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Topic: The Buttery, Christchurch 1861 (Read 235 times)
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Maggott
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Surely the Buttery was part of the catering department of the college? ie your chap worked on the domestic staff at Christ Church. 'College servant' would be the description then & now. (I wonder if Henry Grant was the Bursar at the time?) Could be quite a cushy gaff - I wonder why he went back to Pickfords?
Maggott
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Barry Emmott
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James Anderson Emmott (b 1822) was an accountant. His testimonial from Henry Grant says "Mr J. A. Emmott having been employed by me as Clerk and Collector for upwards of six years. I have very much pleasure in stating that I found him of sober, steady and industrious habits, zealous in his endeavours to promote my interest, punctual in the discharge of his duties, and correct in all his monetary transactions.
The reason of him leaving my service is one over which he had no control. I shall be happy to any questions, and most sincerely hope he may do well."
The testimonial is dated January 5th 1861 and in the 1861 census he is living in Camberwell, London and described as a book-keeper. By the 9th of November, when my gt grandfather was born in Bermondsey, he is described on the Birth Certificate as a Mercantile Clerk and, I believe working for Pickfords again.
His father, who was a mill-owner on the western outskirts of Bradford, had died in 1860 and I know James had to sort out all the businesses.
By early 1862 he was living in Sheerness, Kent and, I believe, working for Pickfords there and in Dover.
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Emmott - Yorkshire, Hampshire and London
Alford - London
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