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Pembrokeshire / Re: Pembrokeshire Photographers 1860-1920
« on: Saturday 20 June 09 19:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi John,

I don't have a photograph of Sidney Webb unfortunately.  You have the correct marriage for Sidney & Ellen Webb,  they married at Marylebone in 1854, and were in Lewis Street, Pembroke Dock by 1858 when their first son Thomas was born, his occupation then was bricklayer journeyman.  The family story is that Sidney Webb came to PD to help build the town and he was certainly a stonemason on his marriage certificate, as was his father Peter Webb.  He was in Commercial Row by January 1861 and still a bricklayer when daughter Rosa Ellen died, but was a licenced victualler by May of 1861 when his daughter Emma was born in Commercial Row.  On the 1861 census he was a licensed victualler at the Pembroke Dock House, Commercial Row.  They were still in Commercial Row in 1864 when son Sidney Elliott Webb died - now a photographer! By the time my great grandmother Ella was born in 1871 they had moved to Dimond Street.  They later lived at the Prince of Wales pub on the corner of Dimond Street and Laws Street and Sidney Webb died at 12 Laws Street in 1918 aged 85 years and still recorded as a photographer.  I suspect he 'kept his hand in' over the years with the bricklaying and building while also working as a photographer and Ellen looked after the pub side of things.  12 Laws Street was still in the family up until my great grandmother Ella died in the 1950s.

Regards
Sandra

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Pembrokeshire Photographers 1860-1920
« on: Tuesday 09 June 09 22:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Sidney Webb was my gg grandfather and I have information about him if you are interested.

He was indeed a stonemason by trade and moved to Pembroke Dock in the 1850s to help build the town.  How he became a photographer I don't know, but he was also a licenced victualler - I think the photography may have been a bit of a sideline for him.  Although in later life he was working again as a bricklayer, his death certificate records him as a photographer. 

Sandra

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