| Level | Fonds |
| Finding Number (Click this to use the hierarchy browser to access the full catalogue) | MS91 |
| Title | Commonplace book of Henry Carder |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| Date | 1859-1869 |
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| Description | Volume largely comprises manuscript poetry and also includes hymns, public addresses, sketches and typescript poems mostly composed during 1860. Inserts include a notebook comprising manuscript poetry composed during 1859. A later typescript poem written in memory of Henry Carder's nephew, Joseph, is also inserted into the volume, 1869 |
| Access Conditions | Access to all registered researchers |
| Copyright | Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-collections@bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Language | English |
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| Access Status | Open |
| Physical Description | Volume contains a number of loose inserts |
| Creator Name | Carder, Henry (c 1843-c 1933) |
| Administrative History | Henry Carder (c 1843-c 1933) was the son of George (c 1796-1874) and Gertrude Carder (nee Cree, c 1803-1875). George and Gertrude married on 17 February 1822 in Brampton, Derbyshire but are recorded as living at addresses in Kingswinford in various census returns of the mid-nineteenth century. The Carder family was large and the 1851 census records the names and ages of the Carder children living at the parental home: Mary, aged 27; Elizabeth, aged 22; George, aged 20; Joseph, aged 17; Caleb, aged 14; Henry, aged 8; and Eliza, aged 5. These returns record that George senior, Mary, George junior, Joseph and Caleb were all employed as stone ware makers while Elizabeth is listed as a servant. By the 1861 census, a year or two after the bulk of Henry's commonplace book had been written, the Carders are recorded as living at Brockmoor Lays, Kingswinford. George, now aged 65, is listed as an earthernware maker employing six men and six women. Henry, now aged 18, is recorded as still living in the family home but is of 'no occupation'. Also living in the home was Henry's nephew, Joseph Carder (c 1852-1869), in whose memory Henry wrote a poem which is inserted in the commonplace book.
The Carder family were potters and earthernware manufacturers based in Stourbridge and Brierley Hill. The family firm traded under the name 'G. Carder and Sons'. Following George senior's death in 1874 it appears that Henry took over the family business with two of his elder brothers: Joshua (c 1834-1908) and Caleb (c 1837-1910). The three brothers were appointed executors of their father's will and probate was granted in Lichfield on 31 March 1874. Gertrude died a year later and Henry Carder of Moor Street, Brierley Hill was listed as next of kin.
Henry married Emily Turner in 1867 and had a large family. Census returns indicate that the couple's children included Gertrude, Henry, Lawrence, Edgar, Mabel, Elsie, Ewart and Jessie. Sometime after the 1891 census Henry and Emily relocated to Liverpool and the 1901 census records that Henry was a 'manufacturer's agent (bricks)'. His death was registered in Liverpool in the first quarter of 1933.
Henry's brother Caleb married Ann (Annie) Wadelin in 1858 and the 1881 census return lists their children: William Henry, aged 20; Frederick, aged 17; Annie, aged 13; George, aged 12; Albert Henry, aged 8; and Arthur, aged 5. Caleb's son Frederick (1863-1963) is listed as an earthernware potter and did work at the Carder family pottery business whilst attending the Stourbridge School of Art and the Dudley Mechanic Institute. He then emigrated to America where he became a very successful glass worker and artist, managing Steuben Glass Works in Corning, New York from its founding in 1903 until 1932. It is said that he had become fascinated with glassmaking after visiting the studio of John Northwood in Stourbridge.
Sources viewed 2 September 2012: the London Gazette website available at http://www.london-gazette.co.uk; the Corning Museum of Glass website available at http://www.cmog.org/article/frederick-carder-biography-young-audiences; Free Births, Marriages and Deaths website available at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/; census records retrieved from Ancestry available at http://search.ancestry.co.uk |
| Acquisition | Purchased 31 January 2002 |
| Archival Note | Description prepared by Mark Eccleston, September 2012, in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |