It was probably when I was about eight or nine years old that, on a visit with my parents to see my grandmother Edith (my father's mother Gran) in Sheffield, that I was taken to see this very old gentleman who was lying in bed. I guess that this was Gran's father Charles Haywood Hoyland who died on the 15th December 1954 aged 89. Records show that this was at 22 Bannerdale Road, Sheffield. It seems that he wanted to see great grandchildren before he died. Charles was born on 21st September 1865 and for some reason he was always called Twig.
We know that (according to the 1901 census) when Charles was 35 he had inherited the Queen's Brushworks from his father Charles Hoyland, then 71 years old and living with his wife Hannah, his daughters (Kate and Isabel now 33 and 26) and two servants in Norwood House, Dore New Road, Sheffield. Charles Haywood Hoyland lived in nearby Totley Brook Road with his wife Louisa and four children including my grandmother Edith. They have a governess and one servant.
My post of 23rd February says: The wealth created by the business (The Queen's Brushworks) meant that Kate and Isabel were able to live off private means for the rest of their lives. But I have a feeling that Charles Haywood Hoyand was not in the same class as a business man as his predecessors, and that the business finally folded. See post of 29th January 2020 about "The Queen's Brushworks", and on 23rd February 2009 about "Three Generations of Brush Manufacturers" and again "The Hoyland Inheritance" on 13th December 2013.
Charles Haywood Hoyland is buried with other members of his family in Norton Cemetery in Sheffield in the Hoyland Family Monument. See post 22nd March 2013.
You may just be able to make out the name of Charles Haywood Hoyland at the top of the next to last base.
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