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LizzieW
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Hi
Is there anyone who knows or has heard of in the past, a company called G L Harrison in Hull?
When my grandad joined the army in 1901 age 15, his attestation papers show that he was an apprentice at G L Harrison in Hull, but his indentures were cancelled. Whether this was because he wanted to join the army, or because he wasn't considered suitable I have no idea.
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Liz
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Ecneps
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Bulmers Directory 1892 has
Harrison George L., bellhanger and whitesmith, 67 Spencer street; h 14 Portland place
maybe that was it??
Barbara
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Census and bmd information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and www.scotlandspeople.gov.ukNorfolk - Ebbs Whiterod Zipfell Lincs & Yorks - Sivills Predgen Sweden - Jönsson Cronberg Andersson Yorks - Spence Hide Hird Durham - Dalkin Selby Renwick Somerset - Keen Hitchins |
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LizzieW
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Barbara
Thanks for that.
It is all a bit odd, as my grandfather was supposed to have joined the army when orphaned (he did that is true) and learned to play the oboe whilst in the army, however, on his attestation papers age 15yrs 5 months, he states his trade or calling as a musician, but also that he was an apprentice at G L Harrison for 7 months and the indentures were cancelled. As another rootschatter pointed out to me some time ago, an oboe is a very expensive instrument and she correctly guessed that he would have played the trumpet or something similar to start with.
Liz
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Ecneps
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Hi Liz,
Someone from Hull may know better, there were quite a few G.Harrisons listed in Bulmers 1892 but only 1 G.L. But if you want to wade through the directories at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp
you might find 1900s there
Maybe he really just wanted to be a musician and not a tradesman, or perhaps the firm just couldn't keep his apprenticeship open for him when he joined up, I don't know what the law about that was then - but how sad that he probably just joined up to have a roof over his head, and only 15 too
Barbara
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LizzieW
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The roof over his head was probably one reason. His youngest brother age 8 went into an orphanage a few months later, when the eldest aged 21 also joined up. There were also 3 sisters, age 19, 17 and 11 at the time. Where they lived I don't know, I do know the 11 year old died 2 years later and the other 2 got married. The eldest was married by the time the young one died in the workhouse hospital, but there are no records of the young one being in an orphanage or workhouse before her death. All in all a very sad time for the 3 youngest children.
I do have a contact in Hull who I will contact when she returns from holiday at the end of the month. If she hasn't heard of Harrisons, I expect her father will have done.
Liz
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Bee
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Wm & Sarah Ellis - 1916
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Hi Liz,
the same firm that Barbara mentioned also appears in the 1905 Kelly's directory for Hull, but not in the 1933 Kelly's.
Bee
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Dinsdale, Ellis, Gee, Goldsmith,Green,Hawks,Holmes, Lacey, Longhorn, Pickersgill, Quantrill,Tuthill, Tuttle & Walker, in E & W Yorks, Lincs, Norfolk & Suffolk. Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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