Ezra Hounsfield, Coach, Omnibus & Cab Proprietor, 3 Waingate also Thomas Percival

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Ezra Hounsfield, coach, omnibus and cab proprietor, 3 Waingate. 

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

Thomas Percival was in trade from 3 Waingate before Ezra Hounsfield joined him in partnership. 

Robson's Directory 1839. 

Coach Proprietor, Thomas Percival, 3 Waingate

Hounsfield, B, 2 Lit. Pond Street, Merchant. (perhaps a relative of Hounsfield) 

 

Whites Directory 1849

Hounsfield, Thomas, gentleman, Woodhill, Occupation Rd. (possibly related to Ezra) 

Under Coach Proprietor Including Hackney. 

Percival, Thomas, 3 Waingate. 

 

 

 

Whites Directory 1852. 

Hounsfield, Ezra, coach proprietor, (Percival & H) h. 77 Occupation Road. 

Hounsfield, Thomas, gentleman, Woodhill, Occupation Road. (possible relative) 

Percival & Hounsfield, coach, cab, hearse &etc, 3 Waingate and 20 Stanley Street. 

Percival, Thomas, coach & etc, proprietor, h. 3 Waingate. 

 

Kelly's Directory 1854. 

Percival & Hounsfield, cab proprietors, mourning hearse proprietors, 3 Waingate. 

 

London Gazette, dissolution of partnerships, Thos Percival & Ezra Hounsfield. 

 

Advertisement from Whites Directory 1856.

Whites Directory 1856. 

Hounsfield, Ezra, coach, omnibus and hearse &etc, proprietor, 3 Waingate. 

Hounsfield, Thomas, gentleman, Springwood, Grimesthorpe Road (is he related to Ezra) 

Percival, Mr. Thomas, (late coach proper) h Prospect Pl., Occupation Road. 

 

 

Whites Directory 1862. 

Hounsfield, Ezra, coach, cab, omnibus and funeral hearse proprietor, 3 Waingate, h. Wood View, Burngreave Road. 

Hounsfield, Mrs. Mary, 1 Fox Street. 

Stanley Street, 39, Hounsfield, E, coach popr. 

Percival, Thomas, gentleman, 75 Occupation Road. 

Percival, Thos, vict. refreshment rooms, Manchester Station. 

 

Hounsfield also Rubbins and Hounsfield. 

Rubbins, Isaac, vict., omnibus and cab proprietor, Shakespeare, 130 Gibraltar Street. 

 

Local Studies Obituary Index Sheffield Telegraph. 

Thomas Percival, Veteran Coach Proprietor, 18th July 1868.

Ezra Hounsfield 23rd August 1870

Possibly related to Ezra

Thomas Hounsfield of Grimesthorpe, 22nd April 1859

 

Whites Directory 1879

Waingate, 3, Ward, William, chemist.

Hounsfield, Mrs. Nancy, Elm Cottage, 142 Rock Street. Possibly widow of Ezra

Nancy Hounsfield died 3rd Q 1884 aged 81.

 

Thought perhaps Ezra married into the Percival family. Free Bmd only marriage for Ezra 1st Q 1850 Kensington, to possibly, Nancy Raywood.

Perhaps it was a 2nd or even 3rd marriage for one or both of them. 

There is Nancy Percival, married 3rdQ 1842 Manchester; 4thQ 1843 Runcorn or 1st Q 1849, Manchester. 

 

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Sheffield Flood Claim: 

Ezra Hounsfield, Omnibus and Cab & Co. Proprietor, 3 Waingate. 

This Claim was for his premises on Stanley Street where he had a Coach House. Damage done to a number of Cabs, Omnibus, Carriages etc. plus injury to a Bay Mare. 

 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=3-2721

 

Thomas Theaker, Mr. Hounsfield Manager, Yard next Mr. Hounsfield Coach House, Stanley Street. 

 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4521

 

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Wood View residence of Ezra Hounsfield 1862 Directory. 1850's Map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345217#zoom=6&lat=8538&lon=12235&layers=BT

 

1850's Map Location of Prospect Place & Occupation Road (what is now named Spital Hill and continued on what is now named Grimesthorpe Road.)

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345217#zoom=6&lat=7964&lon=12721&layers=BT

 

1850's Map Location of Woodhill, Occupation Road (now Grimesthorpe Road) residence of Thomas Hounsfield, possible relative of Ezra. 

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345217#zoom=5&lat=9717&lon=13579&layers=BT

 

1850's Map of showing Waingate (No 3 would have been next to the Town Hall) from where Hounsfield Coaches departed and Stanley Street and Wicker area that was affected by the Flood of 1864 where Ezra had his Coach House Premises.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345217#zoom=6&lat=7001&lon=12154&layers=BT

 

 

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Wood View, Burngreave Road residence of Ezra Hounsfield 1862 Directory 

Elm Cottage, Rock Street, residence of Nancy Hounsfield, 1879 Directory.