Richard GOUNDRY 1832 – 1886 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: MAR 1832
Event Place: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 14 MAR 1832
Event Place: the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Quaker Monthly Meeting

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Education
Event Date: BET 1841 AND 1843
Event Place: The Friends' School, Ackworth, Yorkshire (West Riding)
Record Source: his home was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 6 JUN 1841
Event Place: The Friends' School, Ackworth, Yorkshire (West Riding)
Record Source: where he was a Pupil
Age:
9y

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 30 MAR 1851
Event Place: Abercrombie Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Record Source: together with his brother George, living with their uncle William BINGHAM, his wife, and two Servants - the brothers were apprenticed as Grocers to their uncle.
Age:
19y

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 DEC 1865
Record Source: he was initiated into Royal Alfred Lodge, Kew Bridge, nos. 780 & 1802 of the United Grand Lodge of England Freemasons, described as a Gentleman, living at 3 Mincing Lane

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1866
Record Source: he was excluded from the Freemasons for non-payment of his dues

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 17 JUL 1868
Record Source: he was declared bankrupt as a Tea Merchant and Salesman. On 31 July the first Examination into his bankruptcy was held - his address was 20 Bartholemew Road, Kentish Town, lately of 83 Lower Thames Street, 14 Tower Street and 3 Mincing Lane.

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 4 AUG 1868
Record Source: On 4 Aug 1868 he applied for Discharge from Bankruptcy.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 12 NOV 1869
Record Source: a newspaper advertised:- "To be Disposed of, in consequence of the owner having two shops, a first class Grocery Business. Beautifully-fitted shop. Doing a good trade. Price for lease, trade, and fixtures, £220. Horse, cart, and harness, with a good round, included. - Apply to GOUNDRY and Co., Tea Merchants, 3, Mincing-lane, City".

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 SEP 1871
Record Source: a Tea Merchant living at 46, Fenchurch Street in the City of London, he was appointed as a Joint Trustee of the property of a bankrupt Tea Dealer & Grocer.

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1874
Record Source: he was recorded living at addresses in Eagle Lane, Wanstead and Gothic Lodge, Snaresbrook, both in Essex.

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JAN 1874
Record Source: he advertised Consolidated Tea for sale - the process was carried out in China, and consisted of subjecting ordinary tea to great pressure using hydraulic machinery, reducing its bulk to about one third, and converting it into a cake, his address was 13 Cooper's Row, near Mark Lane, London E.C.

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: AUG 1874
Record Source: the patentee of the consolidated tea process was GOUNDRY & Co., of Cooper's Court, Crutched Friars, London.

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: NOV 1874
Record Source: a newspaper advertisement stated "Notice of Removal - Messrs GOUNDRY & Co., Proprietors of the Consolidated Tea Patent, have Removed from 13 Cooper's-row, to more commodious Premises, situated 181 Upper Thames-street, where all letters should be addressed. Many grocers are very jealous of Consolidated tea and will not sell it. To enable the public to become acquainted with its merits, an establishment has been opened at 72 Ludgate-hill, where samples may be obtained".

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 NOV 1874
Record Source: the Evening Journal (Adelaide, South Australia) published an article about the benefits of GOUNDRY & Co.'s compressed tea - similar adverts appeared regularly in many Australian newspapers until December 1881

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 MAY 1875
Record Source: he was one of ten jurors who were each fined £5 for not attending Essex Quarter Sessions. Five of them, including GOUNDRY, turned up later and explained that "their delay was consequent upon the train by which they had come down the line being three-quarters of an hour late. Under these circumstances their fines were remitted" - GOUNDRY was described as a Tea Merchant, of Eagle-lane, West Ham.

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET JUN 1875 AND AUG 1876
Record Source: the company exhibited at Cheetham Hill, Manchester & Aston Horticultural Show, Royal Manchester & Liverpool and North Lancashire Agricultural Show, and Yorkshire Agricultural Show.

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 SEP 1875
Record Source: in the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall, he was allowed a claim to be eligible to vote - it was stated that he had moved from Cooper's Row, where he had the ground floor, which was rated as a counting house, to 181 Upper Thames Street, where he had a house.

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: AUG 1876
Record Source: the firm's main address was 181 Upper Thames Street, with branches at 15 Market Street, Manchester & 28 Bedford Street, Plymouth. They also had a bonded warehouse at Red Lion and Three Cranes Wharf, Upper Thames Street.

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 SEP 1876
Record Source: the firm was granted a Provisional Patent for "improvements in the treatment of coffee to prepare it for the market" - their address was 181, Upper Thames Street.

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1877
Record Source: a Trade Directory listed them as having a branch as Compressed Tea and Coffee Manufacturers at 15A Market Street, Manchester.

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1877
Event Place: Gothic Lodge, Eagle Lane, Snaresbrook, Essex
Record Source: and had a Warehouse at 181 Upper Thames Street. In 1878 he still lived in Gothic Lodge, but had moved his business to a Counting House at 2 Queen Street Place.

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JAN 1877
Record Source: "the overheating of a boiler set fire to the premises of Messrs. GOUNDRY and Co., Wholesale Tea Dealers, Upper Thames Street. A considerable quantity of coffee was spoilt by the fire, but the flames were extinguished before they had gained any very firm hold".

Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 9 APR 1877
Record Source: the company filed a patent application for "A Process for Preparing Coffee".

Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET OCT 1877 AND FEB 1878
Record Source: the company advertised for medical stores and clothing for the Russian Sick and Wounded Fund to be sent to them at 72 Ludgate Hill. In Dec 1877 they advertised for clothing and blankets to be sent to them at 72 Ludgate Hill, for refugees in Montenegro.

Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: FROM JAN 1878
Record Source: the company regularly advertised advising the public to avoid buying "spurious imitations of their Original Patent Consolidated or Compressed Tea, which are sometimes substituted by vendors for the sake of extra profit, regardless of quality" - their address was 181 Upper Thames Street.

Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 MAR 1878
Record Source: the company went into Arranged Liquidation - it had branches at 181, Upper Thames Street, and 72, Ludgate Hill, both in the City of London, 15, Market-street, Manchester, 7, London Road, Liverpool, and 21, Fargate, Sheffield, and was trading as GOUNDRY and Co., Tea and Coffee Merchant.

Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 MAR 1878
Record Source: an advert. in a New Zealand newspaper stated that a shipment of GOUNDRY's Compressed or Consolidated Tea had just arrived and that Sub-agents were wanted all over the Colony.

Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 5 APR 1878
Record Source: a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Richard GOUNDRY, Tea and Coffee Merchant, of Upper Thames Street, Ludgate Hill, and several other places in London, was told that the total liabilities of the debtor amounted to £23,620, and the total assets to £7,879. On behalf of the debtor 7s. in the pound was offered in cash, on condition that the transfer was immediately carried out, as delay would depreciate the value of the business. The meeting resolved to place the estate in liquidation, and appointed a committee of inquiry.

Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 MAY 1878
Record Source: the company advertised that they were still in business at 181 Upper Thames Street.

Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 SEP 1878
Record Source: another advert. asked creditors to make their claims as a Dividend was to be declared.

Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1879
Record Source: a Trade Directory listed a branch at Lord's Chambers, 26 Corporation Street, Manchester - Eardley B. NORTON was their Agent there

Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1880 AND 1884
Record Source: he was in business as GOUNDRY & Co. at 181 White Swan, Upper Thames Street, London EC

Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1882
Record Source: he was in business at 6 Love Lane, Eastchapel, London EC. as a Wholesale Tea Dealer

Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 1885
Event Place: 3 Love Lane, Eastcheap, London E.C.
Record Source: - he was also in business as R. GOUNDRY & Co. Ltd., as Tea Merchants at 181 Upper Thames Street.

Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: AFT AUG 1886
Record Source: the business carried on with new owners. In 1890 R. GOUNDRY was listed as Wholesale Tea Dealers at 14 St. Mary Axe, London, E.C. From 1891-1895 the company was in business at 14 St. Mary Axe, London EC. In June 1894 a Petition for Bankruptcy against THORP Brothers of Bournemouth was made by Frank GARDNER and Thomas GARDNER, trading as R. GOUNDRY and Co., of 16, St. Mary Axe, in the city of London, Wholesale Tea Dealers. In 1895 the company was in business at Basement, 14-20 St. Mary's Chambers, London EC. From 1895 - 1899 they were in business at 1 Southwark Square, London SE. In 1899 the company was in business as R. GOUNDRY & Co., 22 Creechurch Lane, E.C., Tea Merchants and Wholesale Dealers. Between 1910 and 1915 the firm was listed as GOUNDRY & Co., Consolidated Tea Merchants at 16 Lafone Street, Horselydown, London SE. In 1916 the company was in business as R. GOUNDRY & Co., 3 Southwark Street, London SE., Consolidated Tea Merchants

Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 OCT 1972
Record Source: his body was exhumed and re-interred on 5 December 1972 at Nottingham. The M.I. was re-fixed at New Friends Meeting House, Ashgate Road, Chesterfield on 29 November 1972

Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 17 AUG 1886
Event Place: Matlock, Derbyshire
Record Source: Age:
53y

Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: AUG 1886
Event Place: Friends Burial Ground, Saltergate, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Record Source: where there was a headstone