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Research and article by Richard Hall, 2017
Henry Monkman Hames
Rushden Echo, 11th March 1898
Quinine Wine removes all the ill effects of Influenza.
10½d per bottle (full strength). HAMES, Chymist, Rushden.
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Wallis Wilkerson appears to have been succeeded by Harry Monkman Hames in the shop at 9 High Street. The only references I can find to his being a chemist in Rushden is his name appearing in the Electoral Register for 1899 and a small advertisement in the Echo on 11th March 1898, in which he is described as a Chymist! What is known that he was born in Boston, Lincs in 1870, he married Emma Jane Dant in Thrapston in 1894, his daughter Dorothy was born in Thrapston in 1896 so he came to Rushden in or after 1896.
He was declared bankrupt in 1899.
By 1901 the census tells us that he had moved away back to his home town of Boston where he was working as the manager of a Chemist and Druggist and was still there in the 1911 census.
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Rushden Argus, November 1897
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Rushden Argus, 10th December 1897
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Matthew Griffiths
He was followed at the shop in Rushden by Matthew Griffiths who is shown as living there in the 1901 census with his son Gordon and sister in law, Edith Mansfield. The 1901 census shows the house numbers for the first time and Matthew is shown as living at No.9 High St. whilst No.11 is occupied by Elizabeth Robinson, grocer and her children.
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Rushden Echo, 23 March 1900
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| Rushden Echo, June 1901 |
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Matthew was born at Weston super Mare and in 1881 is shown as living at Downham Market. He is living with the widow of a chemist and her son, Augustus Baker, who evidently owned his father’s business and Matthew was his assistant.
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