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Victorian In Memoriam bookplate written by James Howarth (1811-1891) Sheffield Edge Tool Manufacturer for his great niece Alice (my great aunt) on the burial of her mother in May 1879
The bookplate is from a bible given to Alice by her mum's uncle, James Howarth (1811-1891) on the occasion of her mother's funeral. James was a Sheffield businessman who was listed in a directory of 1857 as; "manufacturer of edge and joiners’ tools, engravers', carvers’, die-sinkers’, silversmiths, print cutters’, screw, plasterers’ moulding, and all kinds of fancy turning tools, etc; also, manufacturer of hard hammered cast steel. Prize medals were awarded by the jurors of the Great Exhibitions, London, 1851; Paris 1855; and by the Society of Arts, London, 1856, to James Howarth, for the superior quality of the articles manufactured by him, Broom Spring Works, Bath street, Sheffield, residence Sharrow Vale."
Alice was second daughter of my great grandfather Charles Mamwell, a cabinet maker, and his first wife, James' niece. Alice worked as a midwife or "maternity nurse" to families around Broomhall and Sharrow before marrying Arthur Ainley at the age of 56, in 1927. She died in 1957 being looked after in her brother Chris (my granddad)'s house in Edna Street Bolton-on-Dearne by her nieces Phyllis (my aunt) and Margaret (my mum).
Victorian In Memoriam bookplate written by James Howarth (1811-1891) Sheffield Edge Tool Manufacturer for his great niece Alice (my great aunt) on the burial of her mother in May 1879
The bookplate is from a bible given to Alice by her mum's uncle, James Howarth (1811-1891) on the occasion of her mother's funeral. James was a Sheffield businessman who was listed in a directory of 1857 as; "manufacturer of edge and joiners’ tools, engravers', carvers’, die-sinkers’, silversmiths, print cutters’, screw, plasterers’ moulding, and all kinds of fancy turning tools, etc; also, manufacturer of hard hammered cast steel. Prize medals were awarded by the jurors of the Great Exhibitions, London, 1851; Paris 1855; and by the Society of Arts, London, 1856, to James Howarth, for the superior quality of the articles manufactured by him, Broom Spring Works, Bath street, Sheffield, residence Sharrow Vale."
Alice was second daughter of my great grandfather Charles Mamwell, a cabinet maker, and his first wife, James' niece. Alice worked as a midwife or "maternity nurse" to families around Broomhall and Sharrow before marrying Arthur Ainley at the age of 56, in 1927. She died in 1957 being looked after in her brother Chris (my granddad)'s house in Edna Street Bolton-on-Dearne by her nieces Phyllis (my aunt) and Margaret (my mum).