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John Loader (16)
07/07/1842 –11/07/1880
John Loader (16)
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Plot 16 John Loader
John Loader was born into a well-established Berkhamsted family and lived in the town throughout his life. Born on 7th July 1842 and baptised at St Peter’s on 31st July that year, he was the third child of George Loader (Senior) and Sarah née Tomlin. He had an older sister, Sarah, born on 22nd Sept 1831 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 16th October 1831 and an older brother George (Junior), born on 28th June 1839 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 21st July that year. The family lived in Castle Street and his father worked as a Cordwainer (shoemaker).
John had a younger brother William, who was born on 30th June 1846 and baptised at St Peter’s on 26th July. However, he died aged 4 on 6th January 1851 and was buried in Plot 175 at Rectory Lane. His age is recorded as 5 on the headstone, though he was actually in his fifth year.
The 1851 Census shows 8 year old John and his family still living in Castle Street. His father, by then 43 years old, was recorded as a Journeyman Shoemaker while his 19 year old sister Sarah worked as a Dress Maker. John and his 11 year old brother George were both at school. The Census was taken on 30th March 1851, so their brother William had died almost three months earlier.
By 7th April 1861, 18 year old John was a Carpenter’s Apprentice still living at home in Castle Street, Berkhamsted with his widowed father George and his siblings Sarah and George Junior, neither of whom had yet married. His mother Sarah had died on 13th January that year and was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery (Plot 175). Her age was recorded as 53, though she was in fact 57. John’s 21 year old brother George worked with their father as a Shoe Maker while his sister Sarah, aged 28, was a Dress Maker.
However, the 1871 Census showed that John did not continue working as a Carpenter. By then he was living in Berkhamsted High Street with his 69 year old maternal uncle, John Tomlin, a retired Shoemaker and working, like his father and brother, as a Shoe Maker.
From 1874 or possibly earlier, John Loader was a Vice-President of the Berkhamsted Working Men’s Club, which was founded in 1870 and had a Club Room in the High Street. Its aims were set out in a report of its 6th Annual Meeting in the Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News of 23rd October 1875. In that article, the President, Mr T Read, noted that “A Working Men’s Club should be a public-house without intoxicating drinks, where working men can meet together for pleasant conversation on social and political subjects, lively song, pleasing recitation, games of various descriptions without gambling. It was well to work but there must be a time for recreation.” The Secretary’s report commented that “the Committee note with pleasure the respectability and creditable demeanour of the members at the Club-room… They feel assured that by providing an inviting room, in which, during their leisure hours, working men may rationally amuse and improve themselves at a cost of only 1s per quarter, they are helping to supply a long felt want.” It is not clear when John Loader first became a Vice-President of the Working Men’s Club but he was re-elected at that meeting and still held the position at the time of his death.
There is no evidence that John married and he died, aged only 38, on 11th July 1880. Three days later he was buried in Plot 16, the service taken by The Revd. J. W. Cobb, Rector of St Peter’s. The Bucks Herald of 17th July 1880 gave the following information: “Mr Loader was a sergeant of Volunteers, engineer of the Fire Brigade, a ringer at the Parish Church and a vice-president of the Working Men’s Club, and the occasion was a marked one. The Volunteers in large numbers followed the corpse, the band playing the “Dead March”. At the grave the customary three volleys were fired. The Rev. Mr. Cobb conducted the service, a large number of persons being present. A heavy thunderstorm came on at the grave and marred the ceremony.”
John’s obituary makes clear that, like his father and his brother George, he was a public-spirited man and a good citizen of Berkhamsted.
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Plot 16 John Loader
John Loader was born into a well-established Berkhamsted family and lived in the town throughout his life. Born on 7th July 1842 and baptised at St Peter’s on 31st July that year, he was the third child of George Loader (Senior) and Sarah née Tomlin. He had an older sister, Sarah, born on 22nd Sept 1831 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 16th October 1831 and an older brother George (Junior), born on 28th June 1839 and baptised at St Peter’s Berkhamsted on 21st July that year. The family lived in Castle Street and his father worked as a Cordwainer (shoemaker).
John had a younger brother William, who was born on 30th June 1846 and baptised at St Peter’s on 26th July. However, he died aged 4 on 6th January 1851 and was buried in Plot 175 at Rectory Lane. His age is recorded as 5 on the headstone, though he was actually in his fifth year.
The 1851 Census shows 8 year old John and his family still living in Castle Street. His father, by then 43 years old, was recorded as a Journeyman Shoemaker while his 19 year old sister Sarah worked as a Dress Maker. John and his 11 year old brother George were both at school. The Census was taken on 30th March 1851, so their brother William had died almost three months earlier.
By 7th April 1861, 18 year old John was a Carpenter’s Apprentice still living at home in Castle Street, Berkhamsted with his widowed father George and his siblings Sarah and George Junior, neither of whom had yet married. His mother Sarah had died on 13th January that year and was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery (Plot 175). Her age was recorded as 53, though she was in fact 57. John’s 21 year old brother George worked with their father as a Shoe Maker while his sister Sarah, aged 28, was a Dress Maker.
However, the 1871 Census showed that John did not continue working as a Carpenter. By then he was living in Berkhamsted High Street with his 69 year old maternal uncle, John Tomlin, a retired Shoemaker and working, like his father and brother, as a Shoe Maker.
From 1874 or possibly earlier, John Loader was a Vice-President of the Berkhamsted Working Men’s Club, which was founded in 1870 and had a Club Room in the High Street. Its aims were set out in a report of its 6th Annual Meeting in the Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News of 23rd October 1875. In that article, the President, Mr T Read, noted that “A Working Men’s Club should be a public-house without intoxicating drinks, where working men can meet together for pleasant conversation on social and political subjects, lively song, pleasing recitation, games of various descriptions without gambling. It was well to work but there must be a time for recreation.” The Secretary’s report commented that “the Committee note with pleasure the respectability and creditable demeanour of the members at the Club-room… They feel assured that by providing an inviting room, in which, during their leisure hours, working men may rationally amuse and improve themselves at a cost of only 1s per quarter, they are helping to supply a long felt want.” It is not clear when John Loader first became a Vice-President of the Working Men’s Club but he was re-elected at that meeting and still held the position at the time of his death.
There is no evidence that John married and he died, aged only 38, on 11th July 1880. Three days later he was buried in Plot 16, the service taken by The Revd. J. W. Cobb, Rector of St Peter’s. The Bucks Herald of 17th July 1880 gave the following information: “Mr Loader was a sergeant of Volunteers, engineer of the Fire Brigade, a ringer at the Parish Church and a vice-president of the Working Men’s Club, and the occasion was a marked one. The Volunteers in large numbers followed the corpse, the band playing the “Dead March”. At the grave the customary three volleys were fired. The Rev. Mr. Cobb conducted the service, a large number of persons being present. A heavy thunderstorm came on at the grave and marred the ceremony.”
John’s obituary makes clear that, like his father and his brother George, he was a public-spirited man and a good citizen of Berkhamsted.
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