ERNST, Gustavus (1815-1859) — Manchester
Draughtsman, lithographer, engraver & printer. Produced, with Isaac Wovenden Petty, Joseph Lock & others, Plan and section of an intended railway, to be called the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway 1844; James Mennie, Ernst & Co.’s illustrated plan of Manchester and Salford 1857, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons (see BME 2011).
He had been resident in Manchester since at least 1839, but as Gustav Ernst, a lithographer from Elberfeld, Rheinland, Prussia, he arrived in London on the Columbine from Rotterdam 9 Jun 1842. He was presumably the Gustav Ernst born 8 Oct 1815 and baptised 27 Oct 1815 at Elberfeld, the son of Carl Ernst and his wife Susana Henrietta Christina Raeder. Traded as ‘Petty, Ernst & Co.’, engravers, printers and lithographers, with Isaac Wovenden Petty, in 1844-1853, until that partnership was dissolved 5 Mar 1853, and as ‘Ernst & Co.’ 1853-1857, with Gustavus Veltman a partner in the latter until September 1853. Joined the masonic Caledonian Lodge in Manchester 18 Jun 1851. He, in association with William Lorberg, a manufacturing chemist, was granted a patent in 1856 for “an improved mode or method of raising or producing designs, patterns, or impressions on the surfaces of plates, blocks, or rollers, and transferring or imparting the same to paper, parchment, woven fabrics, leather, or other similar materials”. He died at Chorlton early in 1859.
11 Booth Street, Manchester (home) — 1839-1851
65 King Street, Manchester — 1844
69 King Street, Manchester — 1852-1853
17 Greenhill Street, Greenheys (home) — 1850-1854
20 Oxford Street, St. Peter’s, Manchester — 1854-1856
18 Victoria Street, Rusholme (home) — 1855
133 Market Street, Manchester — 1857
10 Marlborough Terrace, Carter Street, Chorlton upon Medlock (home) — 1858
BNA. Census 1851. LG. LHD.