William Augustus McKown

[mckha489]

Deleted, false alarm

[mckha489]

I know this man is born too late and in wrong place but… the names and occupation seem awfully coincidental (which of course happens all the time in this game).

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSN3-N51

I cannot find him before 1901 (having trouble loading Irish site)
And I cannot see a likely birth for Mabel
Dorothy might be the Dorothy Florence b Edmonton 1894?  MMN St JOHN

He married again in 1908 and died in 1920.

[mckha489]

27 Feb 1906, Nottingham Journal

Grave Charges in Nottingham - Chemist Discharged

William A. McKOWN a chemist who formerly lived at 162 Robin Hood Chase, Nottingham.......

Mr Barlow said, according to his instructions, Mabel McKown, the fourteen year old girl named in the charge, was not related to the prisoner, but was a daughter of a w Oman, now deceased, with whom he used to live. The child had however lived in his house for some years, knowing him as "father'.

Evidence for the prosecution ... by Dorothy McKown, a girl two years younger than the first

[mckha489]

so that explains not being able to find Mabel's birth.
I think she died 1907

[mckha489]

have found a birth of a William McKown Londonderry 1867. Father a weaver.
no Augustus or Wellesley
Father is informant, a weaver, and marked

Sorry to go off on a tangent.

[howe02]

Don't think William and Dorothy and Mabel are the same family as the dates seem to match - although interesting
1901 Nottingham has William A W McKown widow 36 manufacturing chemist born in Ireland with Mabel 9 born Cheshire and Dorothy F 6 born London

[KGarrad]

Just to keep everyone in the loop, I have contacted Alison via PM, and will be taking photos of the address in Victoria Street (#16).

Unfortunately, Google Street View is 11 years out-of-date!

[KGarrad]

Following notice was posted on Facebook (Manx Nostalgia Group):

1883 NOTICE TO VISITORS.
THE MEDICAL HALL,
VICTORIA STREET,
(One door from Duke-st.)
ALL Prescriptions sent out from this Establishment may be relied upon as dispensed with that scrupulous nicety which characterizes modern first-class Dispensing.
The Seaside Lotion.
Specially prepared for use after sea bathing; will r.-renves freckles, sunburns, &c, from the skin, making it cool, soft, and smooth. Price, 1s. per Bottle.
Blood Purifier.
Etc - . 'reat object of which is to cleanse the system of all morbid matters, enrich the blood and impart strength, tone, and energy to the nervous system. 1s. 6d. per Bottle.
Tic Pills.
FL.r XeuralMa or pains in the face and head often BBBBB VBB for toothaeho. One dose relieves, one box cr.res. Sold in Boxes, Is. each
Bat/iing Caps Js Ea-ch.
Manufacturer of the Celebrated
Mona Bouquet and Manx Fairy
ZPIEI&IrrTTiMIJE!.
W. A. MCKOWN,
(Successor to B. C. Turner),
THE MEDICAL HALL, -VICTORIA-ST.,
DOUGLAS. I"

Have corrected some OCR typo's - I'll try to find the original.

[KGarrad]

More info:

In the 1880s a chemist named William Augustus McKown (b.1857) had a business in ‘The Medical Hall’, Victoria Street, Douglas. By 1 December 1883 he had opened a branch at 4 Windsor Road, Douglas. In 1887 McKown sold the Windsor Road branch to chemist and dentist Albert Edward Woodward (1864-1897). Woodward conducted business until 1891 when he sold it to John James Frowde and moved to a pharmacy on Broadway; in 1891 the Windsor Road chemist business was known as ‘The Galen Pharmacy’. Frowde conducted his chemist business in Windsor Road for over fifty-four years; by 1929 he had moved from 4 to 1 Windsor Road.

Frowde was an amateur photographer, and is well known at the Manx Museum, for his collections of local photographs.