jimi43":3ckmpdyp said:
G S Haydon":3ckmpdyp said:
Thanks for checking in chaps. They do indeed seem very popular CC. It's something than none of the previous three Haydon's had. Both My Great Grandfather and Grandfather had tool bags when they needed to be mobile and tools hung on the wall in the workshop. Typical example below. Perhaps handcarts and leather bags will be the next big thing :lol:
I did some generic internet searches but drew a blank on Mr Langmaid, it would be nice to find out a bit more.
What a superb picture mate! That is so wonderful!
Re Mr Langmaid...I'm sure that THE PROF could track him down...he's pretty amazing at that sort of stuff!
Jimi
Jim has now helpfully reminded me of this little challenge, so I have had a go, and bearing in mind that this is all speculation, I have found a family who fit the story rather well.
Graham, I started by assuming that your antique viewing was done in Devon, and with Langmaid being a rare name, searched there. One person jumped out of the records.
Henry Langmaid was born in 1820 in Polruan, Cornwall. His father, William was a journeyman shipwright.
At the age of 20, he shows up in the 1841 census, living in Polruan, where he too is recorded as a
journeyman shipwright. (His 15 year old younger brother William was an apprentice shipwright - there were plenty of ships round there.)
By 1851, the next census shows him living in 7 Nym Street, Stoke Damerel, Devon. Stoke Damerel became part of Devonport, which has since been absorbed into Plymouth. He is still working as a shipwright. He has married but his wife has died, leaving him with a daughter aged 15 and a son, Henry aged 2. His unmarried sister is living with the family as a housekeeper.
In 1852 he gets married again, to a Devonport girl, Rebecca, and the 1862 census shows them still in the same house, now with an extra daughter. Henry's occupation is recorded, even more clearly than before as "Shipwright, HM Dockyard".
If you read along the census records, most of the street seems to have worked at the Dockyard - the neighbours included joiners, shipwrights, a 'superannuated sawyer,' a ropemaker and some seamen.
Henry died in 1878. His son, Henry, did not follow his father's and grandfather's trade - but he shows up in 1881, aged 32, living in Sheffield and working as a schoolmaster. By 1891 he was back in the south west, 'living on his own means' in Liskeard. He was still there in 1901, presumably with his father's chest safe and sound, waiting to show up over a century later!
So, if my wild guesswork is right, and this was Henry's chest, he is likely to have made it early in his career, maybe around 1840. I think it's lasted rather well :lol:
