{"id":4610,"date":"2018-04-07T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2018-04-07T18:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:54:34","slug":"w-c-blades-wheelwright-crowle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"W C Blades, Wheelwright, Crowle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Cordwin\u00a0blades was originally born in 1852 at Spilsby.<\/p>\n<p>The 1861\u00a0census shows\u00a0the 9 year\u00a0old\u00a0William\u00a0living with his family\u00a0at Normanby-by-Spital where his father was Innkeeper of the Cross Keys.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1871\u00a0census, the 19 year-old\u00a0William was apprenticed to William Brown, a wheelwright in Ealand.<\/p>\n<p>In 1873 he married Sarah Kelsey whose family were boot makers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not long after William set up his first business as a Coach Builder on Harvest Lane in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257603362\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/864\/41257603362_4b6a461000_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Independent - Monday 15 March 1875\" width=\"640\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sheffield Independent &#8211; Monday 15 March 1875<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257603252\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/789\/41257603252_0a8828be6d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 01 August 1876\" width=\"640\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sheffield Daily Telegraph &#8211; Tuesday 01 August 1876<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although apprenticed as a Wheelwright and joiner he was also a coachbuilder building drays and carts as he following adverts show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/26428315357\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/887\/26428315357_1ca55d09b9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 01 March 1877\" width=\"746\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sheffield Daily Telegraph &#8211; Thursday 01 March 1877<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257603142\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/821\/41257603142_1bc7ee3ea2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 01 March 1877\" width=\"640\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sheffield Daily Telegraph &#8211; Thursday 01 March 1877<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/26428315237\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/797\/26428315237_b2f2098db4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 22 March 1877\" width=\"639\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sheffield Daily Telegraph &#8211; Thursday 22 March 1877<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After being declared bankrupt in 1877 it appears he returned to Crowle where, by 1879, he had set up in business on the High Street, near Printing Office Lane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257602862\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/797\/41257602862_2abcbbb53a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger - Saturday 30 December 1882\" width=\"735\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger &#8211; 7 October 1882<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257602942\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/789\/41257602942_058d2378cd_n.jpg\" alt=\"Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger - 7 October 1882\" width=\"320\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger &#8211; Saturday 30 December 1882<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/40586755764\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/802\/40586755764_f2791d58c4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stamford Mercury - Friday 14 March 1884\" width=\"797\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stamford Mercury &#8211; Friday 15 June 1888<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/40586755634\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/794\/40586755634_8243ea1940_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stamford Mercury - Friday 15 June 1888\" width=\"769\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stamford Mercury &#8211; Friday 28 June 1889<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257602652\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/814\/41257602652_bc685b2653_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stamford Mercury - Friday 28 June 1889\" width=\"767\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stamford Mercury &#8211; Friday 28 June 1889<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/41257602562\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/793\/41257602562_e9944e240d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stamford Mercury - Friday 10 January 1890\" width=\"760\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stamford Mercury &#8211; Friday 10 January 1890<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite being declared bankrupt again in 1894, coinciding with the death of his first Wife, he appears to have remained in business.<\/p>\n<p>He remarried in 1895, marrying Betsy Kettlewell, who was born in Derrythorpe, though had been working as a dressmaker and living on Cross Street.<\/p>\n<p>In 1898 he sold up and moved to Shadwell in London, where he is described as a Foreman Wheelwright.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/26428315027\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/793\/26428315027_d2a0253ba7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stamford Mercury - Friday 13 May 1898\" width=\"640\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stamford Mercury &#8211; Friday 13 May 1898<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124804883@N07\/26428314987\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/889\/26428314987_d10965c1e9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger - Saturday 20 August 1898\" width=\"589\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Epworth Bells, Crowle and Isle of Axholme Messenger &#8211; Saturday 20 August 1898<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His later years were spent as a wheelwright in Sunninghill in Berkshire, where he died in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Cordwin\u00a0blades was originally born in 1852 at Spilsby. The 1861\u00a0census shows\u00a0the 9 year\u00a0old\u00a0William\u00a0living with his family\u00a0at Normanby-by-Spital where his father was Innkeeper of the Cross Keys. By the 1871\u00a0census, the 19 year-old\u00a0William was apprenticed to William Brown, a wheelwright in Ealand. In 1873 he married Sarah Kelsey whose family were boot makers. Not long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history","category-industries","category-news-clippings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}