James Rhodes
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The 1881 Census of the address of 30 Clarendon Road, Leeds shows: JAMES RHODES - Wholesale Clothing Manufacturer (Tailor) age 50 (born c1830, Lindley, Yorks), also his wife ANNE RHODES age 29 (born 24 April 1851, Keighley), son Thomas H Rhodes 7 months (born Leeds) and a servant & nursemaid.
The marriage certificate for James RHODES and Martha Anne BRIGGS shows they married 26 Feb 1877 at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds. At the time he was a widower age 46, job was Wholesale Clothier and his residence was Bright Street, Wellington Rd, New Wortley, Leeds and his father JOHN RHODES was a Clothier. Martha Anne (aka Ann) was age 25, Spinster of 25 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds.
I don't know if this bit of information is a link to the same James Rhodes? (Source: Wikipedia)
In 1864 Joseph Hepworth went into business with James Rhodes, his wife's brother, as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 their factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and, unusually, made all three pieces of a gentleman's three-piece suit. In the 1880's they innovated further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops.
Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death Joseph Hepworth & Son was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded Joseph Hepworth & Son, a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc.
The 1881 Census of the address of 30 Clarendon Road, Leeds shows: JAMES RHODES - Wholesale Clothing Manufacturer (Tailor) age 50 (born c1830, Lindley, Yorks), also his wife ANNE RHODES age 29 (born 24 April 1851, Keighley), son Thomas H Rhodes 7 months (born Leeds) and a servant & nursemaid.
The marriage certificate for James RHODES and Martha Anne BRIGGS shows they married 26 Feb 1877 at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds. At the time he was a widower age 46, job was Wholesale Clothier and his residence was Bright Street, Wellington Rd, New Wortley, Leeds and his father JOHN RHODES was a Clothier. Martha Anne (aka Ann) was age 25, Spinster of 25 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds.
I don't know if this bit of information is a link to the same James Rhodes? (Source: Wikipedia)
In 1864 Joseph Hepworth went into business with James Rhodes, his wife's brother, as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 their factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and, unusually, made all three pieces of a gentleman's three-piece suit. In the 1880's they innovated further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops.
Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death Joseph Hepworth & Son was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded Joseph Hepworth & Son, a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc.