Ladd, George Henry (1849-1933)

Family

The most likely candidate I have identified for this travelling preacher was George Henry Ladd, born in the summer of 1849 at Quadring, Lincolnshire, to parents William, a farmer of 17 acres (1851), and Ann.

Census returns identify the following occupation for George.

1861 scholar
1871 draper
1881 leather merchant
1891 leather merchant
1901 leather merchant
1911 fish salesman

He married Alice Louisa Spinks (abt1857-1940) in the spring of 1877 at Norwich, Norfolk. Census returns and birth records identify nine children.

Ida Beatrice (b abt1878) – a cookery teacher (1901); married Charles William Barker in 1906; widow with three children (1911)
Horace Reginald (abt1879-1879)
Ethel Maud (b1879) – a saleswoman drapery (1901); married Geoffrey Garrett in 1907
Lilian May (1881-1973) – married Henry Robert Mackay, a clerk (1911), in 1907
Archibald Cecil (1882-1899)
Mabel Lucy (1883-1964) – milliner (1901); a mother’s help (1911)
Sydney George (1885-1959) – a draper (1911)
Florence Elsie (1886-1970) – interviewer for National Institution of Apprentices (1911); married John P Craine, a pharmacist (1939), in 1913
Winifred Alice (1893-1980) – a telephonist (1911); married Arthur King, an editor of general and educational books (1939), in 1916

George died in late 1933 in Hampstead, London.