and a Schoolgirl, born 1901, Annie, daughter and a Schoolgirl, born 1902, Gladys, daughter and a Schoolgirl, born 1904 and Violet, daughter and a Schoolgirl, born 1908, all five children were born in Great Bowden, Leics.