The Cratchit family, from Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol," lived in Camden Town.
Not exactly "left" home but Charles Dickens went to live with a family friend, Elizabeth Roylance in Camden Town, when his parents were put in jail.
In 1822, when he was about ten, the family moved from Portsmouth to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town, in London. '70 Glouster Crescent, Camden town' does not appear in any records I could find.
Around then his father became in debt and went to prison leaving his family poor and working in a blacking factory
Camden is in my city with his family watching sponge bob square pants!!11
The fictions family from a christmas carol is Scrooges family.
They moved to Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent the happiest years of his life.
The CamdensEric CamdenAnnie CamdenMatt CamdenMary CamdenLucy CamdenSimon CamdenRuthie Camdenand eventuallyDavid Camden (twin)Samuel Camden (twin)
Bob Cratchets family lived there
Charles Dickens had seven siblings, for a total of eight children in his family.
Charles Dickens went to live and work at Warren's Blacking Warehouse while the rest of his family moved to Marshalsea debtor's prison. He worked long hours pasting labels on pots of boot blacking, an experience that deeply affected him and influenced his writing in later years.
Yes, Ruthie Camden, a character on the television show "7th Heaven," is adopted. She is the biological daughter of Annie and Eric Camden's friend, who was unable to care for her. Ruthie is portrayed as the youngest child in the Camden family throughout the series.
Dickens is said to have based the Cratchit family on his own as he grew up.