I have been exploring on my genealogy – The Masters family from the websites. There was one email message came to our email inbox and it was about the census records in London, UK.
Our great grandfather – Harry came to New Zealand during World War One or before 1914. He met his future wife – Rose where she was born in Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand and lived in Christchurch, New Zealand. Harry died before I turned 16 years old in 1980. Our family did not contact him except our late grandfather Alan and his brother – Keith. Keith was the only family in Wellington where Harry lived there with his second wife. Note: Harry remarried to another lady – Ellen where he met her down in Wellington in 1932. There was no further children except a stepchild – Ellen’s child from her first marriage.
I always wonder what kind of job do Harry, and his father does in the old days. I know that Harry was an army driver under Canterbury Infantry Battalion C Company and a plasterer around in Wellington. I do not recall what kind of job that Harry had done in Christchurch. My mother told me that Harry moved around Christchurch by looking for a job or got a short term job during the Depression Years. Life was tough especially with the economy, income for a family and bills to pay.
Now I wonder what kind of job does Harry’s father – George Jacob Masters work in Hackney, London. I found one of the records under George Masters through Census in the UK. His occupation was a newspaper compositor in Chatham Place, London. What is a compositor do in the workplace?? A person who put text font or a block of the font into the large frame of the block before putting in the printing machine. Fast forward to 1910, technology changed from the manual compositor equipment to eletrontic equipment. Today it is a digtal compositor equipment.
The next step is I will do more research where does George work along Chatham Place, Hackney, what is the name of the newspaper business and many other interesting places around Hackney.
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