HOLMES, William (1839-1910) — London
Map engraver.
Born in Bloomsbury in 1839, the son of Charles Holmes, a coachman, and his wife Ann Samuel, who had married in 1829. Resident with George Welland (see BME 2011) and family as an apprentice in 1861, he subsequently married Welland’s daughter Elizabeth Welland (1840-1918), with whom he had eleven children, at St. George Bloomsbury 13 Aug 1864. Recorded as a map engraver in 1871, resident with his wife and three small children. In 1881, their son, William Welland Holmes (1865-1952), was now an apprentice map engraver aged fifteen. By 1891, two further sons, Harry Gobert Holmes (1869-1941) and Charles Simpson Holmes (1874-1942), had also become map engravers, while other sons George Percival Holmes (1872-1943) and Albert Harris Holmes (1875-1939) were both instrument-makers. Recorded as a map & chart engraver in 1901, working from home for an employer, resident with his wife and three adult children. His death was registered at St. Pancras in the second quarter of 1910.
7 King Street, High Holborn — 1861
2 Arthur Street, Bloomsbury — 1864
4 Boxworth Grove, Islington — 1871
38 Dale Road, Kentish Town — 1881-1901
Census 1841, 1861-1901.