William Turton Stacey, Piano & Harmonium Dealer, West Street later High Street.

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William Stacey, piano & harmonium dealer, 91 & 93 West Street. 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862.

William Turton Stacey, eldest son of Ebenezer Stacey, silversmith and Brittannia metal manufacturer. The musical William, gave music lessons and played the organ at Mount Zion Chapel. His first shop was on West Street. 

Whites Directory 1852

Stacey, William, music seller & stationer, 11 West Street. 

Whites Directory 1862

Stacey, William, music professor and dealer & piano-forte warehouse, 91 & 93 West Street. 

 

In 1865 he moved to High Street.

Advertisement from "Sheffield Red Book" 1875

The shop stood on the corner of High Street & York Street on a site occupied by the Crown Inn until 1770 when Thomas Ventnor purchased it and created York Street. Stacey's shop was later demolished and replaced by the London & Midland Bank. 

 

Whites Directory 1879

Stacey, William Turton, piano-forte & harmonium dealer, music seller and American warehouse, 5 High Street, 65 Westbourne Road.

 

65, Westbourne Road, built for William still stands on the corner of Westbourne Road and Clarkehouse Road, has the initials WTS and 1865 carved around the sculpture of St. Cecilia, patron saint of muscians. 

A generous man, after his father died without making a will, shared the money he could have claimed for himself. Financial problems led to bankruptcy 1883. Devasted, William also an Alderman fled to America, returned a broken a man, ending up in Southport. Extremely ill with inflammation of the lungs, his wife who had remained in Sheffield hurried to be with him, he died the following day on the 30th November 1884 aged 62 years. 

Information from "The Story of Sheffield High Street" by Pat Dallman. 

 

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Link to

65 Westbourne Road

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/16939-65-westbourne-rd/

 

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William Turton Stacey, 5 High Street and Pawson & Brailsford, East Parade and the Church Gates

 

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From Past Chapters in Sheffield History, James Hayton Stainton (1918)

 

[mistertaylor]

William was a distant relative of mine (1st cousin 5x removed) and I wasn't aware of his music shop - however, I found this newspaper clipping on Ancestry, but not sure what paper its from other than it's dated 1884. Interestingly I recently found a house sale notice (262 Somerset House, Lower St, St. Philips Road) for James Vickers Stacey from 1st March 1873 in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph where one of the items listed for sale was a "7 octave walnut cottage pianoforte, nearly new". Wonder if this was purchased from William?

William's obituary also appears in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph on Saturday 06 December 1884 and in the Sheffield Independent on Tuesday 02 December 1884.

[Edmund]

Here's a better copy:

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Advertisement Whites Directory 1856.

Whites Directory 1856.

Stacey, Wm., music professor and dealer. 93 West Street. 

 

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Link to:

Mr. William Turton Stacey

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/19686-mr-william-turton-stacey/