hands and welch

[roly]

Hands and Welch are the names of two booksellers, stationers, bookbinders...in partnership in 1861, with premises in Fore Street, Camelford.  George T Hands is aged 44 and Henry Welch 26.

I've traced Welch back to 1844 when a Pigot directory lists him as a tailor; followed by Slater in 1852-3 (tailor) and a Post Office directory for 1856 (tailor).

There are other, later, references to Welch in census returns and a plausible family history and a business career can be assembled.

But I've had no success at all in tracing the presence of George Hands (he does not appear in the 1871 census, for instance, nor afterwards, as far as I can gather).  I haven't, either, found any death notice.

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One other query.  I managed to get onto the Cornwall Online Census Project registers for Camelford - a 'typescript' version; but can't get back to this to see if Hands is living in Camelford.

Can anyone help me find the register again?  And can anyone add details to the Hands and Welch history...?  I'd be very grateful.

roly

[ShaunJ]

George Taylor Hands

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22483/page/814

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bookseller/F0nQAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22george+taylor+hands%22&pg=PA524&printsec=frontcover

[ShaunJ]

George Taylor Hands (65, born Bermondsey) is a lodger in the household of Jemima Gawthorp in Leeds in the 1881 census. He died there in May 1887 and is buried in Beckett Street cemetery. Jemima's son Benjamin is mentioned in the Probate Calendar, uncle and guardian of Maria Ann Pogson and William Benjamin Pogson, minors and contingent residual legatees. 

[ShaunJ]

In the 1851 census George T Hands (32, born Bermondsey) is a Wesleyan Methodist Minister lodging with Jane Boaden or Bouden in Cury, Cornwall.

[roly]

Strewth!  What else can I say...except - many thanks, Shaun.

roly

[Brentor boy]

Shaun has saved me some typing, but one small addition.
The Wesleyan Methodist Association Magazine of 1849 lists George T Hands as a minister based in Helston.

[ShaunJ]

George T Hands was a witness to the marriage of John Hollingworth Pogson and Hannah Maria Gawthorpe in Leeds in 1873

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2253/images/32355_249500-00869?pId=8249336

[roly]

Usual thanks...
I have to say that I did find George Hands lodging as a Minister in 1851...but left this reference alone until I could get some corroboration.

Your additions have been particularly useful - and surprising: always bringing a little joy..  It looks as if The Bookseller could yield more information in my line - which is in studying the lives and workings of nineteenth century broadside ballad printers: an ongoing series printed online that has reached Number 45 (Keys).

roly

[Brentor boy]

Family Search.
Baptism. George Hands. 9 June 1816. St Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey. Parents George  and Hester.