OCCUPATION

House painter and glazier

DATES

Born: Finstock, 27 Nov 1864

Married: Ada Ann MITCHELL at Worcester,
                                                5 Nov 1887
Died: 1 Sept 1954, Evesham, Worcestershire

residence

Initially Finstock, near Charlbury, Oxfordshire. Moved to Worcester and lived rest of his life there, whilst maintaining contact with relatives in Oxfordshire.

SUBMITTED BY

Tony HADLAND, great-grandson of Stephen Hadland

related face

Stephen HADLAND (father)

relevant web site

www.hadland.me.uk/family_tree/index.html

Background information

By the time George William HADLAND was 16, the prospects for agricultural labourers in west Oxfordshire were not good. There was a railway station in his home village, Finstock, and so it seems the teenager took the train to Worcester. There he became apprenticed to a plumber, glazier and decorator. After his apprenticeship, he became self-employed. His move away from farming into the building industry set a trend for his descendants. His only son carried on the painting and decorating business, his only grandson became an architectural technician and one of his great-grandsons became a chartered building surveyor. The portrait shown here was taken at a studio in Worcester at the time of his wedding. Sadly, his bride died only 10 years after their marriage, as a result of a dental anaesthetic. George William, however, lived to be almost 90 years old.