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Family of William Hamlyn and Rose Watkins

Husband: William Hamlyn

  • Name:

  • William Hamlyn

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Hamlyn (c. 1809-1893)

  • Mother:

  • Jane Kemble (c. 1804-1893)

  • Note:

  • HAMLYN William of 2 Tantallon Road Balham Surrey died 2 January 1909; Probate London 13 January to Edward George Hamlyn engineer. Effects £1214 9s. 7d.

  • Birth:

  • 12 Jun 1832

  • Chelsea, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 8 Jul 1832 (age 0)

  • Saint Luke, Chelsea, London

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 8-9)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 18-19)

  • Servant (gardener), 1 Manor Terr, Chelsea

  • Occupation (1):

  • 11 May 1853 (age 20)

  • Fireman, 143 Waterloo Road (son William's baptism)

  • Occupation (2):

  • 12 Jan 1862 (age 29)

  • Sub-Engineer, 27½ Farringdon St (son John's baptism)

  • Occupation (3):

  • 23 Oct 1864 (age 32)

  • Fireman, 76 Wells Street, Marylebone (son Henry's baptism)

  • Occupation (4):

  • 8 Jul 1868 (age 36)

  • Fireman, 38 Lower Kennington Lane (son Arthur's baptism)

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 38-39)

  • Foreman of Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Fire Station, 44 Renfrew Rd, Lambeth

  • Census (4):

  • 1881 (age 48-49)

  • Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Fire Station, 44 Renfrew Rd, Lambeth

  • Census (5):

  • 1891 (age 58-59)

  • Retired Superintendant of Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 16 Ashmore Grove, Stockwell

  • Census (6):

  • 1901 (age 68-69)

  • Supt of Fire Brigade (retired), 16 Ashmore Grove, Lambeth

  • Death:

  • 2 Jan 1909 (age 76)

  • Balham, Surrey

Wife: Rose Watkins

  • Name:

  • Rose Watkins

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1853

  • Tunstall, Staffordshire

  • Census:

  • 1901 (age 47-48)

  • Wife in household

Child 1: Sidney William Hamlyn

  • Name:

  • Sidney William Hamlyn

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Thirza Maud Barnes (1880-1927)

  • Note:

  • Sidney William Hamlyn (1883-1973) applied to the Regent Polytechnic to train as an architect, but was unsuccessful. In 1900 he started work for Faraday & sons, a lighting manufacturer and retailer in London. This was at a time when electrical and gas lighting were competing for dominance in home and industry. One of Sidney's early patents (at least 15 US patents are recorded in his name) was for a remote electrical igniter for gas chandeliers. In 1909 he moved his family up to Mostyn Road, Birmingham, having become chief designer for Best and Lloyd, Lighting and metalwork manufacturer and retailer.

    In 1913 he set up his own business in London, Kerswell, Falulkner and Hamlyn Ltd, which during the First World War manufactured turnbuckles and fastenings for aeroplanes, including the famous Sopwith Camel. The company did not survive the post-war slump and was disbanded in 1919. Sidney then went into business with Louis Last on the agreed basis that the names of the company should be in alphabetical order. Last, according to family legend, changed his name shortly before the incorporation by deed-poll to Dernier, so the company became Dernier and Hamlyn Ltd.

    This concern designed and patented lighting products in the 1920s which included the Litlux bedlamp and the Neolux lighting range. The latter was developed extensively and widely advertised. D & H exhibited at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1920s and 30s. Lighting fittings were sold to retailers such as Heal and Son Ltd, Hyders Ltd, Lyons Ltd, Maple & Co Ltd, and Rashleigh Phipps and Co. Major commissions included the design of the lighting for London Cinemas and theatres, including the Cambridge and Phoenix Theatres, Charing Cross Road. Hotel commissions included the Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly and the Victoria Hotel in Northumberland Avenue. His best contribution, he said, was to the renovation of Inigo Jones's Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. He also designed the lighting for University College Library and the Wellcome Institute in London. Outside London his work extended to the Opera House in Tunbridge Wells. At much of the time, the manufacturing (mainly brass-work) was based in Hanway Place, just off Oxford Street. Lampshades were sewn by out-workers; there was a showroom in Newman Street, near the old Middlesex Hospital. Eventually the firm moved to South London, where it still is, having meantime received a Royal Warrant.

    Sidney William Hamlyn married twice and had two sons, Leslie and Sydney William, and a daughter, Muriel. Both sons worked for some time in the company, as did his second wife, Louise, née Harrison. Sidney died in 1973 of heart failure at home in Highgate. He was cremated at Golders Green cemetery.

    Sources: Guide to the Archive of Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, Elizabeth Lomas (ed.), 2001, and private communication from Adrian Hamlyn.

  • Birth:

  • 24 Jan 1883

  • Pimlico, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 27 Sep 1891 (age 8)

  • St Peter, Fulham, Middlesex

  • Census:

  • 1911 (age 27-28)

  • Designer, 32 Mostyn Road, Handsworth, Birmingham

  • Death fact:

  • 1973 (age 89-90)

  • 1973 Jun Q, Haringey, 5b/2044

  • Death:

  • 1 Jun 1973 (age 90)

  • Haringey

Child 2: Rose Margaret Hamlyn

  • Name:

  • Rose Margaret Hamlyn

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Note:

  • HAMLYN Rose Margaret of 24 Chyngton Road Seaford Sussex died 13 March 1974. Probate London 10 June £17754.

  • Birth:

  • 17 Apr 1886

  • Lambeth, Surrey

  • Birth fact:

  • 1886 (age 0)

  • 1886 Jun Qtr, Lambeth, 1d/399

  • Census (1):

  • 1891 (age 4-5)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1901 (age 14-15)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (3):

  • 1911 (age 24-25)

  • LCC infant school teacher, living with mother & stepfather

  • Death:

  • 13 Mar 1974 (age 87)

  • Lewes, Sussex

Child 3: Elsie Elisabeth Hamlyn

  • Name:

  • Elsie Elisabeth Hamlyn

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Ernest Charles Leaman (1888-1954)

  • Note:

  • LEAMAN Elsie Elisabeth of St. Georges Retreat Ditchling Hassocks West Sussex died 15 February 1978. Probate Brighton 7 April £28644.

  • Birth:

  • 14 Jun 1895

  • Lambeth, Surrey

  • Baptism:

  • 3 Jul 1895 (age 0)

  • St John the Divine, Kennington, Surrey

  • Census:

  • 1911 (age 15-16)

  • Living with mother & stepfather

  • Death:

  • 15 Feb 1978 (age 82)

  • Lewes, Sussex

Note on Husband: William Hamlyn

HAMLYN William of 2 Tantallon Road Balham Surrey died 2 January 1909; Probate London 13 January to Edward George Hamlyn engineer. Effects £1214 9s. 7d.

Note on Child 1: Sidney William Hamlyn

Sidney William Hamlyn (1883-1973) applied to the Regent Polytechnic to train as an architect, but was unsuccessful. In 1900 he started work for Faraday & sons, a lighting manufacturer and retailer in London. This was at a time when electrical and gas lighting were competing for dominance in home and industry. One of Sidney's early patents (at least 15 US patents are recorded in his name) was for a remote electrical igniter for gas chandeliers. In 1909 he moved his family up to Mostyn Road, Birmingham, having become chief designer for Best and Lloyd, Lighting and metalwork manufacturer and retailer.

In 1913 he set up his own business in London, Kerswell, Falulkner and Hamlyn Ltd, which during the First World War manufactured turnbuckles and fastenings for aeroplanes, including the famous Sopwith Camel. The company did not survive the post-war slump and was disbanded in 1919. Sidney then went into business with Louis Last on the agreed basis that the names of the company should be in alphabetical order. Last, according to family legend, changed his name shortly before the incorporation by deed-poll to Dernier, so the company became Dernier and Hamlyn Ltd.

This concern designed and patented lighting products in the 1920s which included the Litlux bedlamp and the Neolux lighting range. The latter was developed extensively and widely advertised. D & H exhibited at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1920s and 30s. Lighting fittings were sold to retailers such as Heal and Son Ltd, Hyders Ltd, Lyons Ltd, Maple & Co Ltd, and Rashleigh Phipps and Co. Major commissions included the design of the lighting for London Cinemas and theatres, including the Cambridge and Phoenix Theatres, Charing Cross Road. Hotel commissions included the Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly and the Victoria Hotel in Northumberland Avenue. His best contribution, he said, was to the renovation of Inigo Jones's Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. He also designed the lighting for University College Library and the Wellcome Institute in London. Outside London his work extended to the Opera House in Tunbridge Wells. At much of the time, the manufacturing (mainly brass-work) was based in Hanway Place, just off Oxford Street. Lampshades were sewn by out-workers; there was a showroom in Newman Street, near the old Middlesex Hospital. Eventually the firm moved to South London, where it still is, having meantime received a Royal Warrant.

Sidney William Hamlyn married twice and had two sons, Leslie and Sydney William, and a daughter, Muriel. Both sons worked for some time in the company, as did his second wife, Louise, née Harrison. Sidney died in 1973 of heart failure at home in Highgate. He was cremated at Golders Green cemetery.

Sources: Guide to the Archive of Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, Elizabeth Lomas (ed.), 2001, and private communication from Adrian Hamlyn.

Note on Child 2: Rose Margaret Hamlyn

HAMLYN Rose Margaret of 24 Chyngton Road Seaford Sussex died 13 March 1974. Probate London 10 June £17754.

Note on Child 3: Elsie Elisabeth Hamlyn

LEAMAN Elsie Elisabeth of St. Georges Retreat Ditchling Hassocks West Sussex died 15 February 1978. Probate Brighton 7 April £28644.