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IN MEMORY OF
JOSEPH SPIERS
DIED FEB. 7TH 1866, AGED 83 YEARS.
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ELIZABETH SPIERS, WIFE OF THE ABOVE,
DIED JUNE 26TH 1864 AGED 76 YEARS.
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CLARISSA, WIFE OF CHARLES T. DANDO,
DIED MAY 10TH 1871, AGED 61 YEARS
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EDMUND JOHN SPIERS, SON
DIED MAY 11TH 1889 AGED 70 YEARS
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MARIA AMELIA SPIERS GRAND DAUGHTER
DIED AUGUST18TH 1858, AGED 25 YEARS.
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EMILY ISABELLA SPIERS, SISTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED SEPTEMBER 17TH 1853 AGED 27 YEARS
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CLARISSA ANN GOADEY, SISTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED SEPTEMBER 30TH 1872, AGED 42 YEARS
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MARIA SPIERS, WIDOW OF HIS SON JOSEPH
DIED SEPTEMBER 30 1880,AGED 71 YEARS
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EMILY MARY JONES, GRAND DAUGHTER OF THE
ABOVE
DIED SEPTEMBER 17TH 1911 AGED 50 YEARS
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CHARLES JOSEPH DANDO, GRAND-SON
DIED JANUARY 19TH 1869, AGED 26 YEARS
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CLARISSA WIFE OF CHARLES T DANDO DAUGHTER
DIED MAY 10TH 1871, AGED 61 YEARS
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LIZZIE, WIFE OF JOSEPH SPIERS, C.E.
DIED AUGUST 8TH 1912 AGED 81 YEARS
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JOSEPH SPIERS, C.E. HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
DIED MARCH 14TH 1916, AGED 84 YEARS.
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WILLIAM JACKSON
SON-IN-LAW OF JOSEPH SPIERS, C.E.
DIED JANUARY 2ND 1926 AGED 77 YEARS.
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I am grateful to Annie Barnes of http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/
whose researches into her family history gave me some information on the
Dando family in Bristol.
Annie writes:
"I've done a quick lookup on the census records and
have found Charles with Clarissa in 1841 in Portland
Squ. He is decribed there as Hat M.
"Incidentally, his father, Joseph Dando was also living in
Portland Squ at the same time with many of Charles' siblings. They are not
on the same page but two pages after so I imagine he
wasn't working/living with his father.
"However, hat making seems to have been a family wide business for
several generations and in my direct line Joseph,
the younger, then his father,
"Joseph, the elder, his father, John, the younger and his father,
John, the elder were all hatters / hat makers / hat
manufacturers.
"I don't actually have a great deal more information about the
hatmaking business except details of a letter from John Dando the elder (b
abt 1716) which appears in a book entitled 'As Mad
As A Hatter' which was written by a local historian
in Dursley, Glos where John Dando lived. The letter was
written in 1771 to the Countess of Huntingdon and I believe
the original is in the Countess of Huntingdon's
Archive. These ancestors were strong in the Calvinistic
Methodist movement when George Whitefield was starting up Methodism
at the same time as John Wesley. In fact John Dando was responsible
for getting a new Tabernacle (the name for theses Calvinistic Methodists
churches) built in the town. The letter talks about a preacher that the
Countess had sent to Dursley briefly but he also talks a bit of business
so I imagine she had already enquired about some hats. It begins:
THE PRICE OF HATS IN 1771
"'Most Excellent Lady,
"'At the request of dear Mr. Hill I have sent you the prises of Hatts
both Retaile and wholesale a Hat we sell for 6
shillings Retale we sell for 5 wholesale and so on a
half guinea Hat Retale we sell for 9 shillings wholesale,
and sell as few wholesale as what we call a paper which is 3 so may
have 3: 6: 9 or a dosen or Dosens of what sort you please. We dont in
common Button and loop them in the wholesale way, but shall
not stand with you as they are for such purposes.
Shall think it my Duty and Intress to go on the Best
and lowes Terms possable I can...."
CENSUS INFORMATION
"On the 1861 Census Charles and Clarissa are still in Portland Squ
at No 26 with their children, also named Charles and
Clarissa. 46 year old Charles is now described as a
'Retired Hat Manufacturer'. In 1881, he appears on the
"Westbury on Trym Census with a new wife, Ann and again, Charles
is a 'Retired Hat Manufacturer'.
"Some new information. I looked up the Census records and found a
Spiers
"family living at 4 Carlton Villas, St Mary, Paddington in 1851.
The head of the household is 70 year old Joseph Spiers and he is recorded
as a 'Retired Silk
Manufacturer' which would certainly make sense in
linking the family to the Dandos in the hat making
business. Is Clarissa is obviously not mentioned as she was
living in Bristol as she would already have been married.
Joseph's wife is Elizabeth and there is a son whose name looks like
Edmund John Spiers. |
