Charlies third half-brother

Has any information ever surfaced on CC's other brother, the child of Charles Sr. and 'Louise'? Chaplin mentions him as '...a most beautiful child of four with large dark eyes and rich brown curly hair; it was Louise's son- my half brother' in MA. He goes on to write: 'For some reason, I never had contact with the child. Although he was my half brother, I don't remember ever having exchanged a word with him...' But yet he never mentions him by name. Charlie and Syd lived with their father long enough that he had certainly heard it at some point. David Robinson also discribes him briefly as 'another half-brother for Charlie'...but that is all that seems to be known of him.

According to Chaplin after Charles Sr. died the child and Louise entered the workhouse and Hannah had gone to visit them. Chaplin wrote:

'Louise, whom Sydney and I had lived in the Kennington Road, had died, ironically enough in the Lambeth Workhouse, the same place in which we had been confined. She survived Father only by four years, leaving her little son an orphan, and he had also been sent to the same Hanwell Schools that Sydney and I had been sent to.

Mother wrote that she had visited the boy, explaining who she was and that Sydney and I had lived with him and his father and mother in the Kenningtion Road. But he hardly remembered, as he had been only four years old at the time. He also had no recollection of his father. And now he was ten. He was registered under Louise's maiden name, and as far as Mother could find out he had no relatives. She described him as being a handsome boy, very quiet, shy and preoccupied. She brought him a bag of sweets and some oranges and apples and promised to visit him regularly, which I believe she did, until she herself became ill again and was sent back to Cane Hill.'

I wonder if the child died before 1914...because he certainly knew who his father was after Hannah had visited. One would think that he would have surfaced somehow after the phenominal success Charlie would attain. If not him, at least one of his offspring would have come forward sometime in these past 90-odd years to say 'Hey! I'm related to Charlie Chaplin!'

Charlie never seems to refer to him with any bitterness, and even seems to convey a little bit of sorrow for never having known him. I'd be interested to find out what ever became of this mystery Chaplin brother.

Unless someone did come forward, this person would be almost impossible to trace, since we have no last name for Louise, and no first or last name for the boy.

Someone with lots of time on their hands could try checking the birth registry for the year the child was probably born. But since Charlie's birth wasn't registered, there's no guarantee that his was.

The Hanwell School and workhouse records, which I presume survive, might also provide a clue.

Connie K.