Mitchell

[grannysrock]

Hi Cathey

There are some old English directories you can search at http://www.historicaldirectories.org .  If you enter Mitchell Berry as keywords , you will get some hits .... including one for "Mitchell & Berry " at 21 Bread Street , EC , London in the 1895 directory. They are listed as Warehousemen . At same address in 1899 directory and in 1915  at 32 Old Change, EC.
Included in the  1915 listing is:
 T A "Triplicate, Cent" T N's 808 and 4322 Central  .
I don't actually know what T A means ! T N I guess means telephone numbers. Which is good news - they might show up in the old BT directories on Ancestry as well.

Sally
 

[grannysrock]

Given the 1915 business address, this looks like him in the Times:

Saturday, Oct 24, 1908;
Deaths:
MITCHELL, on the 21st Oct. very suddenly WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL of Frognal Lane, Hampstead and 32, Old Change, EC aged 56? ( difficult to read last digit).
Funeral on Monday , 26th inst at 12:30 at West Hampstead Cemetery NW.   

Sally

[grannysrock]

Just realised you thought he was alive in 1909 - perhaps some effects were sent over ?

Just found on Ancestry under     "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations");
an entry for William Henry Mitchell of Kinnersleigh, Frognal-Lane, Hampstead and 32a dn 32a Old Change.. he died on 21st Oct 1908 at Central Station Hotel Glasgow!  So you could  download his Death Cert from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and check the parents' names  ( provided the informant knew who they were, of course)  ....

Hope it's the right chap.
Sally

[sancti]

The Glasgow Herald reports his death as William H Mitchell (of Mitchell and Berry, London)

[MonicaL]

Sally, I am SO glad you have joined RootsChat  As with your info on the other post (Agnes Robertson info), what you have found out is clever!

Lucky, if that is ever the right word, that William looks to have died in Scotland and, as you say Sally, let's hope that informant to his death knew the names of his parents...

Monica

[MonicaL]

From the London Gazette, confirming again what you have found Sally www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28203/pages/9425

[MonicaL]

With all the leads you have found Sally, I wonder if this is William and wife Louise and possibly sister Margaret in Hampstead in 1901. The visitor in the household looks interesting as although indexed as Haret, I think the original looks like Hurst. There is also the reference to Fermanagh for both William and Margaret:

William H Mitchell 48, British and Foreign....xxxx (lots of big black lines over the next words  ) b. Fermanagh Ireland
Louis Mitchell 31, b. London
Leslie G Mitchell 2m b. London
Mollie E Mitchell Under 1 Month b. London
Margaret Haret 44, widow, b. Fermanagh Ireland
Eliza Whitley 38, staff
Charlotte J Howard 23, staff
Mable Martin 19, staff
Mary E Johncock 30, staff
Fanny E Morley 28, staff

RG13, Piece 120, Folio 126, Page 44.

Monica

[MonicaL]

William Henry Mitchell married Louise Taylor on Jan 12, 1898 at Hampstead Holy Trinity.

William is down as aged 45 and a bachelor, his father also William, shows as deceased. Louisa was 28, her father John.

A complete scrabble of names for witnesses - I think I can see at least 8 names there (never seen so many!). At least one Mitchell name, Edward, showing as a witness.

Childrens' christenings have father William as either a gentleman or a merchant. The later addresses for the family from the christenings show as Kinnersleigh, Frognal-Lane which matches what Sally has found as addresses.

Monica

[grannysrock]

Monica- good find - I read it as Hurst too! and the name of the house appears to be Kinnersley ! Further up the page it says Frognal Lane . So really looks likely now.

There's a marriage on Ancestry dated 12 Jan 18989 of William Henry Mitchell aged 45 , bachelor, profession  "Esquire" , residence Hampstead , father William Mitchell (deceased) , to a Louise Taylor ,28 , Spinster, resident Hampstead, father John Mann Taylor Esquire,. Witnesses include an Edward Mitchell  

Sally