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Title: Walter Gurney hat trade
Post by: carol46 on Wednesday 26 April 17 19:02 BST (UK)

Looking for info on Walter Gurney owned a Luton Hat factory in Bute Street. When he was born and who was his parents and did he have any connection to the Gurney family from Biggleswade.Thanks

Title: Re: Walter Gurney hat trade
Post by: CaroleW on Wednesday 26 April 17 19:09 BST (UK)

Have you looked for a birth/marriage or death for him?  Have you Googled him as there seems to be a large amount of info about the Luton hat trade online

Have you looked for him on any census? There is a possible candidate on the 1911

 

Title: Re: Walter Gurney hat trade
Post by: johnP-bedford on Wednesday 26 April 17 20:09 BST (UK)

What year is this? As per newspaper archives on FindMyPast....
From Luton News 17 June 1954
Wanted... an experienced steamer for wood blocks...
Walter Gurney & Sons Ltd
6 Bute Street, Luton

Title: Re: Walter Gurney hat trade
Post by: bedfordshire boy on Thursday 27 April 17 11:22 BST (UK)

The crystal ball's a bit cloudy this morning.

There are ten Walter Gurney entries in Luton registration district on www.freebmd.org.uk, from 1897 onwards. Some or none of these may be yours, but of course he may have been born elsewhere and moved to Luton.

Without a clue as to which century you're looking for it's impossible to answer your questions. You must know more about him than this.

Title: Re: Walter Gurney hat trade
Post by: tazzie on Thursday 27 April 17 15:32 BST (UK)

Hi.

Best bet is to Google the company. Various site list the director's who I won't name here as current .
 Then family trees on ancestry have lines leading back to a Walter b @1878 in Eaton Bray Bedfordshire. It gives a date of 1937 for his death.

Tazzie