HOMEWOOD, Henry Stephenson (1839-1916) — London
Chart engraver; publican. For maps produced with his father, see Thomas Homewood below. Engraved J. W. Appleton, River Plate 1888, for ‘Norie & Wilson’; J. W. Appleton, South part of the North Sea 1892, for ‘Norie & Wilson’.
Born Sep 19 1839 and baptised 16 Dec 1853 at St. John, Bethnal Green, a son of Thomas Homewood below and his wife Louisa Martha Stephenson (1806-1871), daughter of John Stephenson (see BME 2011), who had married in 1829. Recorded as an engraver in 1861. Married New Zealand born Fanny Emma Mercer (1841-1926), with whom he had six children, at St. John of Jerusalem, South Hackney, 1 Jan 1863. Occasionally noted as an amateur singer. He was employing two men in 1881. Became a freemason, joining the Chigwell Lodge 25 Feb 1888. Recorded variously as a chart engraver or hydrographer, but was also, following in a family tradition, the licensee of the Princess Alice in Forest Gate in 1896 and the Willesden Junction Hotel in 1899-1900. He had retired to the Kent coast by 1900, and then to Cheshire by 1911, where he died 4 Mar 1916. Probate on effects of £304.9s.1d. was granted to his widow 30 Mar 1916. A gravestone survives in the Rake Lane Cemetery, Wallasey.
4 Palestine Place, Bethnal Green — 1861-1863
2 Buckingham Villas, Cemetery Road, West Ham — 1871
Amberley Villas, Downs Road, Clapton — 1874
13 Downs Road, Hackney — 1881-1891
Callis Court Road, Broadstairs — 1900-1901
5 Earlston Road, Liscard, Cheshire — 1911
BNA. Census 1861-1911. LHD.