Memoir of Henry Price: "The diary of a working man long resident in Islington" c1824-c1908

Morris, William, 1834-1896

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Price, Henry Edward 1824-1908

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Henry Price (1824-1908?) spent his childhood as an inmate at the workhouse at Warminister, Wiltshire (England). He went to Bristol in 1832 and remained there until 1842, when he was sent to America under the Poor Law immigration scheme. He worked as a carpenter in Staten Island and Oswego, New York. He returned to England in 1848. He practiced his trade in Bristol until 1850 when he moved to London, settling in the Islington district where he lived for 58 years until his death in 1908. At the en...

Henry E Price cabinet maker

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Henry Edward Price was born illegitimate in Warminster in 1824. Abandoned by his family, he spent much of his youth in the workhouse. In 1842, aged 17, he emigrated to America, where he spent some time learning aspects of the furniture-making trade, both in New York and in Oswego on Lake Ontario. He returned to England in 1849, although he was in poor health and suffered poverty for the next few years while he travelled the country looking for work. He became skilled as a cabinet maker and has b...