 1856 - 1941 (85 years)
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| Name |
HENRY HERBERT COLDWELL |
| Born |
1856 |
Wakefield  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
1871 Census: Scholar 1881 Census:, 1891 Census:, 1901 Census: wire and wire rope manufacturer (employer) 1939 Census: Manufacture Wire Rope |
| Died |
1941 |
Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire |
| Person ID |
I2280 |
Coldwell |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2017 |
| Father |
THOMAS HENRY COLDWELL, b. 1825, Wakefield , d. 1864, Charleston Race Course Cemetery, Charleston, USA (Age 39 years) |
| Mother |
ELIZABETH HOLT, b. 1829, Horbury, Wakefield , d. 1885, Moseley, Birmingham (Age 56 years) |
| Married |
24 May 1853 |
Horbury, St Peter and St Leonard |
| STAT |
Married |
| Family ID |
F710 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
ANNIE C COOPER, b. 1853, Kings Heath, Worcestershire , d. 1946, Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire (Age 93 years) |
| Married |
14 Aug 1879 |
Balsall Heath, Kings Norton, Warwickshire |
| STAT |
Married |
| Children |
| | 1. EVA ELIZABETH COLDWELL-HORSFALL, b. 1880, Moseley, Birmingham , d. 1954, Boldmere, Warwickshire (Age 74 years) |
| | 2. JAMES HENRY COLDWELL-HORSFALL, b. 1881, Moseley, Birmingham , d. 1948, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire (Age 67 years) |
| | 3. BEATRICE MARY C COLDWELL-HORSFALL, b. 1883, Moseley, Birmingham |
| | 4. ANNIE MABLE COLDWELL-HORSFALL, b. 1885, Moseley, Birmingham |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2016 |
| Family ID |
F802 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Birth Reg: Q3 1856 at Wakefield Union District
1939 Census: DoB 13 Aug 1856 (now COLDWELL-HORSFALL) married at Penns Hall Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield M.B., Warwickshire
- Born 1856 08 13
1877 Renamed Coldwell-Horsfall by deed poll:
Coldwell Horsfall : Coldwell, H. H., of The Firs. Moseley, Worces., gent. Times, d.p., 8 Nov.. 1877.
COLDWELL-HORSFALL Henry H King's N. 6c 490 Cooper Annie Kings Norton 6c 490
Note: Coldwell-Horsfall family estranged from other branches of the Coldwell family due to a quarrel about a debt owed by Thomas (father of Henry Herbert) to his brother Robert.
1861 Census: aged 4 with mother (who was visiting her brother George Holt aged 32, attorney and solicitor at Grove House, Horbury and his German wife Ida aged 42)
1871 Census: aged 14 at Nasely (?) Academy (presume boarder) at Kings Norton, Worcester
1881 Census: H W Coldwell-Horsefall aged 24 born Wakefield, Wire Mass** (Manufact.?) living Church Road, King Norton (with 3 servants)
NOTE name change to Coldwell-Horsfall
1891 Census: Henry H C. Horsfall aged 34, wire manufacturer living Penns Lane, Sutton Coalfield (with 6 servants)
living with them Eva Cooper aged 37 born Kings Heath, relative
1901 Census: Henry H C. Horsfall aged 44, wire and wire rope manufacturer (employer) living Penns Lane, Penns,Sutton Coalfield (with 6 servants)
From The Times 8 November 1877
NOTICE is hereby given that I, Henry Herbert Coldwell Horsfall, lately called or known by the name of HENRY HERBERT COLDWELL, of The Firs, Moseley, in the county of Worcester, Gentleman, have ASSUMED, Taken, and Adopted the SURNAME of HORSFALL in addition to the surname of Coldwell; and that I, the said Henry Herbert Coldwell Horsfall, now do, and at all times hereafter will, in all deeds and writings, and in all dealings and transactions, and for all purposes and on all occasions whatsoever, use the surname of Horsfall as and for my surname, as testified by Deed Poll executed by me and enrolled in the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division). -Dated the 2nd day of November, 1877.
HENRY HERBERT COLDWELL HORSFALL
Witnesses Saml. Balden, Jun. , Solicitor, Birmingham; Thomas Cook, Clerk to Messrs. Whateley, Milward, and Co., Solicitors, Birmingham.
Iron Masters of Penns page 146 - 148.
NOTE on parentage of HH C-H: The funeral of Edward Spawforth in Birmingham took place 9 months before the birth of Henry Herbert Coldwell-Horsfall. John Henry Coldwell-Horsfall claims that HHC's mother was in residence with James Horsfall at Heathfield at the time. John Henry Coldwell-Horsfall believed that Henry Herbert Coldwell was the natural son of James Horsfall. A fact hotly disputed by other members of the family. James Horsfall of Heathfield legally adopted Henry Herbert as his son and heir after marrying his mother, Elizabeth Coldwell in 1870.
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"Walmley Working Men's Club."
In compiling a history of the Social Club it is necessary to go back to the year 1903, the reason being that the present Club is the successor to one formed in that year known as the "Walmley Working Men's Club."
When the Parish Room was erected in 1902, one of the objects for its use was to provide a meeting place for a Club. The foundation Stone of the Parish Room was laid by Mrs H H Coldwell Horsfall, wife of the owner of, and resident at, Penns Hall, on the 15th October 1902. Mr Horsfall provided the site of the Room and contributed to the cost of erection, the remainder of the cost being provided by local residents and from Funds raised by Dances, Whist Drives, Concerts and other Social events.
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A full history of Webster & Horsfall Ltd, The Iron Masters of Penns, 1971, has been written by the present chairman, Colonel JHC Horsfall. The surviving early records of the firm were collected together by Colonel Horsfall in the course of his research and briefly described in the book. The following account of the development of Webster & Horsfall is based on his work.
The firm traces its origins back to the business established by John Webster (1687-1757), wire drawer and iron master of Birmingham. Originally trading as an ironmonger, John Webster I entered into partnership with John Turton to produce bar iron at Perry Barr after Webster’s marriage in 1718. Webster is reputed to have turned to wire production in 1720. The firm has produced wire continuously since this time.
In 1752, John’s son Joseph Webster I (1720-1780) obtained a lease of Penns Mill at Walmley, a few miles north-east of Birmingham, but was apparently already established there several years before. This site, together with the neighbouring forge at Plants Brook, Minworth, was to be the centre of the firm’s production for the next century and Penns was also the home of successive Webster and Horsfall owners. The business continued to prosper under members of the Webster family until the 1850s, the success of the enterprise being assured by Joseph Webster I’s application of crucible cast steel in his wire production. By the Napoleonic wars, the firm increasingly dominated the domestic market for piano wire and in the 1820s, the use of manganese steel for this purpose gave the Websters the edge over German competitors.
The last of the Websters to be engaged in the business was Baron Dickinson Webster (1818-1860), a younger son of Joseph Webster III (1783-1856). Joseph Webster had safeguarded the firm against competition from the new patent piano wire of a rival, James HORSFALL of Birmingham, by arranging for Horsfall to enter into partnership with BD Webster in 1855. During this period of Webster-Horsfall partnership, production at Penns and Plants Brook was abandoned and in 1859 wire production was transferred to Hay Mills on the outskirts of Birmingham. Steel was supplied from a separate plant which had first been leased by Joseph Webster III at Killamarsh, Derbyshire.
When BD Webster died in 1860, the business fell entirely into the hands of James Horsfall. The descendants of his son Henry Herbert Coldwell Horsfall still control the firm today. BD Webster had considerably expanded wire sales and James Horsfall capitalised on this by winning the vital contract for the Atlantic telegraph cable laid in 1866.
In 1895, the firm merged with Latch & Batchelor Ltd, wire rope manufacturers, and control of the combined business was not finally wrested back by the Horsfall family until 1948, when the Batchelor family interests were finally bought out. In 1955, the amalgamation of Webster & Horsfall with Latch & Batchelor ended. Latch & Batchelor now forms a subsidiary and concentrates on the production of wire rope. During this period, JF [Frank] Luckman played an important part in the survival of the company as general manager until his death in 1947, and many of his papers are to be found among its records.
The archive of Webster & Horsfall effectively begins with the private ledger 1801-55 of Joseph Webster III, although this itself preserves earlier production statistics from 1777. The records gathered together by Colonel Horsfall represent a rich business archive for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from which he was able to build up a fairly full picture of the company’s activities, despite losses caused by previous company secretaries. There is a major gap in the correspondence for the period 1870-90 and most personnel records were accidentally destroyed in 1950.
The company’s records are supplemented by the papers of the Horsfall family, which are also kept in the chairman’s office. Few original papers of the Webster family have survived, but an important selection from them were published as Notes ... relating to the Webster family, compiled by PCG Webster and privately printed by his wife Frances, 1880. A copy is available at Birmingham Reference Library, from which the photocopies among the Webster & Horsfall records were taken.
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- Grandfather of James Michael Coldwell Horsefall.
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