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ANDREW REED
WATCHMAKER, MINISTER, FOUNDER OF ORPHAN ASYLUMS
1787-1862
Andrew Reed was born at Beaumont House, Butcher Row, St. Clement Danes, London, on 27 Nov. 1787, was fourth son of Andrew Reed, watchmaker & his wife Mary Ann Mullen who before her marriage taught at a school in Little Britain.
A picture and article appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on October 30, 1869 about Andrew Reed- 'The Young
Watchmaker'. These are the words of the Queen of England, stating he was the honoured instrument of doing such a vast amount of good that his name ranks among the first philanthropists of the age-
Fond of books from infancy, his good mother not only trained & taught her little son, but entered with all sympathy into his pursuits, became his companion & friend. Nor was his pious father less tender & constant in cultivating the confidence of his son. The boy was sent to a school in Islington & made great progress in his studies.
His parents decided that he should learn his father's trade, but the boy petitioned to be allowed to study
Hebrew & Greek. The careful mother, fearing that such studies might interfere with his progress in business, had him apprenticed to a master. But the temptation of books was a very harmless one compared with the temptations of another kind that awaited Andrew in his new situation. His master's son was a wild youth & the young apprentice entered on his diary the following: "By the wicked behavior of my master's son I was
made still worse". I went twice or thrice to the accursed play-houses." On this account he got his indentures canceled & returned to the parental roof.
Working the usual hours at watchmaking, in his leisure he kept his mother's books, instructed his sister & taught a little orphan girl, their servant, to read & write thus early beginning his orphan work. Books, books, evermore books, were the choice friends of his leisure hours; & though he worked well at his trade, his good mother in her diary might well write down, "These are things which, if the lad be for business, show too much taste for study." And she was so for right, that God was leading him through secular to sacred pursuits.
Andrew Reed's Hebrew & Greek studies led him to theology & his joy knew no bounds when it was decided in the family counsels that he should go to college. He dismantled his little workshop, sold his tools & laid out the money in books. It is almost needless to say that he was a successful student & that on his leaving college he had many invitations to settle; but he ultimately became a minister of the church in the New Road, East London, where he remained the useful & honored pastor for no less a period than fifty years.
In 1816 he married Elizabeth Holmes, who proved and efficient helpmate in the work of his ministry and in his plans of benevolence. His extraordinary career as a philanthropist is worthy of record. He began his work among the sea-faring population of London.
He befriended the parents established schools for the children & founded the first penny bank for savings. He founded the London Orphan Asylum, the patronage of which became so extensive that in 1825 a large building was erected at Clapton at a cost of £25,000. Afterward he established at Wanstead an Infant Orphan Asylum, the erection of the building costing £40,000 . He founded a third Orphan Asylum at Reedham
& also the Earlswood Asylum (for Mental problems).
Besides these stupendous works of faith and labors of love, Dr. Reed founded a Home for Incurables; & not forgetting the interests of education, while employed in helping the helpless, he was the friend of the Hackney Grammar School, and always the active promoter of Sabbath and day schools for the children
of the industrial classes.
Those who knew Dr. Reed best loved him most. Declining all offers of change, he stayed, as we have recorded, with his beloved people as their pastor fifty years. On November 27, 1861, the anniversary of his birth, and of his ordination as their minister, he resigned his charge.
Amidst all his literary & other labors he did not think of writing his life. One of his sons, perceiving that his venerable father was fast failing, asked him if he had ever arranged any memoir. Dr. Reed replied by writing the following note: "To my saucy boy who said he would write my life & asked for materials.
Andrew Reed-
I was born yesterday; I shall die tomorrow;
And I must not spend today in telling what I have done,
But in doing what I may for HIM, Who has done all for me.
I sprang from the people: I have lived For the people---
The most for the most unhappy; And the people, when they know it,
Will not allow me to die out of loving Remembrance.
What can be added to such a summary? He died, as he had lived, happy in his Master's service, and conscious to the last of His love, February 25, 1862, aged 74. He had given out of his own limited means £4540 pounds in promoting his various plans of benevolence; & he was the means of raising funds to the amount of £1,043,566, 13 Shillings and 1 dime for the helpless and afflicted.
Reference
Harpers Weekly: A Journal of Civilization - Volume 13 - Page 695
A picture and article appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on October 30, 1869 about Andrew Reed- 'The Young
Watchmaker'. These are the words of the Queen of England, stating he was the honoured instrument of doing such a vast amount of good that his name ranks among the first philanthropists of the age-
Fond of books from infancy, his good mother not only trained & taught her little son, but entered with all sympathy into his pursuits, became his companion & friend. Nor was his pious father less tender & constant in cultivating the confidence of his son. The boy was sent to a school in Islington & made great progress in his studies.
His parents decided that he should learn his father's trade, but the boy petitioned to be allowed to study
Hebrew & Greek. The careful mother, fearing that such studies might interfere with his progress in business, had him apprenticed to a master. But the temptation of books was a very harmless one compared with the temptations of another kind that awaited Andrew in his new situation. His master's son was a wild youth & the young apprentice entered on his diary the following: "By the wicked behavior of my master's son I was
made still worse". I went twice or thrice to the accursed play-houses." On this account he got his indentures canceled & returned to the parental roof.
Working the usual hours at watchmaking, in his leisure he kept his mother's books, instructed his sister & taught a little orphan girl, their servant, to read & write thus early beginning his orphan work. Books, books, evermore books, were the choice friends of his leisure hours; & though he worked well at his trade, his good mother in her diary might well write down, "These are things which, if the lad be for business, show too much taste for study." And she was so for right, that God was leading him through secular to sacred pursuits.
Andrew Reed's Hebrew & Greek studies led him to theology & his joy knew no bounds when it was decided in the family counsels that he should go to college. He dismantled his little workshop, sold his tools & laid out the money in books. It is almost needless to say that he was a successful student & that on his leaving college he had many invitations to settle; but he ultimately became a minister of the church in the New Road, East London, where he remained the useful & honored pastor for no less a period than fifty years.
In 1816 he married Elizabeth Holmes, who proved and efficient helpmate in the work of his ministry and in his plans of benevolence. His extraordinary career as a philanthropist is worthy of record. He began his work among the sea-faring population of London.
He befriended the parents established schools for the children & founded the first penny bank for savings. He founded the London Orphan Asylum, the patronage of which became so extensive that in 1825 a large building was erected at Clapton at a cost of £25,000. Afterward he established at Wanstead an Infant Orphan Asylum, the erection of the building costing £40,000 . He founded a third Orphan Asylum at Reedham
& also the Earlswood Asylum (for Mental problems).
Besides these stupendous works of faith and labors of love, Dr. Reed founded a Home for Incurables; & not forgetting the interests of education, while employed in helping the helpless, he was the friend of the Hackney Grammar School, and always the active promoter of Sabbath and day schools for the children
of the industrial classes.
Those who knew Dr. Reed best loved him most. Declining all offers of change, he stayed, as we have recorded, with his beloved people as their pastor fifty years. On November 27, 1861, the anniversary of his birth, and of his ordination as their minister, he resigned his charge.
Amidst all his literary & other labors he did not think of writing his life. One of his sons, perceiving that his venerable father was fast failing, asked him if he had ever arranged any memoir. Dr. Reed replied by writing the following note: "To my saucy boy who said he would write my life & asked for materials.
Andrew Reed-
I was born yesterday; I shall die tomorrow;
And I must not spend today in telling what I have done,
But in doing what I may for HIM, Who has done all for me.
I sprang from the people: I have lived For the people---
The most for the most unhappy; And the people, when they know it,
Will not allow me to die out of loving Remembrance.
What can be added to such a summary? He died, as he had lived, happy in his Master's service, and conscious to the last of His love, February 25, 1862, aged 74. He had given out of his own limited means £4540 pounds in promoting his various plans of benevolence; & he was the means of raising funds to the amount of £1,043,566, 13 Shillings and 1 dime for the helpless and afflicted.
Reference
Harpers Weekly: A Journal of Civilization - Volume 13 - Page 695
1. Reed's School
2. Operation Pied Piper
3. Andrew Reed Debate
4. The Minister
5. Hymn Writer
6. Publications
7. Children's Homes
8. Clocks,Watches, Horology
9. Stamping
10 Watchmakers
2. Operation Pied Piper
3. Andrew Reed Debate
4. The Minister
5. Hymn Writer
6. Publications
7. Children's Homes
8. Clocks,Watches, Horology
9. Stamping
10 Watchmakers
Reed's School
The London Orphan School (Reed's School), Watford, 1921
Britain from above
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw006198
Britain from above
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw006198
London Orphan Asylum Watford
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places |
The London Orphan Asylum (LOA) Became The London Orphan School, then was renamed Reed's School in 1939: HM The Queen remains Patron of the School. The aim of the charity was to provide orphaned children with support, maintenance and an education in order to break the cycle of deprivation and realise their true potential. Today, this charitable ethos still remains at the heart of Reed's School with over 60 pupils a year supported on Foundation bursaries |
Founder’s Prayer (Andrew Reed)
Blessed Saviour, Receive what I have: Strengthen my body and uplift my mind Let my heart be cleansed from any base feeling Let it become the temple of the Holy Ghost, And let me speak and act and think and live Under His inspiration; for thy name’s sake. Amen. |
indeed, over the last two hundred years, thousands of children have had their lives changed From its origins as an orphanage, Reed’s School is now an independent day and boarding school for 11-18 year old boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form, providing an education for 650 pupils.
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In 1813 from his home in St George's Place, The London Orphan Asylum was founded by Andrew Reed. Initially based at a house in Clark[e]'s Terrace, Cannon Street Road. Reed was adept at obtaining patrons (the Duke of Kent attended the inaugural dinner), and larger sites followed. First in Hackney Road for boys and Bethnal Green for girls, then at Clapton. In
1872 (with the cholera epidemic), it was felt that the location was not a benefit to the health of the children, so it was decided to move the asylum to a more favourable locality. |
Reed's School
http://www.reeds.surrey.sch.uk/flipbook/Bice |
Watford was chosen and a site on a hill near the railway station was purchased. The foundation-stone of the new building, was laid by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in 1869. He also founded an Infant Orphan Asylum, later called the Royal Wanstead School in 1827; the Asylum for Fatherless Children, later established in Purley and called Reedham School; and his church established the Tower Hamlets [later East London] Savings Bank, which in 1890 merged with Quekett's Penny Savings Bank as part of the Post Office Savings Bank.
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co |
Fine Art at Reed’s allows pupils to explore the world of drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, mixed media and, where appropriate, installation and digital media
In 1915 the institution was renamed the London Orphan School. In 1922 the school amalgamated with the Royal British Orphan School, Slough, which had been forced to close for financial reasons. Both the funds and pupils of the Slough school were taken over and transferred to Watford.
Official report for the London Orphan Asylum- 1921
http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/outline-of-the-lond |
In 1939 the school was renamed Reed’s School in honour of the founder, then in 1940, during WW2, the school buildings were requisitioned by the Ministry of Works for use as an army hospital and all the pupils were evacuated. The boys were sent to the Seymour Hotel, Totnes, Devon, and the girls to a number of houses near Towcester, Northants. After the war, the government wished to retain the property at Watford, as a headquarters building for the Ministry of Labour.
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New School at Cobham
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In 1945 Dogmersfield Park, a large country house with about 120 acres of grounds, was purchased for the girls’ school. For the boys, an estate of 56 acres with the buildings previously used by Sandroyd School in Sandy Lane, Cobham was purchased. Unfortunately financial difficulties made it impossible to maintain both schools and Dogmersfield Park had to be closed in July 1955, so that all the resources could be concentrated to Cobham where the school is today.
http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes |
The School promotes a genuine appreciation of all types of music through their instrumental program
http://www.reeds.surrey.sch.uk/page/music
http://www.reeds.surrey.sch.uk/page/music
Reed's School Orchestra performs 'Moon River'
4:53 |
Queen's Visit to Reed's School
5:52 |
Operation Pied Piper
Operation Pied Piper
Operation Pied Piper, was the evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two. It was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. In the first four days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers, to places of safety in the countryside. Most were schoolchildren, who had been labelled like pieces of luggage, separated from their parents and accompanied instead by a small army of guardians - 100,000 teachers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo |
Jewish women and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in cattle cars
http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/the-hungarian
http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/the-hungarian
Even though the two outcomes were totally different
these photos are eerily similar & both taken for the same cause, 'WAR'
these photos are eerily similar & both taken for the same cause, 'WAR'
How an 11 year old Jewish boy was saved from the gas chamber twice by his father
https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/tag/holocaust |
Hertfordshire Barge Builders
BAKER, Arthur H., Baldock Street, Ware, Bargebuilder
CHAPLIN, James, Crib Street, Ware, Barge Builder
DORRINGTON, George, South Street, Bishop Stortford, Navigation Carpenter (Barge Builder)
HITCH, James , The Dock, South Rd, Bishop Stortford, Bargebuilder Employing 3 Men
LAMBERT, John, Bourne, Ware, Barge Builder
MARKWELL, William, Wharf Rd, Bishop Stortford, Bargebuilders Labourer
MARTIN, Thomas, River Street, Ware, Barge Builder
MOCKFORD, William, Baldock Street, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
PATEY, John, 7 High Oak Rd, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
PATEY, Joshua, Bourne, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
STALLEY, George, Crane Mead, Amwell End, Great Amwell, Bargebuilders Appren,
WEBB, James, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WEBB, James , Ware Union Workhouse, Musley, Ware, Bargebuilders Lab
WEBB, William, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WHEELER, George, Bonds Field Cottages, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WRIGHT, Charles & Emma, Bartholomew Rd, Bishop Stortford, Barge Builder
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/!-home-frame.htm
BAKER, Arthur H., Baldock Street, Ware, Bargebuilder
CHAPLIN, James, Crib Street, Ware, Barge Builder
DORRINGTON, George, South Street, Bishop Stortford, Navigation Carpenter (Barge Builder)
HITCH, James , The Dock, South Rd, Bishop Stortford, Bargebuilder Employing 3 Men
LAMBERT, John, Bourne, Ware, Barge Builder
MARKWELL, William, Wharf Rd, Bishop Stortford, Bargebuilders Labourer
MARTIN, Thomas, River Street, Ware, Barge Builder
MOCKFORD, William, Baldock Street, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
PATEY, John, 7 High Oak Rd, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
PATEY, Joshua, Bourne, Ware, Journeyman Barge Builder
STALLEY, George, Crane Mead, Amwell End, Great Amwell, Bargebuilders Appren,
WEBB, James, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WEBB, James , Ware Union Workhouse, Musley, Ware, Bargebuilders Lab
WEBB, William, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WHEELER, George, Bonds Field Cottages, Star St, Ware, Barge Builder
WRIGHT, Charles & Emma, Bartholomew Rd, Bishop Stortford, Barge Builder
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/!-home-frame.htm
The Innocents of War
Andrew Reed Debate
Inaugural Andrew Reed City Debate - 6th Feb 2014
7:15 2015 Debate-"Can Sport help break down the barriers between advantage and disadvantage?
http://www.andrewreeddebate.org/debate-2015.php |
The Andrew Reed Debate website The annual Andrew Reed Debate is an initiative that was launched by Reed’s School during its Bicentenary year in 2013/14. It forms one part of Reed’s School’s three strand strategy, which are in basic terms- To host a forum to provide thought leadership in the matter of child deprivation To raise aspirations and improve the performance of young people facing hardship in deprived areas To fundraise for our bursary programme http://www.andrewreeddebate.org/legacy.php |
The Minister
Revival of Religion- by Andrew Reed
https://ia600507.us.archive.org/20/items/revivalofreligio00reed/revivalofreligio00reed.pdf
https://ia600507.us.archive.org/20/items/revivalofreligio00reed/revivalofreligio00reed.pdf
Andrew Reed was Minister at the Independent / Congregational Chapel, Cannon Street Road (Stepney) then Wycliffe Chapel, Philpot Street (Stepney)
The Cannon Street Road Chapel traced its roots to one of the early Independent congregations which met from 1642 at Haydon's Yard, Minories, and then in Smithfield. The chapel in New Road [the original name of part of Cannon Street Road] was built in 1780, with a schoolroom added in 1785 and a Sunday School in 1790. It was long and narrow, allegedly seating up to 800 people though this is unlikely, and lit by brass chandeliers holding candles (which had to be trimmed mid-service). Its minister from 1811 was the noted philanthropist Rev Dr Andrew Reed & in 1830 was among many churches presenting petitions to abolish slavery.
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Wycliffe Chapel, Philpot Street
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In 1831 it moved to larger premises in a new building named Wycliffe Chapel, in Philpot Street, where the congregation grew from 100 to 2,000. The parish church acquired the New [Cannon Street] Road building in 1831 and for the next 25 years or so it was Trinity Episcopal Chapel; its final incarnation before demolition was as a Methodist chapel. Part of the burial ground had become the playground of the girls & infants division of Raine's School which was built on the site, and the remainder Seaward Bros. carter's yard and Hasted & Sons' cooperage.
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The London Metropolitan Archive holds the church's register of baptisms, 1792-1810; roll of membership, 1792-1810; and a letter of 1831 to Reverend R.J. Evans, enquiring about James Easton (1790-1831), with reply. (from the site below)
Dissenters and Nonconformists: Academies ~ Presbyterians, Independents, Congregationalists
http://www.stgite.org.uk/media/dissenters2.html
Dissenters and Nonconformists: Academies ~ Presbyterians, Independents, Congregationalists
http://www.stgite.org.uk/media/dissenters2.html
The 1851 Religious Census The 1851 Religious Census was a unique survey of all identified places of religious worship then in existence, including Nonconformist and Catholic chapels and Jewish synagogues as well as Church of England churches. The Religious census of London 1886 Results of a religious census of London, taken by the proprietors of The British Weekly. Enumeration of the worshippers at two principal churches of London.— 24th of October, 1886 Charles Booth in 1902 commented that the outward movement of the lower middle and tradesman class has left the Non-conformist churches in difficulty, but has not wiped them out, as in Spitalfields, and that this chapel holds an almost cathedral position for the body, and though the building is now 'a world too wide' for its shrunk congregation, its members refuse to make any change in their old-fashioned methods, and are probably right in taking this line. |
The Official Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs Search- birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/#bmd |
Not actual burial ground spoken of
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Burial Ground
The Cannon Street Road Chapel had a large overcrowded burial ground behind it, which was not owned by the Church, where many Irish & also Lascar burials were very roughly performed. Report from- Gatherings from Graveyards
G. A. Walker London Surgeon 1839 https://archive.org/stream/b21902963#page/172/mode/2up/ The burying ground at the back of this (the Cannon Street Road) chapel is large, and very much crowded. The fees are low; many of the Irish are buried here, and bodies are brought from very distant parishes; many of the grave stones have given way. There is a schoolroom for children at one end of the ground, built over a shed, in which are deposited pieces of broken-up coffin wood, tools, &c. |
The London Morning Post of 6 October 1846 reported:
THAMES — Private Burial Grounds —Yesterday, Mr Rayner, Chairman of the Board of Guardians of St. George-in-the-East, accompanied by Mr. George Findlay and Mr. Staples, also guardians, waited on Mr. Ballantine [the stipendiary magistrate of Thames Olice Court], for the purpose of calling his attention to the over-crowded state of a burial ground in Cannon-street-road, in the rear of Trinity Episcopal Chapel, with which edifice, however, the cemetery has no connection.
THAMES — Private Burial Grounds —Yesterday, Mr Rayner, Chairman of the Board of Guardians of St. George-in-the-East, accompanied by Mr. George Findlay and Mr. Staples, also guardians, waited on Mr. Ballantine [the stipendiary magistrate of Thames Olice Court], for the purpose of calling his attention to the over-crowded state of a burial ground in Cannon-street-road, in the rear of Trinity Episcopal Chapel, with which edifice, however, the cemetery has no connection.
Mr. Findlay said he was constable of the parish, and he was requested, in his official capacity, to bring the disgraceful practices carried on in the burial ground before the notice of the magistrate. The burial ground, which was of small extent, was over-crowded with human remains. For some time past a most disgusting and reprehensible practice had been adopted. The coffins and bodies had been taken out of the graves, which ought not to have been disturbed, and after the coffins were broken up, large holes were prepared, into which human remains were thrown in a heap. Pieces of coffins were often seen about the ground, with pieces of decomposed flesh and hair adhering to them. The parishioners were most anxious to prevent any more interments in the burial ground to abate the nuisance
http://www.stgite.org.uk/trinitychapel.html#trinityburial |
Not actual burial ground spoken of
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A Lascar was a sailor or militiaman from South Asia, India, the Arab world, and other territories situated to the east of the Cape of Good Hope, who were employed on European ships from the 16th century until the middle of the 20th century
The London Burial Grounds (the site)
http://www.burial.magic-nation.co.uk/bgpage1.htm (The Book)- The London Burial Grounds:
Notes on Their History....by Mrs. Basil Holmes 1896 Cannon Street Road Congregational Church yard page 298 https://archive.org/stream/londonburialgro00holmgoog#page/n8/mod London's Long Lost Burial Grounds
http://www.derelictlondon.com/long-lost-burial |
Yet another abused graveyard nearby
Page 85-86 The London Burial Grounds: by Mrs. Basil Holmes
Cholera: A Worldwide History By S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler
OBITUARY- Andrew Reed
The Sydney Morning Herald 16 May 1862
Find a Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bi British Isle Genealogy http://www.bigenealogy.com/inde ABNEY PARK CEMETERY search http://freepages.genealogy.roots |
Hymn Writer
Dr. Andrew Reed was also an English Congregational hymn writer. He compiled a hymn-book in 1841 & also published some of his sermons & books of devotion.
http://www.hymnary.org/person/Reed_Andrew Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is credited with writing approx. 750 Hymns
In 1834, on a visit to America, he received from Yale College the degree of D.D. He published a Supplement to Isaac Watts' Hymn Book in 1817, a revised and enlarged edition of which appeared in 1841, containing twenty-seven hymns by himself and nineteen by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
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Publications
THE YOUNG WATCHMAKER ENGRAVING
http://www.printsold andrare.com/clocks/ |
HARPER'S WEEKLY
http://harpers.org/archive/ Rare & Early Newspapers http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/173352 Cambridge Books Online
Memoirs of the Life and Philanthropic Labours of Andrew Reed, D.D. https://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9 |
Martha: A Memorial of an Only and Beloved Sister, Volume 1 By Andrew Reed, Martha Reed 1823
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jx4IAAAAQ Martha: A Memorial of an Only and Beloved Sister, Volume 2 By Andrew Reed, Martha Reed 1823
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2x4IAAAAQA Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools : by Paul, James Laughery 1876
Giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orphan system, and legislative enactments relating thereto; with brief sketches and engravings of the several institutions, with names of pupils. https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniassol00paulu Historical sketch of the Montreal Protestant Orphan Asylum : 1860
with an appendix containing a list of the office bearers, contributors to the building, land etc. https://archive.org/stream/cihm_47121#page/n5/mod Fiftieth anniversary of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio, 1868-1918 by Wolfenstein. S
https://archive.org/stream/fiftiethannivers00wolf#pa Report- Leake and Watts Orphan House N.Y. 1918
https://archive.org/stream/reportofleakewat00leak#p |
No Fiction: A Narrative, Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts, Volume 1 By Andrew Reed 1820
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=T0cUAAAAY A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches: by the deputation from the Congregational Union of England and Wales by Andrew Reed, James Matheson 1835
https://archive.org/stream/anarrativevisit04mathgoo The Orphans' Home and Female Aid Society, Toronto: 1851
https://archive.org/stream/cihm_49181#page/n3/mod Annual report of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society 1910
https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofpa00paci# Golden jubilee of St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum :
Montreal the work of Fathers Dowd, O'Brien and Quinlivan with biographies and illustrations by Curran, John Joseph, 1842-1909 https://archive.org/stream/goldenjubileeofs00curruo Manual of the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn 1865
https://archive.org/stream/manualoforphanas00orph |
Children's Homes
Children's homes Records
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/research/ Infant Orphan Asylum (later Royal Wanstead)
The Snaresbrook court building was originally built for the Infant Orphans’ Asylum in 1841. The Asylum changed its name to the Royal Wanstead School in 1938 & was closed completely in 1971. After extensive alterations, Crown Court moved in soon after. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/search London Orphan Asylum
Surrey History Centre
Holdings include: Admission and leaving registers (1893-1969) Annual reports (1815-1971), Girls' school magazine a (1910-29) Rule books (1883, 1909) & an assortment of other material. http://www.surreyarchives.org.uk/Calmview/ |
Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905) was an Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children. From the time of his first home in 1870 until his death in 1905, Dr Barnardo helped nearly 100,000 children.
http://www.barnardos.com/dotcom_history.htm DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES
http://guides.naa.gov.au/good-british-stock/chapter Barnardo’s Family History Service If your deceased relative was a Barnardo’s boy or girl, in the UK or as part of migration to Australia or Canada, we could help you trace information about them and their life in Barnardo’s. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/who_we 1881 Cen: Residents Infant Orphan Asylum, Essex
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/WansteadInfant/ 1881 Cen: Residents London Orphan Asylum, Watford http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LondonOrphan/ 1881 Census: Residents of Asylum for Fatherless Children, Coulsdon, Surrey http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/PurleyReedham |
Some of Dr. Barnado's Kids
BRIDEWELL PALACE
The organised provision of residential care for children who were orphaned, abandoned, impoverished, abused, or otherwise in need of shelter and protection, goes back to at least the sixteenth century. One early establishment was Henry VIII's Bridewell Palace, given to the City of London in 1553 by his successor, Edward VI, for use as an orphanage and also as a place of correction for the 'disorderly poor'. http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20 London Metropolitan Archives
Reedham Orphanage correspondence and papers (1888-1941) http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/ |
The Passroom at Bridewell (1808)
by Thomas Rowlandson Male & Female had their separate workrooms and a night-room. They slept in boxes, with a little straw, on the floor . . . . no other prison in London has any straw or bedding . . . . There were, very properly, solitary cells for the Bridewell boys, in which one was confined and employed in beating hemp. http://www.londonlives.org/static/Bridewell.jsp The Lost Hospitals of London (youtube)
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Clocks,Watches,
Horology
Horology
Clocks and Horology
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Water clocks were among the earliest time keepers that didn't depend on the observation of celestial bodies. Cylindrical or bowl-shaped containers designed to slowly fill with water coming in at a constant rate. Markings on the inside surfaces measured the passage of “hours” as the water level reached them.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0855491.html Horology
http://www.retail-jeweller.com/a-history-not-to-be Cambridge Digital Library- Horology http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?facet-date=1800s Horological museums http://www.clocksmagazine.com/link-pages/clock Museums and Exhibitions
http://www.nawcc-index.net/Museums.php Early clocks http://www.earlyclocks.com/ Around -1450 was the first sundial, this is a portable sundial, Pierre LeMaire, Paris, early 18th c.
History of Watchmaking https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/ encyclopaedia |
Old Watch Shops From The Past
http://www.horologist.com/gallery_11.htm The Watchmaker's and Jeweler's Hand-Book:
https://archive.org/stream/watchmakersjewel00hop It appears that the art of Clock and Watch making evolved from the skills of the Metal Workers or Hammermen/Hammersmiths who were part of the system of Medieval Guilds (Gilds).
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=32335 Clockmaker
As the art of making clocks became more widespread and distinguished, guilds specifically for this trade emerged around the sixteenth century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockmaker "The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician" Journal 1877
https://archive.org/stream/watchmakerjewel341877 London's Unusual Clocks Explained
http://londonist.com/2014/08/londons-unusual-clocks TOOLS OF THE WATCHMAKER
http://www.petermcbride.com/watchtools/ BIG BEN
In October, 1834 the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire. Following the destruction of the buildings, a competition was launched for design suitable for the new Palace. Charles Barry's design won. Charles Barry's design incorporated a clock tower. The dials were to be thirty feet in diameter, the quarter chimes were to be struck on eight bells, and the hours were to be struck on a 14 ton bell. http://www.bigben.freeservers.com/history.html History of The Alarm Clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock Dating Antique Clocks By The Makers' Names
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London: vol. 3 edited by Charles Knight 1842
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XO04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=stamping+watches+a
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XO04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=stamping+watches+a
Stamping
Goldsmiths' Hall, positioned at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street, north east of St. Paul's Cathedral, the magnificent Hall, opened in 1835, is one of London's hidden treasures. It is the third hall to be built on that site.
CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKING
The obligation of stamping all gold and silver cases at Goldsmiths' Hall affords some statistics of the number of watches produced in England, but not of the hands employed in their manufacture. A contributor to Knight's London, writing in 1842, estimates the average annual number of watches which passed through Goldsmiths' Hall at 14,000 gold and 85,000 silver. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ report.aspx? |
Goldsmiths' Hall
The Goldsmiths' Company being located on the same site since 1339. Little is known of the first Hall but the second was erected in 1634-6 and restored after the Great Fire of 1666. It lasted for almost two centuries, but was eventually demolished in the late 1820s. The present Hall, by Philip Hardwick, remains much as he designed it, although there have been changes to the decorative schemes and the use of rooms. http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/company/goldsmith ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS (JULY 1830)
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THE GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS CO LTD
MARKS - HALLMARKS - HISTORY SILVER PLATE MARKS ANCIENT ADVERTISEMENTS BRITISH SILVER MAKERS & Silversmiths: MARKS, HISTORY AND INFORMATION http://www.silvercollection.it/ |
Stamping- Sponsor's Marks
Before sending an item to be assayed and hallmarked at a British assay office a person must first register their details with the assay office they want to use. This person is called the "sponsor", which in this context means the person who takes responsibility for the items submitted. The sponsor does not need to be someone directly involved in making the items that they submit for hallmarking. The details registered must include an address in Britain and at least one punch mark. The punch is used to mark items that are submitted to the assay office with the sponsor's mark so that the items they submit can be easily identified. |
The punch mark must be unique, and usually consists of a person or company's initials set within a shaped "shield". If the initials are the same as someone already registered, the shield shape will be made different so that the two marks can be distinguished.
The requirement for this mark was introduced in the year 1363 to identify the master goldsmith who would be punished if an item was found to be of substandard quality. It was never intended to identify who actually made an item. In strict terms it was a responsibility mark, but it was not given a name in the 1363 Act and understandably but unfortunately became referred to as the "maker's mark".
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The requirement for this mark was introduced in the year 1363 to identify the master goldsmith who would be punished if an item was found to be of substandard quality. It was never intended to identify who actually made an item. In strict terms it was a responsibility mark, but it was not given a name in the 1363 Act and understandably but unfortunately became referred to as the "maker's mark".
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Watchmakers
The Clerks of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
1631 Thomas Copley, appointed by the Charter for life. 1636 Thomas Shelton 1651/2 Thomas Morgan 1659 Thomas Holland 1662 Thomas Goodwin (Not recorded) Francis Speidell 1719 Benjamin Graves 1731 James Drury 1740 John Stafford 1740 John Lockyer 1760 Jasper Taylor 1770 Thomas Hughes 1785 Francis Atkins 1809 George Atkins 1842 Samuel Elliott Atkins 1879 Henry Charles Overall 1918 William John Somerset Pennefather 1946 William John Somerset Pennefather & Roland Cranstoun Pennefather 1955 Roland Cranstoun Pennefather 1980 Brian George Frow 1991 Peter Hurst Gibson 2005 Joseph William Henry Buxton 2013 Lt Col Oliver Patrick Bartrum MBE http://www.clockmakers.org/the-clockmakers-muse |
The Clerks of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
1631 Thomas Copley, appointed by the Charter for life. 1636 Thomas Shelton 1651/2 Thomas Morgan 1659 Thomas Holland 1662 Thomas Goodwin (Not recorded) Francis Speidell 1719 Benjamin Graves 1731 James Drury 1740 John Stafford 1740 John Lockyer 1760 Jasper Taylor 1770 Thomas Hughes 1785 Francis Atkins 1809 George Atkins 1842 Samuel Elliott Atkins 1879 Henry Charles Overall 1918 William John Somerset Pennefather 1946 William John Somerset Pennefather & Roland Cranstoun Pennefather 1955 Roland Cranstoun Pennefather 1980 Brian George Frow 1991 Peter Hurst Gibson 2005 Joseph William Henry Buxton 2013 Lt Col Oliver Patrick Bartrum MBE http://www.clockmakers.org/about/the-court-commit |
DOUGLAS- CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS- Vic., Aust. & Scotland
http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Businesses/ Chronological List of Famous Watchmakers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_list_of Index of British & Irish Watch & Clock Makers listed
http://www.clockswatches.com/showindex.php?em Clockmakers’ Company Masters & their Apprentices. Transcribed from Atkins’ list 1600's-1800's
http://www.clockmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/ Clock and Watch Makers- Alphabetical http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com Clock and Watch Makers- List http://blacksmiths.mygenwebs.com/clockmakers The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers The Masters
from 1631 http://www.clockmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/ Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate NSW 4 November 1933
James Cox (ca. 17231800): Goldsmith and Entrepreneur
James Cox proclaimed himself a goldsmith who “Makes Great Variety of Curious Wares in Gold, Silver and other METALS. Also, Amber, Pearl, Tortoiseshell and Curious Stones.” Yet Cox seems to have spent most of his career as an entrepreneur, and in the early 1770's he claimed to employ between 800 and 1,000 workmen. http://www.metmuseum.org/ How a Watch Works - 1949 Educational Video
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The Shoalhaven Telegraph NSW 4 July 1917
The Catholic Press Sydney, NSW 12 October 1911
Louis Moinet: 1768-1800
Louis Moinet was one of the greatest watchmakers of all time – his inventiveness, passion and willingness to pass on his wisdom mean his contribution to horology is immeasurable. http://www.louismoinet.com/louismoinet-timelin Listen to-
Wall and Mantel Clock Chime and Strike Sounds https://billsclockworks.com/merchandise/chimes/ |
Watchmaking Part 1
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Masters of Time: The World of Swiss Watches
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