Enos Howes 1788-1870
Enos was baptised on 3rd August 1788 in Mangotsfield. He married his first wife, Mary Scuse on 18th July 1815 at St Mary Redcliff, Bristol. Unfortunately Mary only lived for a further 14 years before she died on 15th April 1829 at the age of 36. Enos and Mary had 6 children.
William Scuse Howes 1818-1885
Harriet Howes 1819-1887 Harriet married Thomas Kent 1819-1892.
Aram 1820-
Jemima Howes 1821-
Aquilis Howes 1824-
and Jesse Howes 1825-1880
William Scuse Howes 1818-1885
Harriet Howes 1819-1887 Harriet married Thomas Kent 1819-1892.
Aram 1820-
Jemima Howes 1821-
Aquilis Howes 1824-
and Jesse Howes 1825-1880
Jemima Howes 1841 census
After Mary died Enos married Sarah Jones on 21st April 1834. They had a further four children,
Eliza 1836-
Robert 1838-
Enos 1840-1876
and George 1846-
Enos died 25th of July 1870 at 28 Gloucester Lane, Bristol at the age of 82.
Eliza 1836-
Robert 1838-
Enos 1840-1876
and George 1846-
Enos died 25th of July 1870 at 28 Gloucester Lane, Bristol at the age of 82.
Enos's son later advertised that his father set up his skinning and furrier business in 1833 in Gloucester Road. However, in 1833, Enos was beginning life as an insolvent debtor and likely spent time in prison. Notices in the London Gazette over the next four years described a complicated career for Enos and his second wife, who traded under her previous name of Sarah Jones, having been a journeyman furrier in London's Aldersgate Street. Enos was once of Kingswood Hill, a farmer and victualler, thence of Narrow Wine Street, and later a furrier and retailer of beer of Meadow Street (the Brass Knocker). Two years later, Enos married Sarah and she, seemingly, was also quickly in debt. Then, Enos worked as a furrier in Frome Place, Bristol, followed by Houlton Street where Sarah ran the Paul Pry Inn and, in 1837, moved to Moorfield as a beer retailer and fur cutter. William Howes, a son from Enos's first marriage, was a furrier in 1843 before taking over the Paul Pry between 1847-58; he then ran the Falcon at College Street until 1892. Enos's business was at Lawford Street while he lived and died at Gloucester Road.
Enos died in 1870, perhaps not surprisingly, from exhaustion and chronic paralysis, leaving some £50 to be shared around the family. Sarah followed four years later and among her effects was her cutter, a mangle-like machine with blades instead of rollers to separate the fur from the skin. It was Sarah's will which caused the next problem or rather her son Robert's handling of the estate. Another son, Enos junior, carried on the furrier business, but he died in 1876, aged just 34 years. Henry Pearson, a Bristol New Street butcher, either as a result of partnerships with one or both Enoses or through buying their business, advertised in the late 1870s as 'E Howes & Pearson, dealers in hare and rabbit skins, horse hair and whalebone'. The firm's premises were in Lawford Street, New Street and King Street. In 1880, Pearson and his wife Eliza took action against Robert over Sarah Howes's estate and invited similarly distressed individuals to join them. Perhaps Robert never delivered what Pearson thought he had bought. No result of the action has been found.
Jesse Howes, Enos's son cut fur at Elbroad Street in Bristol and evidently found good money in the business. He left £500 plus a £400 interest in property 'in Gloucestershire'. His widow, Ann, went into skin dealing from her home while their son, George, spent his life in that trade on the tramp with his family: St Olave, London, 1882; Rotherhithe, 1883-6; Old Kent Road, London, 1889; skinning rabbits Gloucester, 1891; Bristol, 1892; Derbyshire, 1895; Sheffield, 1897; Grantham, 1900; and Walthamstow, 1901.
Enos died in 1870, perhaps not surprisingly, from exhaustion and chronic paralysis, leaving some £50 to be shared around the family. Sarah followed four years later and among her effects was her cutter, a mangle-like machine with blades instead of rollers to separate the fur from the skin. It was Sarah's will which caused the next problem or rather her son Robert's handling of the estate. Another son, Enos junior, carried on the furrier business, but he died in 1876, aged just 34 years. Henry Pearson, a Bristol New Street butcher, either as a result of partnerships with one or both Enoses or through buying their business, advertised in the late 1870s as 'E Howes & Pearson, dealers in hare and rabbit skins, horse hair and whalebone'. The firm's premises were in Lawford Street, New Street and King Street. In 1880, Pearson and his wife Eliza took action against Robert over Sarah Howes's estate and invited similarly distressed individuals to join them. Perhaps Robert never delivered what Pearson thought he had bought. No result of the action has been found.
Jesse Howes, Enos's son cut fur at Elbroad Street in Bristol and evidently found good money in the business. He left £500 plus a £400 interest in property 'in Gloucestershire'. His widow, Ann, went into skin dealing from her home while their son, George, spent his life in that trade on the tramp with his family: St Olave, London, 1882; Rotherhithe, 1883-6; Old Kent Road, London, 1889; skinning rabbits Gloucester, 1891; Bristol, 1892; Derbyshire, 1895; Sheffield, 1897; Grantham, 1900; and Walthamstow, 1901.