WILLIAM HENRY (1844-1909) G. UNCLE EMPRESS BREWERY

WILLIAM HENRY FULFORD GREAT UNCLE (1844-1909)

Above: Fulford collection

Courtesy of Graces Industrial History

Parents:

Father: Joseph Fulford 1812-1868 (MINERVA BREWERY and MINERVA VAULTS public house)

Mother: Mary Ann (née Juxon)

Born: 3rd June 1844

Christened: 21 June 1844 St Phillips, Birmingham

Siblings :

1. Alfred Joseph 1833-1846

2. Edward 1834

3. Mary Ann 1836-1892

4. Rose Hannah 1838-1923

5. Emma Jane. 1840-1901

6. Charles. 1841-1841

7. Lucy Ellen. 1843

8. William Henry 1844-1909

9. John James 1845-1846

10. Frances 1847

11. Elizabeth Ann 1848-1888

12. Samuel 1851-1920

Marriage : Anne née Atherton (1839) in 1867 in Manchester

Children :

Joseph Fulford (1870-1915) Christened: 24 September 1871. Occupation: Wine and Spirit Merchant

Married: 1897 to Ada (b.1874 d. 8th July 1915 d. 41 years buried 13th July 1915

Death: Joseph died 26th July 1919 at 49 years

Interment in Stretford cemetery Joseph 30/7/1919

Remarriage: After Anne’s deaths William married Mary née Trow (1848) on 13/1/1872 at St John, Deansgate, Lancashire

Children :

Children with second wife Mary (1848) d. 25th April 1927 Aged 80. Buried 28th April 1927.

Mary (1872),
Annie (1873),
John (1875-1933) Occupation: Brewer
William Henry (1877-1932)
Helen (1880) see photograph
Alfred Edward (1886-1937)

Helen Fulford (1880) Great Aunt

Four generations photograph Great Aunt Rose Hannah née Bellamy, (William Henry’s, elder sister) with daughter Mary Ann Hunt, granddaughter Laura Hunt and holding Great granddaughter, Mona Hunt.

Courtesy of Bellamy Family tree (Ancestry)

Notable events :

HORSESHOE BREWERY

William Henry Fulford in partnership with Robert W. Gill

Bankruptcy:

EMPRESS BREWERY

WIlliam Henry (1877- 1932)

William Henry’s son William Henry (1877-1932) married Annie Kay (b. 1866). They had Harry Fulford (b.12/10/1916) who married Nancy B. Smithies. They divorced and Harry emigrated to Australia @ 1950. Jeremy Smithies reports that his father, Harry wanted to emigrate to Australia but that Nancy (his wife) did not want to leave !

Nancy and Harry had Jeremy Smithies who is still alive in Guernsey. Jeremy changed his name from Fulford to his mother’s name ‘Smithies’ by deed poll in 1968.