MITCHELL, William Bird George (1792-1863) — London
Globemaker.
Born in Bermondsey 28 Jul 1792 and baptised 26 Aug 1782 at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, the son of William Mitchell, a hatter of Long Lane, and his wife Ann. He married Mary Ann Wood (b.1798?) at Christ Church, Southwark, 14 Apr 1816. Recorded as a globemaker at the baptisms of several children, and specifically as a “globe maker (to trade)” on the 1851 census, resident in Brook’s Row with his wife, working as a laundress, and two sons — William John Mitchell below, then a journeyman globemaker, and George Mitchell above, here recorded as a watch-gilder’s apprentice aged eighteen, but also to become a globemaker. William Bird George Mitchell died in St. Pancras Workhouse 11 Aug 1863 and was buried at Finchley 18 Aug 1863.
New Street Square — 1822
4 Greystoke Place, Holborn — 1826-1833
37 Gray’s Inn Lane — 1836
Pearl Crescent, St. Pancras — 1841
1 Brook’s Row, St. Marylebone — 1851
5 Brook’s Row, St. Marylebone — 1860-1863
Census 1841-1851.