GREENFIELD, Henry (1840-1929) — London
Map & chart engraver.
Born in Clerkenwell 28 Sep 1840 and baptised 18 Oct 1840 at St. Peter Saffron Hill, the son of Richard William Greenfield (1803-1886), a brazier, and his wife Mary Ann Gunn (1802-1874), a dressmaker, who had married in 1825. Married Eliza Ellen Peartree (1839-1913), the daughter of a jeweller, with whom he had eleven children, at St. George Bloomsbury 25 Dec 1860. Routinely recorded as a map or chart engraver on successive census returns from 1861 onwards. In 1881 his eldest son, also Henry Greenfield (1861-1949), was also recorded as a chart engraver, although he became a railway worker in later life. In 1921, now a widower, Greenfield was a patient at Camberwell House Asylum, although still described as a map & chart engraver, aged eighty-one and still employed by Malby & Sons (see John Walter Malby in BME 2011) of 3 Little Gray’s Inn Lane. He died 4 May 1929 and was buried at Camberwell.
26 Baldwyn Street, St. Luke — 1861
Percy Terrace, Plumstead — 1862
11 St. James Buildings, Clerkenwell — 1870-1871
Rochdale Villas, Park Road, Crouch End — 1881
Dovedale, Colney Hatch — 1891
37 Canonbury Square, Islington — 1901
23 Gloucester Road, Holloway — 1911
Camberwell House Asylum, Peckham Road, Camberwell — 1921
Census 1841-1921.