Baptisms of William, Sarah and Richard not found in Dorset records, probably born in Devon, where personal register searches have not been made. Sarah was the first Waygood to be given that name, and although used earlier Richard does not occur in Somerset between 1599 and 1749; both are thought to have been "borrowed" from the Devon Wares, with whom they were very popular according to IGI.
See William c 23.7.1686, immediately above. The following appeared in Sherborne Mercury of 20.7.1752 (result unknown!),
'Stolen or strayed out of Beaminster Common, in the County of Dorset, the 28th of May, A little Black Nagg, never jointed, five Years old, lost an Eye on the further Side: and a little black Horse Colt, one Year old. Whosoever will bring News of the same to William Waygood, Butcher, in Beaminster, shall have a handsome Reward.'
See William c 23.7.1686, this section above. Burials of Richard and wife Sarah not found could have taken place in 1783/94 stamp duty period; there was an Independent Chapel at Beaminster from 1796 or before, but no records of any burials there are available. A 1775 survey/census shows Richard to have been living in Hogshill Street, Beaminster (part of Bridport-Yeovil road, A3066), with wife and male child, the home being owned by a Thomas Gollop. Richard Hine's 1914 History of Beaminster (HBH) records a disastrous fire there on 31.3.1781, and a distribution to "poor sufferers", including Richard, who received £24.14s.6d; the survey/census shows the population of the town at that time as 1,708, and of the parish 1,955.
has been linked to William b 1715 on the basis of the names William and Anna Maria, which occur in both families, and the use by the earlier Anna Maria at marriage of the name Rosanne, a variant of which also occurs in the younger William's family; neither of the girls' names or variants appear elsewhere in the family before 1865. It is likely that William was the eldest child, and Wolborough, where his children were baptized, is only about ten miles from the Kenton area, where his grandfather and great-aunt, Anne, were married, and his attributed father was probably born. App. C 564 could refer to ;William’s widow(?), Ann; no other known candidate.
may have gone to Devon with William m 17,9.1760.
married as Rosanne.
(as shown). Keturah, a Hebrew name meaning "fragrance", married as Catherine, signed register as C/Katuerah or Catrenah, or similar.
baker. HBH relates that he took a parish apprentice in 1794, and that in 1914 the indentures were in the parish chest; they cannot now be found, although many others, earlier and later, are at the Record Office. Hine wrongly connects the apprentice with Richard b 13,10,1806.
husband butcher, children baptised Beaminster 7.8.1811 Mary, 21.6.1826 Peter.
See Mary c 20.3.1773, Sec. 1.
on muster roll of Beaminster Loyal Town Volunteers inaugurated 22.6.1798, and partner in Bishop & Waygood, maltsters, of Market Place, Beaminster, 1829 (HBH). With son Richard b 1806 prominently involved in construction and opening of Horn Hill Tunnel, immediately North of the town. HBH records the ceremony, on 12.4.1830, of the cutting of the first sod (with extracts from the Western Flying Post, Sherborne & Yeovil Mercury of 19th April, 1830) and relates:
' About 12 o'clock a great number of gentlemen and most respectable tradesmen met near the market-house, and forming themselves into pairs, proceeded to the hill with banners flying, and a band of music; the first flag having the word 'Emulation' on it was carried by Mr. Waygood, whose zeal in the cause has always been conspicuous. ' The opening ceremony, on 29th June, 1832, was a very grand affair, the half-mile long procession from the town, along a route lined with 'an immense mass of spectators (overall total not less than nine thousand Persons)' included two bands, and comprised Bridport and Taunton mail coach, with clerk to the commissioners, engineer and surveyor; Patron of the undertaking and Treasurer of the Trust, in open carriage drawn by four horses; Commissioners of the Trust, accompanied by other gentlemen on horseback, two and two, forming a line of upwards of one hundred; Ladies and gentlemen, in about sixty carriages of all descriptions; Two flags, one bearing the Royal Arms, the other inscribed 'God Save the King'; About one hundred gentlemen (visitors) on foot, two and two; Gentlemen (inhabitants of Beaminster) on foot, two and two; Gentlemen on horseback, about two hundred, two and two; Banner bearing the motto, 'Pro Bono Publico'; workmen of different trades employed on the Tunnel, each bearing some instrument emblematic of his calling: masons, carpenters, smiths, braziers, wheelwrights &c. (Mr. Waygood's braziers bore a banner with emblematic device and appropriate motto); Labourers employed in excavating the Tunnel, carrying shovels and pickaxes.
There were three 21-gun salutes, and a fair was held during the day on the summit of Horn Hill. Celebrations continued with a dinner at which a song specially-composed to celebrate the event was sung by Richard (1781); numerous toasts were drunk, including one to 'Mr. Waygood and the Beaminster Choir'. The day's events concluded with a fireworks display from the Church tower, and the ascent of a large Montgolfeir (hot-air) balloon from a field adjoining the town. Richard on 1835 parliamentary voters list, qualification copyhold tenancy of house in Hogshill Street, his occupation , 1816, tinman, wife Ann's parents Joseph and Rebecca. Positive identification of the flag-carrier of 1830 and brazier employer of 1832 is difficult; it seems unlikely that junior was the maltster partner.
Children, to 1812, 211 Beaminster, c 19.4.1805 Sarah, c 21.9.1806 bu 24.3.1807 William, c 17.2.1808 William, b 1.1.1810 John, b 22.4.1812 Anne.
See Richard c 18.11.1781, this section above. Marriage, by license, wrongly recorded in name Haygood, buried, as was his widow, Chatfield, at Elmers End Cemetery, Beckenham, lived in his later years at Darley Villa, Oakfield Road, Penge, although for health reasons spent winter months in Italy for some years prior to and following retirement in 1874. Richard and wife had no children of their own, but adopted a daughter, Anne Marie Christine, b 1851/2 St. John's wood, London (surname at birth unknown), who married David Crole Dalgavins, civil engineer, and by 1881 had daughters Sophia Annie Crole and Rachel Theodora Chatfield; there was no system of legal adoption in U.K. until 1927 Living at Darley Villa with Chatfield in 1&81 were her unmarried sisters Julia and Anne Green, in other houses in Oakfield Road formerly owned by Richard were the Dalgavins and his niece Sophia Stainburn (formerly Green), husband William, wholesale tea dealer, and three children. Post Office directories show Richard as agricultural implement manufacturer at 46, Bridghouse Place, Southwark, 1842/56, and by 1860 at 56:, Newington Causeway nearby, where he conducted general engineering work, including water wheels and sawing machinery. In 1863 he built a new factory in Roberts Place, Falmouth Road, a short distance away,
and transferred the name, Waygood Newington Iron forks, to the new site; a much-extended establishment was still operating there in the 1930s, and probably still exists.
Richard's business career appears to have commenced with the setting-up of an iron foundry in South Gate, Beaminster, and he was trading as ironmonger in the market place by 1830. The following payments are recorded in Beaminster churchwardens' accounts, viz
1837 - Waygood & Seymour for churchyard entrance gates, £37.10s.0d.
1839 - Mr. Waygood for repair to the organ, 2s.3d.
1840 - Waygood & Porter for iron rails at the churchyard, for New Burying Ground, £24.16s.3d.
Earlier (1833) the committee of the Congregational Chapel had resolved to install gas lighting, and that the order be given to Richard, who had no doubt assisted Benjamin Coombs Porter in the formation of the private Beaminster Gas, Coal and Coke Company, of which Richard was treasurer until his move to London in 1841, In 1863 the business at Falmouth Road employed fewer than 20 workmen, mainly involved in the manufacture of pumps presses, rice, sugar and flourmills, and cooking and heating apparatus, but also general engineering. Richard was joined in 1865 by 15 year-old employee Henry C. Walker who in his early days saw a great future for lifting appliances; in 1868 the first hydraulic lift was ordered, and in the same year hand-operated lifts for the British & Foreign Bible Society's new building in Queen Victoria Street, London (the latter were still working in 1914 when they were removed in the Course of building operations). The business produced the first British passenger lift in 1870, the Grand Hotel, Charing Cross, London, was opened in 1880 with a Waygood passenger lift, and in 1893 a hand-powered lift was installed at Balmoral for the personal use of Queen Victoria, to be followed by similar lifts at Osborne and Windsor. The first Waygood electric lift was displayed at Crystal Palace in 1890, and by the early years of the 20th century the business (R. Waygood & Co. 1872/94, limited company 1894/1914, Waygood Otis Ltd. 1914/57, Otis Elevator Ltd/PLC thereafter) was selling more than a thousand lifts and cranes a year.
By this time the Company's activities were world-wide, with principal foreign branches and agencies in Alexandria, Bombay, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Colombo, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Johannesburg, Lisbon, Melbourne, Moscow, Rangoon, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Sydney and Valparaiso, and well over 1,000 employees on the payroll (49 died in the 1914/18 War, 204 served and survived, including Albert Edward Waygood b 1896(3) Sec. 24).
The Company were lift manufacturers by appointment to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, and their lifts have been installed in Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace and Marlborough House, as well as various Government offices; the royal families of Portugal, Holland, Siam and Egypt had all been supplied prior to 1906. At sea prestigious installations included those on the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert (the first lift on board a ship) and ocean liners S.S. Amerika, for Harland & Wolff, Olympic and Titanic for White Star line, Lusitania and Mauretania for Cunard line, Queen Mary for Cunard-White Star line. As long ago as 1880, in reference to the installation at the Grand Hotel, the magazine 'Punch' had said, "If you want a lift go to Waygoods". The South London Press of 18.2.1910 said, "the (Waygood) business forms one of the foremost industries in South London"; Mr. Henry C. Walker, employee, partner, director and on retirement in 1934 the chairman of Waygood-Otis Ltd., said, of Richard, "it is given to few pioneers of trade to leave behind them such a goodly name as that of Waygood". (information on business career &c. from Histories of Beaminster (Richard Hine and Marie de G. Eedle) and Reminiscences of a Great Industry (Henry C. Walker)).