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Captions for Bury St Edmunds Spanton Family
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William Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1860
Caption:
William Spanton (1822-1870). Founder of the photographic business. His repository of Arts and West Suffolk Photographic Establishment housed in the building of his design at 16 Abbeygate Street was operating by 1864. The business initially encompassed a variety of building and decorative trades, but by the late 1860s he concentrated on photographic framing and gilding.
Title
Spanton Family Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1865
Caption:
William Spanton seated with his wife Sarah. Standing behind are their three children, Sarah Rebecca, William Silas and Hannah Kate.
Title
The Misses Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Daughters of William Spanton. Seated Hannah Kate and her sister Sarah Rebecca.
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Mr & Mrs Hardy's Wedding Group, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
1870
Caption:
The wedding of Miss Sarah Rebecca Spanton and the Rev. William Kimber Hardy took place in Bury St Edmunds in September 1870. The picture shows William and Sarah seated. Sarah's brother William Silas Spanton is standing on the left of the photograph and the Rev. Hardy's brother, Charles K Hardy, the best man, is standing on the right. The bridesmaid to the far right is Sarah's sister, Hannah Kate Spanton. The other two bridesmaids are sisters of the groom.
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Mrs Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Mrs Hardy, nee Sarah Rebecca Spanton and sister of the photographer William Silas Spanton.
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Revd W.K. Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
n d
Caption:
William Kimber Hardy was born in Yorkshire in 1840. He spent his childhood in York, where his father, Charles, was a Fancy Goods Dealer. Census returns of 1861 show that William had moved to Lambeth with his widowed mother, Sarah, and siblings. He was listed as an architect's pupil. He later became a Wesleyan Methodist minister and in 1870 married Sarah Rebecca Spanton in Bury St Edmunds. The photograph was taken by his brother-in-law, W S Spanton. See K505/698 for William's conjectural drawing of the Abbey in Bury St Edmunds.
Title
Revd W K Hardy, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
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Miss Hannah Kate Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Born in 1852 .Youngest daughter of William Spanton.
Title
W.S. Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
c 1870
Caption:
A gifted artist, William Silas gave up his place at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to take over the business on the death of his father. He diversified into the sale of art materials and ran the business successfully for 30 years. William was prominent in local affairs and involved in the conversion of Moyses Hall into a museum. His interest in painting continued and he gained a reputation as a copyist (his copy of Sir Joshua Reynold's portrait of Augustus John Hervey was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 1919). In 1901 he sold the business to Henry Isaac Jarman, and he and his family returned to London where he pursued his career as an artist and writer. He died aged 85 after a motor accident on Christmas Eve in Blackheath.
Title
Mrs William Spanton, Bury St Edmunds.
Date:
nd
Caption:
Sarah King was born in 1821. She married William Spanton in 1843
Title
Mrs Spanton Senior, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Hannah Spanton, mother of William. Born 1804. Census records show her living with the family at 16 Abbeygate Street in 1861 (shopwoman) and in 1871 as grandmother.
Title
Miss Hannah Kate Spanton, Bury St Edmunds
Date:
nd
Caption:
Hannah, youngest daughter of William Spanton. Born 1852. Married Harry Tarrant in Bury St Edmunds in 1876
