Dolman's Chemists
Richard Dolman writes...
William Dolman the chemist was my great grandfather. His son Rev William Dolman, married a local girl named Alice Maud May Spencer, the youngest daughter of Thomas Spencer, a watch and clock maker, of Prospect Cottage in Bath Road.
When Alice's father died her older brother ran the clock business but left and went off to Kingswood. Alice and her mother moved into Everton Cottage or Lodge, behind the Chemist shop and I suppose this is how William and Alice met. They married in Birmingham even though Rev William was at this time, in 1902, a curate in the East of London.
The other son Thomas Tustin Dolman qualified as a chemist. He married a first cousin named Ethel Idina Fleck, her mother being Annie (nee Nott) a sister of William the Chemist. When Thomas Tustin Dolman married his Ethel Idina this was at St. Peter's Fulham in 1901 the brother William carrying out their wedding service.
How strange that the family chemist shop is now Rowland as where I now live in Orpington, Kent, our local chemist is also part of that same chain. William the Chemist qualified in 1873 and shortly thereafter took over the Bath Road shop, then known as Everton House. His widow, with daughter Ethel, later lived in Leckhampton and above the door they named the house Everton there too.
William Dolman the chemist was my great grandfather. His son Rev William Dolman, married a local girl named Alice Maud May Spencer, the youngest daughter of Thomas Spencer, a watch and clock maker, of Prospect Cottage in Bath Road.
When Alice's father died her older brother ran the clock business but left and went off to Kingswood. Alice and her mother moved into Everton Cottage or Lodge, behind the Chemist shop and I suppose this is how William and Alice met. They married in Birmingham even though Rev William was at this time, in 1902, a curate in the East of London.
The other son Thomas Tustin Dolman qualified as a chemist. He married a first cousin named Ethel Idina Fleck, her mother being Annie (nee Nott) a sister of William the Chemist. When Thomas Tustin Dolman married his Ethel Idina this was at St. Peter's Fulham in 1901 the brother William carrying out their wedding service.
How strange that the family chemist shop is now Rowland as where I now live in Orpington, Kent, our local chemist is also part of that same chain. William the Chemist qualified in 1873 and shortly thereafter took over the Bath Road shop, then known as Everton House. His widow, with daughter Ethel, later lived in Leckhampton and above the door they named the house Everton there too.