Fig. 14. Photograph of the Griffiths' shop at 26 Lower Goat Lane taken around the turn of the century with, the author believes, John Robert (iii) standing outside.
The various Norwich census returns also provided information on a number of relationships between the Griffiths family and other families with planemaking connections.
In the 1851 census, the list of residents living with Hannah Griffiths included her daughter, Elizabeth Bray, 25 years of age and married. In the next census (1861), Hannah had her grandson, Harry Bray living with her, then aged 7 years. In 1887, Henry Bray (presumably the "Harry" mentioned in the 1861 census) is recorded in the baptismal register as the father of an infant, Edward Charles Bray. His occupation was given as planemaker of 35 Pottergate Street, Norwich. This was Griffiths' manufacturing address at that time.
John Carver moved to Norwich just after John Griffiths. In 1808 his banns were read, in the parish of St. John Sepulchre, for his marriage to a Maria Butterfield. (It is interesting to note that this is the same parish in which John Griffiths lived when he first moved to Norwich.) John and Maria Carver had 4 children. In the registration of the baptism of two of them, (Maria in 1814 and Amelia in 1817) John Carver is described as planemaker. In the 1841 census he is listed with his wife and daughter, Maria as living at Timberhill Street, but by the 1851 census, he was living at Wooden Entry, an area near to Lower Goat Lane, Pottergate Street. He is described at that time as 68 years old, a pauper planemaker, born in Stroud, Gloucester.
It is interesting that on those Carver planes known to me, his stamps have all been incuse. This seems surprising as it is generally held at the incuse stamp was not widely used until after 1820 and it seems likely that Carver was making planes before this date.
William Henry Clarke married Elizabeth Griffiths, the eldest of John Griffiths(i)'s four children. He was witness to John Robert(ii)'s will and in the 1851 census is recorded as living at 6 Pottergate Street. He is described as being 56 years of age, a planemaker, born in Windsor, Berkshire. Also living in the house was Elizabeth Clarke', his wife aged 60 years born in London and Geoffrey Frederick Clarke his son age 18 years, a planemaker, born in Norwich
Fig. 14. Photograph of the Griffiths' shop at 26 Lower Goat Lane taken around the turn of the century with, the author believes, John Robert (iii) standing outside.
Fig. 15. The half-made jack plane rescued from Horace Griffiths' workshop. (Author's collection.)