Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.: History

 

The Company

This company was established sometime in the mid to late 1820’s as it was first listed in a London city directory in 1830[1] and in a newspaper article in 1830[2] that mentioned an employee from 1827.  At first the firm went by the name Groucock, Copestake, & Co. as its original owners were Richard Groucock and Sampson Copestake.  In the 1830[3] directory it was listed as “Bobbin-net-Lace manufs.” at 7 Cheapside and 62 Friday Street near St. Paul’s Cathedral.  According to an 1833[4] newspaper article the name changed to Groucock, Copestake, & Moore when George Moore joined the business in the early 1830’s and became a partner.  It was listed as such for the first time in a London city directory in 1835[5] which indicated it was now a lace manufacturer at 5 Bow Church Yard, a block east of St. Paul’s Cathedral and next to the St. Mary-le-Bow church.  At first Mr. Groucock acted as a commercial traveler (aka traveling salesman), a role Mr. Moore assumed initially when he joined the firm[6].  By 1845[7] the business expanded significantly, and a factory was built that year in Nottingham, a city 123 miles northwest of London.  Most likely Nottingham was selected for two reasons 1) because Mr. Copestake was originally from that area, and 2) Nottingham was known during the Industrial Revolution as the center for the textile industry becoming an international center for lace manufacturing[8].

 

Sometime in the 1840’s Thomas Hill Crampton joined the firm as a commercial traveler and in 1847[9] became a partner.  A few years later, after Richard Groucock died in 1853[10], the firm’s name changed and by 1855[11] it was listed as Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.  By 1856[12] the building at 5 Bow Churchyard expanded out to 62 Bread Street on one side and 50 Cheapside on the other becoming a large warehouse at the corner of these three streets.  The firm also had shops at 12 Warwick Square and 10 Milton Street in Cripplegate and was listed that year as “lace and sewed muslin manufacturers & warehousemen”. The 1860’s drawing[13] pictured here shows the firm’s warehouse at 5 Bow Churchyard on the right with the St Mary-le-Bow church on the left.  In addition to their warehouse in London and factory in Nottingham, by 1868[14] the company had establishments in Glasgow, Scotland, Manchester, England and Paris, France.  The business was best described in the mid 1870’s as follows:

            From an 1881[15] biography of George Moore which includes this 1874 quote

“The following description of the house of Messrs. Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co., written by a very graphic pen in 1874, will give some idea of the extend of the business in the hands of the firm:”

 

“Ninety clerks, with flying pens, endeavour to overtake on the ground-floor the business transactions carried on upstairs, and at the other establishments of the firm.  Three hundred young men are daily summoned by the sound of Bow bells overhead, to a substantial dinner.  The magnitude of the operations of the firm, and the immense amount of money they turn over every year may be conjectured when we state that the sum paid in business expense by Messrs. Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co., exceeds one hundred thousand pounds per annum.  The City warehouse is only the City depot of the manufactures, agencies and establishments of the firm..  An immense chief manufactory at Nottingham, a branch warehouse at Glasgow, and a fourth at Paris, produce most of the numerous articles in which they deal.  New York and Philadelphia also fall within the list.  In all they have seventeen branches.  Their travellers – thirty in number – traverse the country in every direction, while foreign correspondents seem to complete a kind of universal chain of commercial intercourse.”

 

From an 1875[16] London City Directory

“Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. wholesale warehousemen for lace & sewed muslins, scotch & manchester goods, cambrics & lawns, curtains, silks, crapes, gossamers, velvets, gloves, stays, artificial flowers, feathers, millinery, babylinen, ladies’ outfitting, mantles, shawls, costumes, haberdashery, men’s outfitting, umbrellas & parasols, 5 Bow churchyard E C; 50 Cheapside E C & 58 to 63 Bread Street E C.”

 

Major changes in the company’s leadership occurred during the fourth quarter of the 19th century.   Apparently after Samuel Copestake Sr. died in 1874[17], his only child, Samuel Jr., seems to have taken over his father’s part of the business although he became a barrister and was never listed as a warehouseman[18].  Two years later George Moore died in 1876[19] with no children to carry on his role in the company.  Another man named James Hughes became involved in the business around this time and by 1878[20] its name was incorrectly listed in a newspaper as Copestake, Crampton, Hughes & Co.  Then in 1879[21], after Thomas Hill Crampton died, his three sons, Alfred, Henry and Percy took over his position in the firm.  The firm’s name was listed as Copestake, Hughes, Crampton & Co. in city directories from 1880[22] until at least 1884[23].  In 1883 and 1884[24] the business registered over 50 designs for various textile products using this new name.  After Mr. Hughes’s death in 1888[25], a Mr. Lindsey joined the firm and it was renamed again, this time it became Copestake, Lindsey, Crampton & Co. which is how it was listed in an 1888[26] newspaper article and in an 1890[27] city directory, a name it continued to be listed as in newspapers through 1902[28].  Unfortunately, because Lindsey is a fairly common surname in the London area, more details about him have not been found.

 

From 1851 to 1878 this firm participated in six major international exhibitions:  1851[29] and 1862[30] in London; 1855[31], 1867[32] and 1878[33] in Paris, France; and in 1873[34] in Vienna, Austria.  During those events they won a number of metals for their lace products including a gold medal in 1878.  As a result, they added this information to their company letter head so all of their customers could see how successful they were.  Below is a copy of an invoice from the early 1900’s[35] displaying this information.

 

Sometime between 1902 and 1905 Mr. Lindsey left the firm and its name changed again most likely because Sampson Copestake Jr. and two of Thomas Hill Crampton sons, Alfred and Percy, were now managing the business.  By 1905[36] it was listed as Copestake, Crampton & Co. with Alfred’s son Charles Buchanan Crampton and two of Percy’s sons, Roy Crampton and Hubert Crampton, having joined the business by then.  In 1917[37] Sampson Copestake Jr. died, having never married and having no descendants to carry on.  Three years later in October 1920[38] the business became a limited liability firm with the name Copestake, Crampton & Co. Ltd.  Alfred Crampton became the chairman, Percy Crampton the vice-chairman, and Roy and Hubert Crampton were directors.  Presumably the name did not change after Mr. Copestake’s death because the firm was so well known with his name.  A resolution was made in 1935[39] by the shareholders to liquidate the company but it was defeated, and the business carried on.  In 1938[40] it was listed in a newspaper as having a factory in Nottingham and a warehouse in London.  Two years later with the 1940 London Blitz of World War II, the area around St. Paul’s cathedral was heavily destroyed, as seen in the photograph[41] here, which included the firm’s Bow Churchyard warehouse, the red arrow pointing to where the warehouse was located.  As a result, all of the company’s business was moved to Nottingham by 1956[42].  During the two decades following World War II, the textile industry in the UK significantly declined[43] and in 1970[44] Copestake, Crampton & Co. Ltd was dissolved.

 

The Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. name was stamped on 11 Avery style needle cases designed between 1869 and 1874 by William Avery of Redditch or his Birmingham die sinker Buncher & Haseler.  They were the: Athena Golden, Butterfly, Butterfly Box-Oval Tub, Demi Quad-Minerva, Horseshoe, Minerva Lever, Minerva Pincher, Pyramid Pin case, Quadruple-Minerva Lever Casket. Scallop Shell and the Walnut on Leaf.  Although two other London companies had their names stamped on more Avery needle case designs, Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. is the only one to have a truly unique design stamped on many of these needle cases.  The Minerva symbol, seen here in close-up detailed photographs of these needle cases, can be found on 7 of these 11 designs.  Individual photographs of these actual needle cases are included in the Images section of this chapter.

 

 

The Groucock Owners[45]

Richard Groucock was born c1801 and was baptized that year in Shropshire.  He was the son of a farmer named John Groucock and his wife Ann.  At some point in the 1820’s Richard moved to London, established a lace manufacturing business with another man and settled in the Camberwell section of south London.  In 1841[46] Richard was listed as a laceman living with a group of drapers in Worcester, 112 miles northwest of London, probably acting as a commercial traveler most likely arranging for the sale of lace to them.  Later in 1841 he married Elizabeth Emma Rigbey, nee Foard, in Walcot, Somerset, a town near Bath, 106 miles west of London and 64 miles south of Worcester.  A woman named Sarah Crampton was present at their marriage, possibly a relation to the Crampton’s who later joined his lace manufacturing business.  How Richard and Elizabeth met is unknown, possibly it was an arranged marriage, or they met during one of Richard’s visits to the area because he initially worked as a traveling salesman[47] for his lace manufacturing company.  After their marriage Richard and Elizabeth returned to London and settled at Herne Hill, Surrey, in Camberwell where their 4 children were born between 1843 and 1847: Richard Foard, Louisa Anne, John Charles and George Frederick who died at age 1.  While Richard travelled his wife remained in the London area with the children.  She died at Herne Hill in 1848 at age 35 and was buried at the Norwood Cemetery in the Lambeth section of south London.  In 1851 Richard was listed as a merchant while visiting Barony, Lancashire in Scotland, near Glasgow, 388 miles northwest of London, again with a group of men and woman possibly factory workers, presumably on business there.  Richard died in 1853 at age 53, by hanging himself during temporary insanity, in Waters Upton, Salop[48] also known as upper Shropshire, 149 miles northwest of London, while visiting the area where he was born.  His body was returned to the London area, and he was also buried at the Norwood Cemetery.  His estate, which included his portion of the business at Bow Churchyard and his home in Herne Hill, was probated in 1853 and both his business partners, Sampson Copestake and George Moore, were listed in his will.  Richard’s eldest surviving son, Richard Foard Groucock who was born in 1843, was a student visiting and living with George Moore in 1861 but died a year later at age 19.  Richard Sr.’s youngest surviving son, John Charles Groucock who was born in 1845, was living as a gentleman in 1883 when he married Isabella Grubb at St. James in Westminster.  John Charles died seven years later in 1890 at age 44.

 

The Copestake Owners[49]

Sampson Copestake was born c1800 and baptized in 1800 in Snelston, Derbyshire, a town 135 miles northwest of London and 30 miles west of Nottingham, the son of Sampson and Mary Copestake.  Sometime during the 1820’s Sampson moved to London and established a lace manufacturing business with his first partner Richard Groucock.  In 1824 he married Ann Mee at St. Peter Cheapside, a church less than half a mile east of St. Paul’s Cathedral.  At first Sampson and Ann lived a couple miles northwest in the Kentish Town section of London, an area roughly a mile and a half north of Regents Parks where there only child; Sampson Jr. was born in 1838.  Later the family moved to Fitzroy Place in St. Pancreas, Marylebone where Ann died in 1863 at age 68.  In 1871 Sampson Sr. and his son were living at Highgate Hill in the same section of London.  Sampson Sr. was consistently listed as a merchant or lace merchant.   He died in 1874 at his home known as The Grove on Highgate Hill at age 73 and was buried at the Highgate Cemetery West.  His gravestone is pictured here[50].   Sampson Sr.’s degree of success and wealth can be best seen in his probate record as his estate was valued at £600,000 (£37,565,400 today[51]) which passed to his son Sampson Jr.  A transcribed copy of his death notice from a newspaper is listed below.

 

The Cornish Telegraph newspaper dated February 11, 1874, page 4, column 7[52]

“DEATH OF MR, COPESTAKE – Mr. Sampson Copestake, the senior partner in the large firm of Copestake, Moore, and Co., of Cheapside, died suddenly at his residence, The Grove, Highgate-road, on Tuesday last.  Mr. Copestake had attended to business as usual on the day preceding, when he appeared in good health, and literally only got out of his bed on Tuesday to die,  Mr. Copestake’s regular attendance at business was somewhat remarkable, for although, upon the appointment of additional junior partners some years ago, the labours of senior partners were vey much lightened, it seemed to make no difference to Mr. Copestake, who appeared to feel more at home in his warehouse than anywhere else, and who seldom missed a day from it, except when taking a little relaxation at his place at Sevenoaks.  Mr. Copestake was a widower, having lost his wife about ten or eleven years ago.”

 

The only child of Sampson and Ann Copestake, Sampson Jr.[53] was born in 1838.  He was baptized less than a month after his birth at the Old Church, St. Pancreas.  Sometime between age 12 and 22 he went to Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree by 1861.  In 1871 he was living with his father and was listed as a barrister.  Sampson never married.  After his father’s death in 1874 he moved to Shermanbury, Sussex, a town 42 miles south of London and was listed in 1881 as a barrister at law with an MA from Christ College in Cambridge.  By 1891 he moved again this time to the seaside resort of Hove, Sussex, 51 miles south of London, where he remained for the rest of his life.  Although Sampson Jr. was consistently listed as a barrister, it seems most likely that he played some role in the Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. business because it did not change its name after his father died in 1874 like it did shortly after other partners associated with the firm died.  Perhaps Sampson Jr. was the barrister for the firm.  Another clue that indicates Sampson Jr. was somehow involved with the company is that when he died in 1917 at age 78, he left an estate valued at £119,757 to Alfred and Percy Crampton who were the main owners of Copestake, Crampton & Co. at the time of his death. 

 

The Moore Owners[54]

George Moore was born and baptized in 1806 in Mealsgate, Cumberland, a town 291 miles northwest of London, the son of John Moore, a small landowner and Peggy Lowes.  Like his business partners he also moved to London in the 1820’s and settled in the Marylebone section of the city.  After becoming a partner in the lace manufacturing business in 1830[55] he spent his early years with the company traveling around the UK promoting the firm’s products and significantly contributed to the success of the business.  In 1839 he married Eliza Flint Ray at St. Mary in the Finchley section of London, and they lived in Paddington for a few years before moving to a mansion at 15 Kensington Palace Gardens in Westminster, just a couple blocks northwest of Kensington Palace.  In 1844 George traveled to the United States and Canada for two and a half months combining business and pleasure.  His wife Eliza died at their London home at age 43 in 1858 and 3 years later in 1861 George, pictured here on the left[56],  married his second wife, Agnes Jane Breek, pictured on the right[57], who was 27 years younger than him, at St. Pancreas.  George had no children by either of his wives.  In addition to the mansion at Kensington Place Gardens, George also had an estate known as Whitehall built in 1856 at his hometown of Mealsgate, Cumberland where he spent some of his time.  The two drawings of the Whitehall estate seen on the left and right below were made in 1865[58].  Throughout his life George contributed to many charitable events and organizations.  More details regarding his life can be found in the book entitled George Moore Merchant and Philanthropist written by Samuel Smiles in 1878 and at the website known as The George Moore Connection at http://www.mealsgate.org.uk/.

In 1876 while living at Whitehall, George traveled to Carlisle, a major city only 16 miles north of Mealsgate and while there he was involved in an accident[59].  After he parted from a visit with a friend, two young horses broke loose from a nearby livery stable, galloped down the street and one of them knocked Mr. Moore down.  Although he was removed to a neighboring hotel, received medical assistance and regained consciousness, he died shortly thereafter from the injuries he received during the accident.  He was 71 years old.  His body was buried at the Old All Hallows Churchyard at Whitehall.  George left an estate valued at £500,000 (£33,092,350 today[60]).  After his death his wife Agnes had a special memorial in George’s honor built in 1879 in the center of the town of Mealsgate which is known as The George Moore Memorial Hall, pictured here on the right[61].  By 1881 Agnes was living at Whitehall where she died 7 years later in 1888 at age 55 leaving an estate valued at £89,346.  George’s obituary is listed below.

 

 

Illustrated London News newspaper dated November 25, 1876, page 24, column 1[62]

“MR. G. MOORE.

Mr. George Moore died, on Tuesday, from the effects of the injuries received by being knocked down by a horse in Carlisle on Monday.  Mr. Moore was born, in 1807, in Cumberland, where his father was a yeoman or small landowner.  He entered a house of business in London in 1825 and become in 1830 a junior partner in the firm of Groucock, Copestake, and Co., lace and sewn muslin manufacturers.  During his connection with the firm, which subsequently assumed the name of Copestake, Moore, and Co., the business was greatly extended, and it now had factories at Nottingham, Manchester, Paris, and New York.  Mr. Moore was well known as a practical philanthropist, and had a large share in the foundation of the Commercial Travellers’ School at Pinner, and other institutions.  About eight years ago he built a church – Christ Church, Somers Town – and schools entirely at his own cost.  He went with Colonel Stuart Wortley to Paris on the cessation of the siege in 1871, and administered the fund raised to relive the distressed population.  Mr. Moore was often pressed to accept municipal honours, and also to enter Parliament, but he uniformly declined.  In 1844 he was elected Sheriff of the city of London, but preferred to pay the fine of £500 to accepting the office.”

 

The Crampton Owners[63]

Thomas Hill Crampton was born in 1805 in Barnard Castle, Durham, a town 251 miles northwest of London.  He married Sarah Street in 1839 in Exeter, Devon, 107 miles southwest of London. Thomas and Sarah were living in Bath, Somerset where there 2 children were born in 1841 and 1842: Thomas Groucock who died within a month of his birth and Amy.  Because their son’s middle name was Groucock, a rather unusual name, and the fact that Thomas’s wife Sarah may have attended Richard Groucock’s 1841 marriage ceremony, it seems most likely that the Crampton and Groucock families were related in some way which could explain why Thomas jointed the London lace manufacturing business.  Less than a year after their second child’s birth, Sarah died in Bath at age 25 in 1843.  Three years later in 1846, while living in Bath, Thomas traveled to Bristol, 12 miles northwest of Bath and married his second wife Mary Bell.  At the time Thomas was working as a commercial traveler probably for the Groucock, Copestake, Moore & Co.  By 1848 the family moved to the Clerkenwell section of London, about a mile and a half northwest of St. Paul’s Cathedral where 4 of their children were born between 1848 and 1852: Louisa, Charles Stratter, Alfred and Kate who died shortly after birth.  By 1853 the family moved to Highbury Grove in Islington, 3 miles north of St. Paul’s Cathedral where 3 additional children were born between 1853 and 1856: Walter, Henry and Percy.  Around this time Thomas became a partner and the business he worked for became known as Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.  After moving to London, Thomas was consistently listed as a merchant, lace merchant or merchant muslin & c.  Then in 1879 while visiting Brighton, Sussex, 52 miles south of London, Thomas died at age 73.  His body was returned to London and he was buried at the Highgate Cemetery West in the Camden section of London.  Thomas achieved a high level of success and was listed as an esquire in his probate record and left a personal estate of £140,000 to his wife.  After his death his wife moved 7 miles south to Sydenham in the Lewisham section of south London where she spent the rest of her life.  Mary died there in 1914 at age 98 leaving an estate valued at £47,605 to her sons Alfred and Percy.  Both Thomas and Mary’s names are inscribed on the obelisk shaped gravestone seen here[64] at the Highgate Cemetery West as are two of his daughters.  Kate, his youngest daughter with his second wife, died in 1852 seven months after her birth and his eldest daughter, Amy by his first wife who was born in 1842 and never married, died at age 82 in 1925.   What follows is Thomas’s death notice from a newspaper.

 

Bristol Mercury newspaper dated February 19, 1879, page 7, column 2[65]

“THE LATE MR. CRAMPTON. – The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Hill Crampton, of the firm Messrs. Copestake, Hughes, Crampton, and Co., London.  Mr. Crampton, who was in his 74th year, had been connected with the firm for many years, and had been a partner for 33 years.  Although Mr. Crampton’s name was not so much before the public as those of his partners, it would be difficult to overstate the sterling worth of his character.  He displayed consummate business tact and ability, which would have gained him a high position in almost any career; while his generosity in private life, and his unceasing acts of kindness to, and consideration for, the staff of the establishment made him beloved by all with who he came in contact.”

 

Of the five surviving sons of Thomas Hill Crampton, only three became involved in the family’s lace manufacturing business.  The eldest, Charles Stather who was born in 1849, left the London area and traveled to Australia where he died at age 25 in 1874.  The middle son, Walter who was born in 1853, pursed a career as a solicitor and died in 1892 at age 39 in Hastings.  The second son Alfred, the 4th son Henry who was born in 1854 and the youngest son Percy, all spent their working lives in the family business. They were most often listed as merchants, warehousemen or lace manufacturers.  Whereas Alfred and Percy appear to have taken over their father’s role in the company after his death in 1879, Henry continued to live with his mother and appears to only have worked for the company for a few years as he was listed as a warehouseman and shipping merchant in 1881 at age 26 but by 1891 he was living on his own means before he died later that year.

 

Alfred Crampton was born in 1850 in Clerkenwell and by the time he was 20 in 1871 he was working as a laceman.  Alfred married Mary Elizabeth Buchanan in 1874 in Islington later moving to the Paddington section of London and after a few years there, to Kensington.  Alfred and Mary had 5 children of which only 4 have been identified: Charles Buchanan, Maude Amy, Ethel Mary and Margaret.  During his working years Alfred was consistently listed as a warehouseman and/or a lace manufacturer employer.  In 1901 the family was staying at a hotel in Tunbridge Wells, presumable on a family vacation, whereas in 1911 while Mary was living at a boarding place in London with a medical practitioner and others, Alfred was at another hotel in London with his daughter Maude.  Apparently, his wife was ill at the time and needed constant medical attention, Mary died in 1915 in Kensington at age 62 and was buried at the Brompton Cemetery.  Eighteen years later Alfred died at his home in Kensington at age 82 in 1933.  His probate records listed both his business at 5 Bow Churchyard and his home in Kensington.  His estate, valued at £117,269, was passed to his nephew Hubert Crampton who at the time of his uncle’s death was a company director at Copestake, Crampton & Co.  Alfred’s own son Charles Buchanan Crampton appears to have also worked for Copestake, Crampton & Co. for a number of years until his death in 1937 at age 62 although it is unclear exactly what position he held.

 

The youngest son of Thomas Hill Crampton and his wife Mary was Percy Crampton who was born in Islington in 1856.  At age 21 in 1877 he married Catherine Florence Sturt in Lewisham and 4 years later at age 25 he became a member of the freemason Carnarvon Lodge where he was listed as a merchant.  The family lived in Penge, Surrey in Croydon and later in Lewisham, in the Islington section of south London.   Percy and Catherine had 5 children born between 1878 and 1883: Harold Percy, Kathleen Margaret, Dorothy, Roy and Hubert.  By 1911 the family moved to Hampstead where Percy was listed as a merchant and soft goods wholesale drapery and lace employer and was a company director.  He died in 1921 at age 65 in Eastbourne, Sussex.  His probate also listed both his business at 5 Bow Churchyard and his home in Hampstead with an estate valued at £80,862 which he left to his wife, brother Alfred and his 3 sons: Harold, Roy and Hubert.  Percy’s wife Catherine died 20 years later in 1940 and left her estate of £9,441 to her youngest son Hubert who was listed that year as a company directory.  Of Percy’s 3 sons the eldest, Harold Percy who was born in 1878, became a medical practitioner whereas the two youngest sons, Roy and Hubert, spent their entire lives working in the Copestake, Crampton & Co. business  After the company became a limited liability company Roy became a director of the company a position he held until his death in 1939 when both the business at Bow Churchyard and his home in Hampstead were listed in his estate which was valued at £12,463.  Hubert also became a company director a position he appears to have held until at least 1942 when he was mentioned as a company director in his wife’s probate.  Hubert died in 1953 and left as estate valued at £21,012.

 

The Hughes Owners[66]

(Note: Because the name James Hughes is very common, this man is only possibly the James Hughes who was a partner in Copestake, Hughes, Crampton & Co.  According to a search on ancestry.com for James Hughes, this is the only person found in the 1881 Census in the London area with the name James Hughes who was working as a warehouseman).

 

James Lewis Hughes was born in 1843 at Limehouse in the Towers Hamlet section of London, the son of William John and Harriet Hughes.  His father was a carpenter and joiner and both of his parents were born in South Wales.  By the time he was 18 years old in 1861 James was working as a junior clerk, however in 1864 when he married Ann Riddle Hall at St. Marylebone he was working as a stationer.  A stationer[67] was a person who sold paper, envelopes and pens and other items used in writing.  James and Ann had 3 children between 1865 and 1872: William James, Annie Harriett and Robert Archibald who died shortly after birth.  The family lived in Shoreditch. a mile and a half northeast of St. Paul’s Cathedral, for a few years where Ann died at age 33 in 1874, approximately two years after the birth of their last child.  Two years later in 1876 James married his second wife Thomasine Sarah Carr in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, a coastal town 125 miles northeast of London.  After their marriage they returned to Shoreditch where James and Thomasine had 4 children: Alice Maude Elizabeth who died shortly after birth, Ada Thomasina, Arthur Lewis and Gertrude Sarah Carr.  In 1880[68] James was listed in a city directory as an esquire at 5 Bow Churchyard and in the 1881 census was listed as a warehouseman indicating he joined the Copestake & Crampton business sometime before 1880.  James died in 1888 in Hackney at age 45 and was buried at Chingford Mount Cemetery in London.  His second wife, Thomasina who was originally born in Great Yarmouth, returned to her hometown after her husband’s death and in 1891 married her second husband Frederick Blake in 1891.  She died there in 1893 at age 38.

 

 

Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.: Images

 

Athena Golden needle case registered in 1869.

 

Butterfly needle case registered in 1871.

 

Butterfly Box - Oval Tub registered in 1872.

 

Detail of the Athena Golden with the company name.

 

Back of the Butterfly with the company name (photo from eBay).

 

Butterfly Box - Oval tub bottom with the company name (photo from the eBay).

 

Demi-Quad Minerva registered in 1869.

 

Horseshoe needle case registered in 1874.

 

Minerva Lever needle case registered in 1868.

 

Demi-Quad Minerva with company name.

 

Horseshoe back with the company name (photo from eBay).

 

Minerva Lever back detail with the company name.

 

Minerva Pincer needle case closed registered in 1870.

 

Pyramid needle case registered in 1872.

 

Quadruple - Minerva Lever Casket registered in 1868.

 

Minerva Pincer open.

 

Pyramid bottom with the company name (photo from eBay).

 

Quadruple - Minerva Lever Casket detail with the company name.

 

Scallop Shell needle case registered in 1871.

 

Walnut on Leaf needle case registered in 1873.

 

Bow Churchyard street sign, 2015.

 

Scallop Shell interior with the company name (photo from eBay).

 

Walnut on Leaf bottom with the company name (photo from Victoria Stenhouse).

 

Southwest side of Bow Churchyard, 2015.

 

St. Mary-le-Bow church on the south east corrner of Cheapside Street where it intersects with Bow Churchyard, 2023.

 

St. Mary-le-Bow Church interior, 2015.

 

Statue of Captain John Smith in the center of Bow Churchyard, 2023.  Captain Smith established the first colony in the USA in 1606.

 

Breaed Street sign, 2023.

 

The building on the right is where the Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. wareshouse was originally located, on Cheapside Street between Bread Street and Bow Churchyard, 2023.

 

View of Cheapside Street at the intersection with Bow Churchyard, 2015.

 

Whitehall sign in Mealsgate, 2018.

 

Old All Hallows Church at Whitehall, 2018.

 

The George Moore Memorial Hall 1879 building sign, 2018.

 

The Whitehall estate in Mealsgate, 2018.

 

Countryside around Whilehall, 2018.

 

Side view of George Moore Memorial Hall, Mealsgate,  2018.

 

Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.: Genealogy

 

Richard Groucock (c1801-1853) and Elizabeth Emma Foard (c1813-1848)

·       Born: c1801 (S1c)

·       Baptized: August 12, 1801 Shropshire (S=Shropshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1812 available at ancestry.com).  Listed as Richd. Groucock with parents John and Ann Groucock.

·       1841 Census: The Cross, St. Nicholas, city and borough of Worcester.  Listed as Richard Groucock age 40 a laceman not born in the county living with a group of drapers, possibly in a factory. (Note: the surname is incorrectly listed in the census index as Growcock).

·       Marriage: September 16, 1841 Walcot, Somerset (S8m).  Listed as Richard Groucock a bachelor and merchant who resided at Camberwell, Surrey whose father was John Groucock a farmer and Elizabeth Emma Rigby a widow whose father was Robert Foard.  Also, a Sarah Crampton was listed on the marriage record as being present at the marriage.

·       Wife’s Death: November 17, 1848 Lambeth, London (S8d).  Listed as Elizabeth Emma Groucock age 35 the wife of Richard Groucock a merchant who died of phthisis at Herne Hill, Brixton, Surrey.

·       Wife’s Burial: November 24, 1848 Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth (S1burial).  Listed as Elizabeth Emma Groucock age 35 of Herne Hill, Surrey.

·       Wife’s Probate: not found.

·       1851 Census:  129 Bath St., Barony, Lanarkshire (S=1851 Scotland Census available at ancestry.com).  Listed as Richard Growcock age 50 a visitor and merchant born in Shropshire with a group of men and woman possible factory workers.

·       1851 Children’s Census: not found. 

·       Death: July 26, 1853 Wellington (Salop) Union (S8d).  Listed as Richard Growcock age 53 a lace manufacturer who died by hanging himself during temporary insanity at Waters Upton, Ercall Magna, Salop.

·       Burial: August 1, 1853 Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth (S1burial).  Listed as Richard Groucock age 52 of Herne Hill, Lambeth removed from Upton Salop.

·       Probate:  September 16, 1853, Will dated October 2, 1852 with Codicil dated January 27, 1853 (S6).  Listed as Richard Groucock of Bow Church Yard, London and Herne Hill, Surrey, a lace manufacturer.  Sampson Copestake and George Moore of 5 Bow Church Yard are mentioned in his will.

·       Children:

1.     Richard Foard Groucock (1843-1862).  Born: 1st QTR 1843 Camberwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Richard Foard Groucock with mother’s maiden name Foard.  1861 Census: living with George Moore (S4), listed as Richard Groucock age 18 a visitor and student born in Dulwich, Surrey.  Death: 2nd QTR 1862 Christchurch, Hampstead (S5d), listed as Richard Foard Groucock.  Burial: May 15, 1862 Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth, listed as Richard Feard Groucock of Bournemouth Hants age 19.

2.     Louisa Anne Groucock (1844-??).  Born: 3rd QTR 1844 Camberwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Luisa Anne Groncock with mother’s maiden name Foard.  Baptized: March 28, 1845 St. Paul, Herne Hill, Surrey (S1c), listed as Louisa Ann with parents Richard and Elizabeth Emma Groucock who resided at Dulwich with father’s occupation listed as merchant.

3.     John Charles Groucock (1845-1890).  Born: 3rd QTR 1845 Camberwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as John Charles Groncock with mother’s maiden name Foard.  Baptized: December 17, 1845 St. Paul, Herne Hill, Surrey (S1c), listed as John Charles with parents Richard and Elizabeth Emma Groucock who resided at Dulwich with father’s occupation listed as merchant.  Married: July 12, 1883 St. James Westminster (S8m), listed as John Charles Groucock a bachelor and gentleman who resided at St. James’s whose father was Richard Groucock a merchant and Isabella Grubb a widow.  Death: 1st QTR 1890 Strand (S5d), listed as John Charles Groucock age 44.

4.     George Frederick Groucock (1847-1849).  Born: 3rd QTR 1847 Camberwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as George Frederick Grancock with mother’s maiden name Foard.  Baptized: September 16, 1847 St. Paul, Herne Hill, Surrey (S1c), listed as George Frederic with parents Richard and Elizabeth Emma Groucock who resided at Dulwich with father’s occupation listed as merchant.  Death: 1st QTR 1849 Lambeth (S5d), listed as George Frederick Groucock age 1.

 

Copestake Generation 1: Sampson Copestake Sr. (c1800-1874) and Ann Mee (c1794-1863

·       Born: c1800 (S1c).

·       Baptized: October 5, 1800 Snelston, Derbyshire (S1c).  Listed as Sampson son of Sampson and Mary Copestake.

·       Marriage: December 9, 1824 St. Peter, Cheapside, London (S3).  Listed as Sampson Copestake a bachelor and Ann Mee a spinster (note: the top of the marriage record also lists the marriage place as St. Matthew, Friday Street, London).

·       1841 Census: Great Green Street, Kentish Town, St. Pancreas, Marylebone (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake age 41 a merchant not born in the county with Ann age 46 not born in the county and Sampson age 3 born in the county and possible 4 servants (Note: the servants are not listed in the census index but appear to be living in the same household as the Copestake family).

·       1851 Census: 11 Fitzroy Place, St. Pancreas (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake age 50 a merchant born Snelston, Derbyshire with wife Ann age 55 born Desereworth, Leicestershire and 1 child: Sampson age 12 born in St. Pancreas, Middlesex, 1 visitor and 1 servant.

·       1861 Census: 11 Fitzroy Place, St. Pancreas (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake age 60 a lace merchant born Snelston, Derbyshire with wife Ann age 66 born Desereworth, Leicestershire and 1 child: Sampson age 22 a bachelor of arts at Cambridge born in Kentish Town, Middlesex, 1 niece, 2 visitors and 3 servants.

·       Wife’s Death: October 13, 1863 St. Pancreas (S8d).  Listed as Ann Copestake age 68 the wife of Sampson Copestake a lace merchant who died of softening of the brain and paralysis at 10 Fitzroy Place, Kentish Town, Middlesex.

·       Wife’s Burial:  not found.

·       Wife’s Probate: not found.

·       1871 Census: 1 The Grove, Highgate Hill, St. Pancreas, Marylebone (S4).   Listed as Sampson Copestake age 70 a widower and merchant born Snelston, Derbyshire with son: Sampson unmarried age 32 a barrister born in St Pancreas, Middlesex and 5 servants.

·       Death:  February 3, 1874 Pancreas, Marylebone (S8d), listed as Sampson Copestake age 73 a lace merchant who died of catarrh and bronchitis at The Grove, Highgate Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex.  February 3, 1874 at The Grove (S6).

·       Grave: Highgate Cemetery West, Camden London (S=UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current available at ancestry.com).  Listed as Sampson Copestake born in 1800 at Snelston, Derbyshire and died February 3, 1874 in Kentish Town, London.

·       Probate: February 23, 1874 Principal Registry (S6).  Listed as Sampson Copestake late of 5 Bow Church Yard, London and the Grove, Highgate Road, Middlesex a lace merchant with effects under £700,000 resworn October 1875 under £600,000 to Sampson Copestake of 3 Doctor Johnson’s buildings Inner Temple, London a barrister at law the son and executor.

·       Children:

o   Sampson Copestake Jr. (1838-1917) - See Copestake Generation 2.

 

Copestake Generation 2: Sampson Copestake Jr. (1838-1917)

·       Born: April 16, 1838 (S1c).

·       Baptized: May 9, 1838 Old Church, St. Pancreas, Middlesex(S1c).  Listed as Sampson son of Sampson and Ann Copestake of Kentish Town and Bow Church Yard with father’s occupation listed as warehouseman. (Note:  there are two separate copies of this baptism done in different handwriting and one has more information than the other).

·       1841 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake age 3 born in the county.

·       1851 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake age 12 a scholar born St. Pancreas.

·       1861 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake unmarried age 22 a bachelor of arts in Cambridge born Kentish Town, Middlesex.

·       1871 Census: with father (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake unmarried age 32 a barrister born St. Pancreas.

·       Marriage: never married

·       1881 Census: 30 Mansion, Shermanbury, Steyning, Sussex (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake unmarried age 42 a barrister at law with an MA Christ College in Cambridge born St. Pancreas, London living with 4 visitors and 4 servants.

·       1891 Census: Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Steyning, Sussex (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake single boarder age 52 a solicitor barrister at law born St. Pancreas, London living with many others.

·       1901 Census: 38 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Steyning, Sussex (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake single age 62 a retired solicitor barrister not in practice born Marylebone, London living with 2 boarders, 2 visitors and 7 servants.

·       1911 Census: 1 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Brighton, Sussex (S4).  Listed as Sampson Copestake single age 72 a barrister born Kentish Town, London living with 2 visitors and 6 servants.

·       Death: March 3, 1917 Steyning, Sussex (S8d), listed as Sampson Copestake age 78 a barrister at law who died of cardio vascular degeneration at 8 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex.   March 3, 1917 (S6).

·       Burial: not found.

·       Probate: April 28, 1917 London (S6).  Listed as Sampson Copestake of 1 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex with effects £119,757 to Alfred Crampton and Percy Crampton warehousemen.

·       Children: none.

 

George Moore (1806-1876) and Eliza Flint Ray (c1815-1858) and Agnes Jane Breeks (c1833-1888)

·       Born: April 9, 1806 (S1c).

·       Baptized: December 25, 1806 Bolton Parish, Cumberland (S1c).  Listed as George Moore with parents John Moore and Peggy Lowes

·       1st Marriage: August 27, 1839 St. Mary, Finchley, Middlesex (S8m).  Listed as George Moore a bachelor and lace merchant who resided at St. Marylebone, London whose father was John a gentleman and Eliza Flint Ray a spinster.

·       1841 Census: not found.

·       1851 Census: 68 Oxford Terrace, Paddington, Marylebone (S4).  Listed as George Moore age 44 a lace merchant born in Mealsgate, Cumberland with wife Eliza F. age 35 born in Finchley, Middlesex and 3 servants and a widow Eliza Ray age 65 born in London. 

·       1st Wife’s Death: December 4, 1858 Westminster (S8d), listed as Eliza Flint Moore age 43 the wife of George Moore Esquire who died of disease of the womb at 15 Palace Gardens, Westminster.  December 4, 1858 at Kensington Palace Gardens, Middlesex  (S6).

·       1st Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       1st Wife’s Probate:  March 5, 1860 Principal Registry (S6).  Listed as Eliza Flint Moore, wife of George Moore Esquire late of Kensington Palace Gardens, Middlesex with effects under £2,000 to the said George Moore of Kensington Palace Gardens.

·       1861 Census: 15 P. Gders, Westminster (S4).  Listed as George Moore a widower age 54 a lace merchant and manufacturer born in Mealsgate, Cumberland with sister Mary Barnes age 53 born in Mealsgate, 1 niece Mary Brockbank age 29 born in Mealsgate, 1 sister-in-law Sarah Moore age 64 born in Mealsgate, 1 visitor Richard Groucock age 18 a student born in Dulwich, Surrey and 9 servants and their children.

·       2nd Marriage: November 28, 1861, St. Pancreas, Middlesex (S8m).  Listed as George Moore a widower and merchant who resided at St. Margaret, Westminster whose father was John Moore dead and Agnes Jane Breeks a spinster.

·       1871 Census: 15 Palace Gardens, Westminster (S4).  Listed as George Moore age 62 a merchant and magistrate born in Mealsgate, Cumberland with wife Agnes J. age 36 born in Warcoss, Westmoreland and 7 servants.

·       Death: November 21, 1876 Carlisle, Cumberland (S8d), listed as George Moore age 71 a magistrate of the county of Cumberland and a London merchant who died after being knocked down on November 20th and fatally injured by a runaway horse at the Gray Goat Hotel in Carlisle.  November 21, 1876 Carlisle, Cumberland (S6).

·       Grave: Old All Hallows Churchyard, Mealsgate, Cumbria (S=UK, and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current available at ancestry.com).   Listed as George Moore born April 9, 1806 in Mealsgate and died November 21, 1876 in Carlisle.

·       Probate: December 15, 1876 Principal Registry (S6).  Listed as George Moore late of Bow Church Yard, London and Kensington Palace Gardens, Middlesex and of Whitehall, Cumberland Esquire with effects under £400,000 resworn August 1879 under £500,000 proved by Agnes Jane Moore of Kensington Palace Gardens and of Whitehall widow and Samuel Hope Morley, Samuel Porter Foster, William Parkin and Francis Napoleon Lamb.

·       1881 Census: 144 White Hall, Allhallaws, Wigton, Cumberland (S4).  Listed as Agnes J. Moore a widow age 45 life tenant of Whitehall estate born in Warcoss, Westmoreland and 5 servants.

·       2nd Wife’s Death: November 30, 1888 Wigton, Cumberland (S8d), listed as Agnes Jane Moore age 55 the widow of George Moore a warehouseman and yeoman who died of mitral cardiac disease and cerebral embolism at White Hall, Allhallows, Abbey Holme, Cumberland.   November 30, 1888 at Whitehall (S6).

·       2nd Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       2nd Wife’s Probate: January 12, 1889 Principle Registry (S6).  Listed as Agnes Jane Moore of Whitehall, Mealsgate, Carlisle, Cumberland a widow with a personal estate of £84,346 resworn June 1889 £89,346 effects proved by William Percival, Elizabeth Weston of Ash Bank, Penrith, Cumberland a widow and sister and William Parken of Whitehall, Esquire.

·       George Moore Biography: (S=Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1-22, pages 798 and 799 available on ancestry.com).

·       Children: none

 

Crampton Generation 1:  Thomas Hill Crampton (1805-1879) and Sarah Street (c1818-1843) and Mary Bell (c1816-1914)

·       Born: May 16,1805 (S1c).

·       Baptized: December 25, 1805 Barnard Castle, Durham (S1c).  Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton with parents James Crampton and Elizabeth Hill.

·       First Marriage: January 19, 1839 St. Martin, Exeter (S8m), listed as Thomas Hill Crampton a bachelor and laceman who resided in Bath whose father was James Crampton a soldier and Sarah Street a spinster who resided in Exeter.  January 1839 St. Martin, Exeter, Devon (S1m). 

·       1st Wife’s Death: November 18, 1843 Exeter (S8d), listed as Sarah Crampton age 25 the wife of Thomas Crampton a commercial traveler who died of consumption at Cathedral Yard, St. Martin, St. Sidwell, Exeter.

·       1st Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       1st Wife’s Probate: not found.

·       1841 Census: not found.

·       Second Marriage: April 16, 1846 St. Paul, Bristol (S8m).  Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton a widower and commercial traveller who resided at Halcot, Bath whose father was James Crampton a button manufacturer and Mary Bell.

·       1851 Census: 40 Holford Square, Clerkenwell, Finsbury (S4).  Listed as Thomas H. Crampton age 46 a lace merchant born in Barnard Castle, Durham with wife Mary age 35 born in Bristol and 3 children all born in Kentewith, Middlesex: Louisa, Charles S. and Alfred and 2 servants.

·       1861 Census: 4 Highbury Grove, Islington, Finsbury (S4).  Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton age 56 a merchant muslin & c born in Barnard Castle, Durham with wife Mary age 44 born in Bristol and 5 children: Charles Stather, Alfred, Percy, Ann and Henry, 4 visitors and 3 servants.  (Note: the census index incorrectly lists the surname as Crompton and three of the children’s surnames as Rampton and incorrectly lists the wife’s age as 66).

·       1871 Census: 32 Highbury Grove, Islington, Finsbury (S4).  Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton age 66 a lace merchant born in Barnard Castle, Durham with wife Mary age 55 born in Bristol and 4 children: Louisa, Alfred, Walter and Henry, 1 visitor and 4 servants.

·       Death: February 11, 1879 Brighton, Sussex (S5d), listed as Thomas Hill Crampton age 73 a gentleman who died of pulmonary congestion at 10 Regency Square, Brighton, Sussex with A. Crampton his son in attendance.  February 11, 1879 at 10 Regency Square, Brighton, Sussex (S6), 

·       Grave: Highgate Cemetery West, Camden, London (S=UK, and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current available at ancestry.com).   Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton who died February 11, 1879.

·       Probate: February 24, 1879, Principal Registry (S6).  Listed as Thomas Hill Crampton late of Bow Church Yard, London and 32 Highbury Grove, Middlesex an esquire with a personal estate of under £140,000 proved by Mary Crampton a widow of 32 Highbury Grove

·       1881 Wife’s Census: Lawrie Park Monteith Lodge, Sydenham, Lewisham (S4).  Listed as Mary Crampton a widow age 65 born in Bristol, Somerset with 1 son Henry single age 26 a warehouseman & shipping merchant born in Highbury, Middlesex and 3 servants.

·       1891 Wife’s Census: 50 Laurie Park Road, Monteith Lodge, Sydenham, Lewisham (S4).  Listed as Mary Crampton a widow age 75 living on own means born in Bristol, Gloucester with 1 son Henry single age 36 born in Islington, Middlesex, 1 visitor and 3 servants.

·       1901Wife’s Census: 6 Laurie Park Rd, Sydenham, Lewisham (S6).  Listed as Mary Crampton a widow age 85 born in Bristol, 1 visitor and 3 servants.

·       1911 Wife’s Census: 66 Lawrie Park, Sydenham, Lewisham (S4).  Listed as Mary Crampton a widow age 95 living on private means born in Bristol, Gloucester and 4 servants.

·       2nd Wife’s Death:  January 3,  1914 Lewisham (S8d), listed as Mary Crampton age 98 the widow of Thomas Hill Crampton a wholesale draper who died of senility syncope at 66 Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, London with Maude A. Crampton a grand-daughter in attendance. January 3, 1914 (S6).

·       2nd Wife’s Burial: not found, however she is listed on her husband’s gravestone. 

·       2nd Wife’s Probate: February 10, 1914 London (S6).  Listed as Mary Crampton of Monteith Lodge, Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, Kent with effects £47,605 to Alfred Crampton and Percy Crampton warehouseman.

·       Children:

1.     Thomas Groucock Crampton (1841-1841).  Born: 3rd QTR 1841 Bath (S=GRO Online Index), listed with no forename Crampton whose mother’s maiden name was Street.  Baptized:  November 9, 1841 Trinity, Bath, Somerset, listed as Thomas Groacock with parents Thomas Hill and Sarah Crampton of 1 Chappel Rows with father’s occupation listed as laceman,  Death: 4th QTR 1841 Bath (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Thomas Groucock Crampton age 0.  Burial: December 8, 1841 Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somerest (S1burial), listed as Thomas Growcock Crampton.

2.     Amy Crampton (1842-1925). Born: 4th QTR 1842 Bath (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Amy Crampton whose mother’s maiden was name Street.  1861 Census: with parents (S4), listed as Ann Crampton age 18 a fundholder born in Bath.  Listed on her father’s gravestone as the eldest daughter of Thomas Hill Crampton who died on April 20, 1925 at age 82.  Death: 2nd QTR 1925 Eastbourne (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Amy Crampton age 82.

3.     Louisa Crampton (1848-??).  Born: 1st QTR 1848 St. James Clerkenwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Louisa Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell. 1851 and 1871 census: with parents (S4).  Married: September 25, 1875 Islington (S8m), listed as Louisa Crampton a spinster who resided at 32 Highbury Grove whose father was Thomas Hill Crampton a warehouseman and William John Smith a bachelor.

4.     Charles Stather Crampton (1849-1874).  Born: 2nd QTR 1849 St. James Clerkenwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Charles Stather Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell, March 2, 1849 (S1c).  Baptized: August 30, 1848 St, Philip, Clerkenwell, listed as Charles Stratter with parents Thomas Hill and Mary Crampton of 40 Helford Square with father’s occupation listed as merchant.  1851 and 1861 Censuses: with parents (S4).  Death: March 1, 1874 Melbourne Australia (S=Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997 available on ancestry.com), listed as Charles Stather Crampton eldest son of Thomas Hill and Mary Crampton of Highbury, London who died at Melbourne, Victoria at age 25.

5.     Alfred Crampton (1850-1922).   See Crampton Generation 2.

6.     Kate Crampton (1852-1852). Born: 1st QTR 1852 St. James Clerkenwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Kate Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell.  Listed on her father’s gravestone as Kate Crampton youngest daughter of Thomas Hill and Mary Crampton who died August 1, 1852 at age 7 months.  Death: 3rd QTR 1852 Barnstable Union (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Kate Crampton age 0.

7.     Walter Crampton (1853-1892).  Born: 1st QTR 1853 The Islington District (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Walter Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell. 1871 Census: with parents (S4).  Marriage: 3rd QTR 1880 Lewisham (S5m), listed as Walter Crompton and Mary Helen Sturt.  1881 Census: with brother Percy Crampton (S4), listed as Walter Crampton age 28 a solicitor born in Highbury, Middlesex with wife Mary H. age 24 born in Clapham, Surrey.  Death: January 25, 1892 Hasting (S6).  Probate: March 4, 1892 London (S6), listed as Walter Crampton of Lycombe Laton Road, Hastings esquire with effects £7,552 resworn July 1892 £8,508 to Alfred Crampton and Perry Crampton warehousemen and Frederick William Biddle solicitor.

8.     Henry Crampton (1854-1891).  Born: 2nd QTR 1854 The Islington District (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Henry Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell. 1861 and 1871 Censuses: with parents (S4).  1881 Census: with mother (S4), listed as Henry age 26 a warehouseman and shipping merchant born in Highbury, Middlesex.  1891 Census: with mother (S4), listed as Henry age 36 living on own means born in Islington, Middlesex.  Death: 2nd QTR 1891 Lewisham, London (S5d), listed as Henry Crampton age 37, May 25, 1891 at Monteith Lodge (S6).  Probate: July 10, 1891 Principal Registry (S6), listed as Henry Crampton late of Monteith Lodge Laurie Park Road, Sydenham, Kent Esquire with personal estate of £21,280 proved by Alfred Crampton of 5 Bow Churchyard, London esquire, Walter Crampton of 21 Compton Avenue, Brighton, Sussex Esquire and Percy Crampton of 5 Bow Churchyard, Esquire the brothers and executors.

9.     Percy Crampton (I856-1921). See Crampton Generation 2.

 

Crampton Generation 2: Alfred Crampton (1850-1933) and Mary Elizabeth Buchanan (c1853-1915)

·       Born: 4th QTR 1850 Clerkenwell (S=GRO Online Index), listed with no forename Crampton whose mother’s maiden name was Bell.  November 2, 1851 (S1c).   (Note:  The birth year on the baptism record appears to be an error as there were no Crampton children born in 1851 with a mother’s maiden name of Bell according to the GRO Online Index and he could not have been baptized before he was born).

·       Baptized:  July 22, 1851 St, Philip, Clerkenwell, listed as Alfred with parents Thomas Hill and Mary Crampton of 40 Holford Square with father’s occupation listed as merchant.

·       1851 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 5 months born in Kentewith, Middlesex.

·       1861 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 10 a scholar born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex.  (Note: the census index incorrectly lists his surname as Rampton).

·       1871 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 20 a laceman born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

·       Marriage: May 12, 1874 St. Mary Hornsey Rise, Islington, Middlesex (S8m).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 23 a bachelor and clerk who resided at 32 Highbury Grove whose father was Thomas Hill Crampton a merchant and Mary Elizabeth Buchanan age 20 a spinster.

·       1881 Census: 29 Carleton Rd, Islington, Finsbury (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 30 a lace manufacturer and warehouseman born in Islington with wife Mary Elizabeth age 27 born in Islington and 3 children: Charles B., Maude A. and Ethel M. and 5 servants.

·       1891 Census: 6 Bayswater Hill, Paddington, London (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 40 a warehouseman & lace manufacturer employer born in Islington with wife Mary E. age 37 born in Islington and 4 children: Chas B., Maude A., Ethel M. and Margaret, 1 visitor and 6 servants.

·       1901 Census: Sfra Hotel, Tunbridge, Wells, Kent (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton married age 50 lace manufacturer employer born in London with wife Mary E. age 47 born in London and 3 children: Charles B., Maude A. and Ethel M.

·       1911 Census: Coburg Court Hotel, Coburg Place, Bayswater, Paddington (S4).  Listed as Alfred Crampton age 60 a married visitor and lace manufacturer employer born in London with Maude Amy Crampton age 35 single living on private means born in London.

·       1911 Wife Census. 10 St. George’s Terrace, Primsrose Hill, Regents Park Road NW, London.  Listed as Mary Elizabeth Crampton married age 57 a boarder living on private means born in Islington living with many other boarders with James Schott Battams age 58 a medical practitioner reviewing resident patients.  Indicated she was married 36 years and had 5 children of which 4 were still living.

·       Wife’s Death: December 10, 1915 Kensington (S8d), listed as Mary Elizabeth Crampton age 62 the wife of Alfred Crampton a warehouseman and merchant who died of iridocyclitis, sapremia and pneumonia at 55 Harrington Gardens, Kensington with A. Crampton the widower of the deceased present at her death.  December 10, 1915 (S6).

·       Wife’s Burial: December 15, 1915 Brompton Cemetery (S1burial).  Listed as Mary Elizabeth Crampton of 55 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington age 62.

·       Wife’s Probate: January 6, 1916 London (S6).  Listed as Mary Elizabeth Crampton of 55 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, Middlesex wife of Alfred Crampton with effects £9,427 to said Alfred Crampton and Bentley James Bridgewater enquires.

·       Death: September 26, 1933 Kensington, London (S8d), listed as Alfred Crampton age 82 a retired chairman wholesale textile warehouse who died of senile decay at 5 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington with daughter Maude A. Crampton in attendance.  September 26, 1933 (S6).

·       Burial: September 29, 1933 Brompton Cemetery (S1burial).  Listed as Alfred Crampton of 5 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington age 82.

·       Probate: November 2, 1933 London (S6), listed as Alfred Crampton of 5 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, Middlesex and of 5 Bow Churchyard, London with effects £132,237 to Hubert Crampton company director.  Also probated again on December 28, 1933 London (S6), with effects £117,269 to Charles Monk Gibbon a retired colonel H M Army and Harold Percy Crampton M.D.

·       Children:

1.     Charles Buchanan Crampton (1875-1937). - See Crampton Generation 3.

2.     Maude Amy Crampton (1876-??).  Born: 1st QTR 1876 Islington (S=GRO Online Index)., listed as Maude Amy Crampton with mother’s maiden name Buchanan.  1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 Censuses: with parents (S4).

3.     Ethel Mary Crampton (1880-??).  Born: 1st QTR 1880 Islington (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Ethel Mary Crampton with mother’s maiden name Buchanan.  1881, 1891 and 1901 Censuses: with parents (S4).

4.     Margaret Crampton (1885-?).  Born: 2nd QTR 1885 Kensington (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Margaret Crampton with mother’s maiden name Buchanan.  1891 Census: with parents (S4).

5.     Unknown

 

Crampton Generation 2: Percy Crampton (1856-1921) and Catherine Florence Sturt (c1855-1940)

·       Born: 2nd QTR 1856 The Islington District (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Percy Crampton with mother’s maiden name Bell, April 22, 1856 (S1c).

·       Baptized: August 2, 1856 Christ Church, Highbury Grove, Islington (S1c).  Listed as Percy with parents Thomas Hill and Mary Crampton of Hendren Park with father’s occupation listed as merchant.

·       1861 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 4 born in Highbury, Middlesex. (Note: the census index incorrectly lists his surname as Rampton).

·       1871 Census: Tottenham Lane, Fairfield, Hornsey, Edmonton (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton a pupil age 14 born in Islington, Middlesex.

·       Marriage: July 26,1877 St. Bartholomew Sydenham, Lewisham (S8m).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 21 a bachelor and merchant who resided in Highbury whose father was Thomas Hill Crampton a merchant and Catherine Florence Sturt age 21 a spinster who resided in Sydenham.

·       Marriage Announcement: The Norwood News newspaper dated August 4, 1877 (S=ancestry.com), listed as Percy Crampton youngest son of Thomas Hill Crampton and Catherine Florence Sturt.

·       1881 Freemason:  Date of Initiation, or joining: Carnarvon Lodge, January 1, 1881 (S=England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 available at ancestry.com).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 25 of 17 Thicker Rd, Sydenham a merchant

·       1881 Census: 427 Thicket Road, Penge, Surrey (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 24 a merchant born in Highbury, Middlesex with wife Catherine F. age 25 born in Clapham, Surrey and 1 brother Walter Crampton age 28 a solicitor born in Highbury, Middlesex, 1 sister-in-law Mary H. Crampton age 24, 3 children: Harold P., Kathleen M. and Dorothy and 4 servants.

·       1891 Census: 34 Fernhurst, Sydenham, Lewisham (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 34 a merchant employer born in Islington, Middlesex with wife Catherine F. age 35 born in Clapham, Surrey and 3 children: Kathleen M., Dorothy and Roy and 1 visitor and 4 servants.

·       1901 Census: 37 West Hill, Sydenham, Lewisham (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 44 a warehouseman lace employer born in Islington, Middlesex with wife Catherine F. age 45 born in Clapham, Surrey and 4 children: Harold P., Kathleen M., Dorothy and Roy and 1 visitor and 4 servants.

·       1911 Census:  65 Eton Avenue, Hampstead (S4).  Listed as Percy Crampton age 54 a merchant soft goods wholesale drapery employer born in London, Middlesex with wife Catherine Florence age 55 born in Clapham, Surrey and 3 children: Kathleen Margaret, Roy, and Hubert.  Indicated they were married 33 years and had 5 children all still living.

·       Death: November 8, 1921 Eastbourne, Sussex (S8d), listed as Percy Crampton age 65 of 41 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead a director of a public company who died of arteria sclerosis at 4 Lansdowne Terrance, Eastbourne with his son H. Crampton in attendance.  November 8, 1921 at 4 Lansdowne Terrace, Eastbourne (S6).

·       Burial: not found.

·       Probate: December 22, 1921 London (S6).  Listed as Percy Crampton of 5 Bow Church Yard, London and of 41 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, Middlesex with effects £80,862 to Catherine Florence Crampton widow, Alfred Crampton merchant, Harold Percy Crampton M. D. and Roy Crampton and Hubert Crampton merchants.

·       Wife’s Death:  November 29, 1940 Hamstead (S8d), listed as Catherine Florence Crampton age 85 of 14 Arkwright Mansions, Hampstead the widow of Percy Crampton a company vice chairman who died of myocardial degeneration at 27 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead with her son H. Crampton in attendance.  November 29, 1940 at 27 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead (S6).

·       Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       Wife’s Probate: February 13, 1941 Llandudno (S6).  Listed as Catherine Florence Crampton of 14 Arkwright Mansions, Finchley Road, Hamstead a widow with effects £9,441 to Hubert Crampton company director.

·       Children:

1.     Harold Percy Crampton (1878-??).  Born: 4th QTR 1878 Croydon (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Harold Percy Crampton with mother’s maiden name Sturt.  1881 and 1901 Censuses: with parents (S4), listed in the 1901 census as Harold P. Crampton age 22 a medical student BA born in Anerley, Surrey.  1911 Census: 7 Frognal, Hampstead (S4), listed as Harold Percy Crampton age 32 married a medical partitioner born in Penge, Kent with wife Muriel Emily age 29 born in Windsor, Bucks and 2 children: Betty Margaret and Nancy Pauline and 3 servants.  Indicates they were married 5 years and had 2 children both still living.

2.     Kathleen Margaret Crampton (1879-??).  Born: 4th QTR 1879 Croydon (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Kathleen Margaret Crampton with mother’s maiden name Sturt.  1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 Censuses: with parents (S4)

3.     Dorothy Crampton (1881-??).  Born: 2nd QTR 1881 Croydon (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Dorothy Crampton with mother’s maiden name Sturt.  1881, 1891 and 1901 Censuses: with parents (S4).

4.     Roy Crampton (1882-1938).  - See Crampton Generation 3.

5.      Hubert Crampton (1883-1953). - See Crampton Generation 3.

 

Crampton Generation 3: Charles Buchanan Crampton (1875-1937)

·       Born: 1st QTR 1875 Islington (S=GRO Online Index).  Listed as Charles Buchanan Crampton with mother’s maiden name Buchanan. 

·       Baptism: not found.

·       1881 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Charles B. Crampton age 6 a scholar born in Islington.  

·       1891 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Chas B. Crampton age 16 a scholar born in Islington.  

·       1901 Censuses: with parents (S4), listed in 1901 as Charles B. Crampton single age 25 a lace manufacturer employer born in London. 

·       1911 Census: Queens Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex (S4), listed as Charles Crampton a visitor age 36 single a warehouseman employer born in London, Middlesex. 

·       1918 London Electoral Register, page 4 (S=London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 available at ancestry.com).  Listed as Charles Buchanan Crampton of 50 Harrington Gdns, S.W.  at the same abode as Alfred Crampton and Percy Crampton.

·       Marriage not found.

·       Death: October 13, 1937 Bromley, Kent (S8d), listed as Charles Buchanan Crampton age 62 a soft goods merchant retired who died of syncope and arteria sclerosis at 16 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley.  October 13, 1937 (S6). 

·       Probate: November 9, 1937 London (S6), listed as Charles Buchanan Crampton of 16 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent with effects £32,487 to Maude Amy Crampton spinster.

·       Children: not found.

 

Crampton Generation 3: Roy Crampton (1882-1938) and Catherine Alice Breen (c1894-1976)  

·       Born: 4th QTR 1882 Croydon (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Roy Crampton with mother’s maiden name Sturt. 

·       Baptism: not found.

·       1891 Census: with parents(S4).   Listed as Roy Crampton age 7 born in Anerley, Surrey.

·       1901 Census: with parents (S4).  Listed as Roy Crampton age 18 a warehouseman’s apprentice born in Anerley, Surrey.

·       1911 Censuses: with parents (S4).  Listed as Roy Crampton age 28 single a warehouseman soft goods wholesale draper worker born in Penge, Kent. 

·       Marriage: April 5, 1923 St. John’s Hamstead, (S8m).  Listed as Roy Crampton age 40 a bachelor and director of Copestake Crampton & Co. who resided at 3 Holly Mount, Hampstead whose father was Percy Crampton deceased late director of Copestake Crampton Co. and Catherine Alice Breen age 29 a spinster whose father was Edward Breen a farmer. 

·       Death: 1st QTR 1939 Hampstead (S8d), listed as Roy R. Crampton age 56 a company director who died December 31, 1938 of carcinoma at 17 Frognal Lane, Hampstead with his brother H. P. Crampton in attendance.  December 31, 1938 at Frognal Lane (S6). 

·       Probate: March 1, 1939 London (S6).  Listed as Roy Crampton of 5 Bow Churchyard, London and 17 Frognal Lane, Hampstead, Middlesex with effects £15,779 resworn £12,463 to Arthur Howe warehouseman, Frederick Arnold Biddle solicitor and Catherine Alice Crampton widow.

·       1939 Register Wife’s: 35 Guaton, Travistock, Devon (S9).  Listed as Catherine A. Crampton a widow born March 18, 1893 living with Edward Breen born January 17, 1854 a retired general farmer with wife Catherina A. Breen who was born February 26, 1860.

·       Wife: Death: November 23, 1976 Torbay, Devon (S8d), listed as Catherine Alice Crampton  of 5 Lydwell Road, Torquay, Devon who was born March 18, 1893 in Bodmin, Cornwall with the maiden name Breen the widow of Roy Crampton a wholesale drapery company director who died of pulmonary infarction at the Torbay Hospital, Torquay with her son Philip Chichele Crampton of Belmont House, Feckenham, Redditch as the informant.  November 23, 1976 (S6).

·       Wife’s Burial not found.

·       Wife’s Probate: January 24, 1977 London (S6).  Listed as Catherine Alice Crampton of 5 Lydell Road, Torquary, Devon with effects £6,151.

·       Children:

1.     Philip Chichele Crampton (??-??).  according to his mother’s death certificate he lived at Belmont House, Feckenham, Redditch.

 

Crampton Generation 3: Hubert Crampton (1883-1953) and Beryl Maud Marion Keeson (c1892-1941). 

·       Born: 4th QTR 1883 Croydon (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Hubert Crampton with mother’s maiden name Sturt. 

·       Baptism: not found.

·       1891 Census: not found.

·       1901 Census: Brighton College, Eastern Road, Cluchester House, Brighton, Kent (S4).  Listed as Hubert Crampton age 17 a pupil born in Penge, Kent.

·       1911 Censuses: with parents (S4).  Listed as Hubert Crampton single age 27 a chartered accountant worker born in Penge, Kent.

·       Marriage: November 29, 1921 St. James, Hampstead, London (S8m).  Listed as Hubert Crampton age 38 a bachelor and director who resided at 41 Maresfield Gardens whose father was Perry Crampton deceased a director and Beryl Maud Marion Culbert Keeson age 29 a spinster. 

·       1939 Register: not found.

·       Wife’s Death: December 3, 1941 Marylebone (S8d), listed as Beryl Maud Marion Crampton age 49 the wife of Hubert Crampton a company chairman textiles who died of pulmonary embolism at 45 Hanover House, Marylebone with the widower of the deceased H. Crampton present at her death.   December 3, 1941 (S6). 

·       Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       Wife’s Probate: March 11, 1942 Llandudno (S6).  Listed as Beryl Maud Marion Crampton of 45 Hanover House, St. Marylebone, London wife of Hubert Crampton with effects £2,169 to said Hubert Crampton company director and Pearl Marguerite Louise Askwith wife of Howard George Askwith.

·       Death: January 11, 1953 Marylebone (S8d), listed as Hubert Crampton age 69 of 45 Hanover House, St. Marylebone a managing director of chartered accountants retired who died of uremia and renal infarction at 22 St. Edmunds Terrance, Marylebone with his daughter M. L. Crampton present at the death.  January 11, 1953 at 22 St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regents Park, London (S6). 

·       Burial: not found.

·       Probate: March 16, 1953 London (S6).  Listed as Hubert Crampton of 45 Hanover House, St. John’s Wood, London and of Maytree Kingsdown near Deal with effects £21,012 to Joseph Cecil Casstles company director and Lawrence Austin Biddle solicitor.

·       Children:

1.     Marian L. Crampton (1931-??).  Born: 1st QTR 1931 Hampstead (S5b).  Listed as Marian L. Crampton with mother’s maiden name Keeson.

 

James Lewis Hughes (1843-1888) and Ann Riddle Hall (c1841-1874) and Thomasina Sarah Carr (c1855-1893)

·       Born: January 8, 1843 (S1c)

·       Baptized: July 16, 1843 St. Ann, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets (S1c).  Listed as James Lewis son of William John and Harriet Hughes of Limehouse with father’s occupation listed as joiner.

·       1851 Census: with parents at 146-2 Catherine St. Anne, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets (S4).  Listed as James L. Hughes age 8 a scholar born in Limehouse, Middlesex with father William J. Hughes age 29 a carpenter joiner born in South Wales and mother Harriett age 35 born in South Wales and 2 brothers: William J. and John G. and 1 lodger a lace worker.

·       1861 Census: 2 Catherine Street, Limehouse, Tower Hamlet (S4).  Listed as James L. Hughes age 18 a junior clerk born in Limehouse, Middlesex with father William J. Hughes age 39 a carpenter and joiner born in Pembrokeshire and mother Harriett age 45 born in South Wales and 6 siblings: William J., John G., Elizabeth H., Edward B., Harriett L. and David A.

·       1st Marriage: March 28, 1864 St. Marylebone, Middlesex (S8m).  Listed as James Lewis Hughes a bachelor and stationer who resided at St. Marylebone whose father was William John Hughes a builder and Ann Riddle Hall a spinster.

·       1871 Census:  213 - 6 Baches Row, Shoreditch, Hackney (S4).  Listed as James Lewis Hughes age 28 with no occupation listed and no birthplace with wife Ann Riddle age 28 with no birth lace listed and 2 children both born in London, Middlesex: William James and Hanna Harriett and 1 lodger.  (Note: the census index incorrectly lists his wife’s middle name as Reddle and the 3 year old son William is listed with the occupation of warehouseman crossed out and the 1 year old daughter Hanna is listed with the occupation of wholesale stationer which probably applies to their father).

·       1st Wife’s Death: May 20, 1874 Shoreditch, London (S8d).  Listed as Ann Riddle Hughes age 33 the wife of William James Hughes a stationer who died of phenomena and phthisis at 6 Baches Row, Hoxton New Town, Shoreditch, Middlesex. (Note: her husband’s name appears to be a clerical error as all of the other information regarding her husband’s occupation and residence matches with that of James Lewis Hughes in the 1871 census).

·       1st Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       1st Wife’s Probate: not found.

·       2nd Marriage:  April 16, 1876 Yarmouth, Norfolk (S8m).  Listed as James Louis Hughes age 33 a widower and traveler who resided in Conge whose father was James Louis Hughes a printer  and Thomasine Sarah Carr age 22 a spinster who resided Conge.  (Note: The father of James Louis Hughes appears to be a marriage recorder’s error as all of the other information matches with the 1871 and 1881 censuses including the children from his first wife.).

·       1880 Directory:  Post Office London City, Clerical & Parochial Directory for 1880, page 145 (S=ancestry.com).  Listed as James Hughes, esq, 5 Bow Churchyard.

·       1881 Census: 262 12 Bachis St., St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Hackney (S4).  Listed as James L. Hughes age 38 a warehouseman born in Limehouse, Middlesex with wife Sarah J. age 27 born in Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk and 3 children: William J., Annie H. and Ada S.

·       1885 Directory: Post Office London City, Clerical & Parochial Directory for 1885, page 151 (S=ancestry.com).  Listed as James Hughes, esq, 5 Bow Churchyard.

·       Death: December 15, 1888 Hackney (S8d).  Listed as James Lewis Hughes age 45 a stationer’s clerk who died of acute pneumonia at 2 Rose Cottage, Lyme Grove, Hackney with T. S. Hughes the widow of the deceased present at his death.

·       Burial: December 19, 1888 Chingford Mount Cemetery, Waltham Forest, Greater London (S1burial).  Listed as James Lewis Hughes age 45.

·       Probate: not found.

·       1891 Wife’s Census: 10 Charlotte St., Yarmouth (S4).  Listed as Thomasine Hughes a widow age 35 a shop assistance worker born in Yarmouth with 2 children: Ada age 10 born in Islington and Gertrude age 3 born in Hackney.

·       2nd Wife’s Second Marriage: July 5, 1891 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (S8m).  Listed as Thomasine Sarah Hughes age 36 a widow whose resided at 10 Howard St. whose father was James Robert Carr a fisherman and Frederick Blake a widower.

·       2nd Wife’s Death: 1st QTR 1893 Yarmouth, Norfolk (S5d).  Listed as Thomasine Sarah Blake age 38.

·       2nd Wife’s Burial: not found.

·       2nd Wife’s Probate: not found.

·       Children:

1.     William James Hughes (1865-??). Born: 3rd QTR 1865 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as William James Hughes Hughes with mother’s maiden name Hall.  1871 Census: with parents (S4), listed as William James age 3 born in London, Middlesex.  1881 Census: with parents (S4), listed as William H. age 15 a machinist book born in London.

2.     Annie Harriett Hughes (1868-??).  Born: 4th QTR 1868 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Annie Harriett Hughes with mother’s maiden name Hall.  1871 Census with parents (S4), listed as Hanna Harriett age 1 born in London, Middlesex.  1881 Census: with parents (S4), listed as Annie H. age 12 born in Shoreditch.

3.     Robert Archibald Hughes (1872-1872).  Born: 2nd QTR 1872 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Robert Archibald Hughes with mother’s maiden name Hall.  Death: 3rd QTR 1872 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Robert Archibald Hughes age 0.  (Note: this was the only person born with his name with this mother’s maiden name in Shoreditch this year).

4.     Alice Maude Elizabeth Hughes (1878-1879).  Born: 4th QTR 1878 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Alice Maude Elizabeth Hughes with mother’s maiden name Carr.  Death: 2nd QTR 1879 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Alice Maude Elizabeth Hughes age 0.  (Note: this is a possible child as she is the only child born in Shoreditch that year with this Hughes surname and mother’s maiden name Carr and is not listed in the 1881 Census which appears to mean she died before 1881).

5.     Ada Thomasine Hughes (1880-??).  Born: 4th QTR 1880 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index), listed as Ada Thomasine Hughes with mother’s maiden name Carr.  1881 Census: with parents (S4), listed as Ada S. age 6 months born in Shoreditch.  1891 Census: with mother (S4), listed as Ada S. Hughes age 10 born in Islington.

6.     Arthur Lewis Hughes (1883-??).  Born: 1st QTR 1883 Shoreditch (S=GRO Online Index),  listed as Arthur Lewis Hughes with mother’s maiden name Carr.  (Note: this is a possible child as he is the only child born in Shoreditch that year with this Hughes surname and mother’s maiden name Carr).  Death: not found.

7.     Gertrude Sarah Carr Hughes (1887-??). Born:  3rd QTR 1887 Hackney (GRO-Online Index), listed as Gertrude Sarah Carr Hughes with mother’s maiden name Carr.  1891 Census: with mother (S4), listed as Gertrude Hughes age 3 born in Hackney.

 

 

Avery Needle Cases with the “Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co.” Name Stamped on Them

1.     Athena Golden: Mechanical Patent #2998, Fig. 14 dated October 14, 1869 registered by William Avery, needle manufacturer, and Albert Fenton, machinist, from Redditch (S=British Library - Business and Intellectual Property Centre, London). 2.     Butterfly: Ornamental Class 1 Metal Design #254656 dated August 4, 1871 registered by William Avery & Son of Redditch (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK). 3.     Butterfly Box - Oval Tub: Ornamental Class 1 Metal Design #261191 dated March 16, 1872 registered by William Avery & Son of Redditch (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK). 4.     Demi-Quad Minerva: Mechanical Patent #2998 dated October 14, 1869 registered by William Avery, needle manufacturer, and Albert Fenton, machinist, from Redditch (S=British Library - Business and Intellectual Property Centre, London). 5.     Horseshoe: Ornamental Class 1 Metal Design #283264 dated June 25, 1874 registered by Buncher & Haseler of Birmingham (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK). 6.     Minerva Lever: Mechanical Patent #3517, Fig 5 & 6 dated November 19, 1868 registered by William Avery, needle manufacturer, and Albert Fenton, machinist, from Redditch (S=British Library - Business and Intellectual Property Centre, London). 7.     Minerva Pincer: Mechanical Patent #1473, Fig. 1 & 2 dated May 21, 1870 registered by William Avery, needle manufacturer from Redditch (S=British Library - Business and Intellectual Property Centre, London). 8.     Pyramid Pin Case: Non-Ornamental Useful Design #5367 dated June 28, 1872 registered by W. & Son of Redditch (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK). 9.     Quadruple - Minerva Lever Casket: Mechanical Patent #3517, Fig.7-10 dated November 19, 1868 registered by William Avery, needle manufacturer, and Albert Fenton, machinist, from Redditch (S=British Library - Business and Intellectual Property Centre, London). 10.  Scallop Shell: Ornamental Class 1 Metal Design #257721 dated November 14, 1871 registered by William Avery & Son of Redditch (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK). 11.  Walnut on Leaf: Ornamental Class 1 Metal Design #272725 dated May 8, 1873 registered by William Avery & Son of Redditch (S=The National Archives, Kew, UK).