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James HARTLEY was born about 1704 in Bramley, Yorkshire. He was a probably a glassmaker.
Spouse: Sarah EDDISON. James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON were married on 9 Nov 1729 in Leeds Yorkshire. Children were: Margaret HARTLEY, Sarah HARTLEY, Sarah HARTLEY, Mary HARTLEY, Joseph HARTLEY, Margaret HARTLEY, Eleanor HARTLEY, Ruth HARTLEY, Elizabeth HARTLEY, James HARTLEY, Elizabeth HARTLEY, William HARTLEY, Benjamin HARTLEY.
James HARTLEY was born on 13 Mar 1811 in Dumbarton, Scotland. He was baptized on 29 Mar 1811 in Dumbarton, Scotland. He sent to Paris for glass work in 1872. He died on 24 May 1886. .James had Ashbrook Hall built in Bishopwearmouth by the architect Thomas Moore in 1864 and he Annie and Emma were still living there in 1881 (RG11 4994/48 89).
James died in 1886 the following is a concise biography from F. Boase's Modern English Biography.
Hartley, James (son of John Hartley of Haborne, Staffs. D. 1830) b. Dumbarton 181 0; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co. glassmakers, Smethwick; first used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the first in England to make German sheet glass; removed to Sunderland and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley's patented rolled plate glass in 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, madefrom it afortune; . mayor of Sunderland 1851-53; M.P. Sunderland 1865-8; A.L C.E. 5th May 1868. d. Ashbrook Hall, Sunderland 24th MAY 1886. Min. ofproc. Of Instit of C.E. Izzxs, 409-12 (1887).
JAMES HARTLEY M.P.
AMONG the distinguished captains of industry who have raised Sunderland to the rank of a first-class town, there is not one who took a more active and successful part than James Hartley, the founder of the colossal works known all over the world as the Wear Glass Works. Though not a native, no man took a deeper interest or had a more active hand in advancing the prosperity of the town in which he spent the greater part of his life. He was born on the 13th March, 1811, at Dumbarton, on the Clyde, where his father, Mr. John Hartley, an exceptionally clever glassmaker, from Harbourne, in Staffordshire, was then engaged in the management of extensive glassworks, said to have paid at one time duties to the government amounting to £119,000 per annum.
Mr. Hartley was thus a Scotchman by birth although the son of an Englishman, and he sometimes used to tell his friends in a joke that there was a thread of tartan in him as well as some points of the thistle. When his son James was yet a child, Mr. Hartley, senior, removed with his family to Nailsea, near Bristol, where he had undertaken the management of some crown glassworks, and where the boy received the elements of education at a private school, and about 10 years afterwards the family left Gloucestershire and removed to Smethwick, near Birmingham, where the old gentleman and his two sons, James and John, entered into partnership with Messrs. Chance & Co., the well-known glassmakers, who were the first to introduce into this country that description of window glass called German sheet-glass, and manufactured several other improved varieties, including stained and ornamental glass, glass for optical purposes, &c.
Young Mr. Hartley "won his spurs" as an inventor while a junior partner in this firm.
There being a heavy duty at that time upon glass (73s. 6d. per cwt.), it was important to manufacture it with as little waste as possible, as every particle, of course, paid toll to the Excise. The thick and heavy centre, or bullion part of the crown table, had long been a source of trouble, annoyance, and loss. It was formed by means of a hollow iron bar, along which the glass passed during the process of blowing, and Mr. Hartley discovered and substituted a thimble for this bar, thereby reduced to a minimum the size of the bull's eye, as it was commonly termed, and at the same time improved the quality of the glass. But this plan had the drawback of the thimble being too small to produce such large panes of glass as came to be in demand, and which manufacturers on the Continent had discovered how to produce by a new method of working the "metal." Instead of making it into the form of a round table, by this new plan it was made in the form of a cylinder having an entire plain surface, and became known as German Sheet. Seeing that it was absolutely necessary to adapt their works to improved process, Mr. James Hartley was sent to France & Belgium to learn how to make sheet glass, and this he soon did so effectually as to perfect himself in the minutest details, after which he returned to Birmingham, bringing with him a full set of sheet glassmakers, whose operations he for some time superintended. The first piece of German sheet glass made in England Mr. Hartley had cut into a square and put before a picture. Old Mr. Hartley died in 1833, and three years afterwards the whole family came to Sunderland, where, in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Hartley purchased a plot of ground at Millfield, belonging to General Beckwith, on which he began to erect glassworks on the most improved principles, and in the face of difficulties such as one can scarcely have any idea of now, for the farmers and gardeners near were all up in arms against the invasion, and many of them brought actions against the intruders for damages to their crops.
This would have been sufficient to dishearten a less energetic man, but after Mr. Hartley had got several judgments in his favour, the works were allowed to be carried on quietly, and in the course of three years two houses were in full operation, and three others were being erected. In those days, however, there were no means of sending glass to London except by the collier sailing ships - a circumstance which ?eatly tended to cripple the trade. But Mr. Hartley's active brain was ever fertile in expedients for the removal of obstacles to success, and he in a measure surmounted these transport difficulties by having a vessel specially built for carrying glass to the Metropolis, which was kept going till the opening
of the railway traffic. Merchants and business men can now rush to London by a midnight train, sleep on the road comfortably in a Pullman car, transact what they have to do, and return to Sunderland within four-and-twenty hours. But that was a physical impossibility in those early days, when the single journey by stage coach occupied two days and two nights. For several years after his settlement here, Mr. Hartley had to make the journey every six weeks to call upon the glass merchants in the City, and with this experience of slow travelling (then, by the by, deemed fast), it was not the least wonderful that he became one of the most earnest advocates for the extension of railway facilities. The Glass Duty was repealed in the year 1845, and although this was a great boon to the British public, it brought ruin to a number of the manufacturers, many sanguine speculators rushing into the glass trade and erecting twice as many works as there was any need for, so as not only, by reducing prices, to ruin themselves and their dupes in the course of a few years, but to bring into deep waters more legitimate and stable firms, that could only ride over the crisis by the most strenuous exertions.
The losses sustained at this period by Mr. Hartley are said to have nearly swept away the whole of the large amount of money put into the concern. In after years, when referring to this trying time, he would speak playfully to his more particular friends of the number of sovereigns he had brought into the town with him, carrying them all the way from Birmingham in the stage coach, and which had all been melted down in the crucible of the hard times which had succeeded the repeal of the Glass Duty. But his indomitable pluck, his thorough comprehension of his business, and his singularly methodical way of going to work with the general management of his affairs, enabled him in a few years to wrestle through and achieve a position second to none in the trade. Feeling that confidence in himself which is the opposite of self-conceit, he strained every nerve to ensure success. He was often 15 hours per day personally superintending the works, and it was no unusual thing to find him upon the premises up to and beyond "the wee short hour ayont the twal'." In the year 1847, Mr. Hartley became the inventor and patentee of a new kind of roofing glass, now known universally as "Hartley's Patent Rolled Plate." The trade at first refused to patronise this innovation, as they considered it to be, and would not order it, exhibiting in this instance the usual disinclination of people engaged in any particular branch of business, to patronise novelties in their line. But Mr. Hartley was not to be beaten, he advertised his new discovery in "roofing glass" very extensively, both at home and abroad, and in the course of a short time the patent rough plates were to be seen in all directions - in railway stations, conservatories, greenhouses, roofs and every place where light without full transparency is required. The trade was then willing enough to purchase what they found was becoming a leading article throughout the civilised world. The first railway station in England glazed with the new invention was that at Monkwearmouth, and in the erection of the Glass Palace reared in Hyde Park, in 1851, to accommodate the first Great Exhibition, Hartley's Rough Plate was very largely brought into use, and so advertised world-wide. [SEE NOTE AT END OF ARTICLE]
For stained or coloured glass, too, the Wear Glass Works ere long became celebrated, Mr. Hartley having succeeded, after a series of scientifivally conducted experiments, in producing an almost innumerable variety of colours.But after hed had mastered the natural difficulties, others of a more vexatious kind remained.
Finding that he could not get a sufficient number of workmen qualified to do the finer descriptions of work according to his instructions, he brought skilled operators over from the continent, whom he found more easy to manage, but the strangers met with a very cool reception from the conceited old hands, too many of whom were disposed "to put as many spokes in their wheel" as possible, so as to spoil their work. But with patience and perseverance, firmness and urbanity, this misunderstanding was removed in the course of time, and harmony was re-established.
Being the sole manufacturer of the Rough Plate, Mr. Hartley got a good price for the article-nearly three times what it subsequently brought-and by this means he was not only recouped for the capital he had sunk in making crown and sheet glass without a profit, but made a large fortune on which he was enabled, many years before his death ( 31st December 1869), to retire from active work. Besides meeting the brisk demand at home, he found a large and growing market abroad, exporting his finer wares even as far as Japan, to which country a gentleman named Welch went out as a traveller for the firm, and was successful in getting orders.
At a public lecture which he delivered on Glassmaking in 1853, Mr. Hartley stated that his works were even better known in Australia, India, China and the Continent of Europe, and America, than they were in Sunderland.
In spite of tremendous calls which his business undertakings made upon his time, Mr. Hartley always took an active part in public matters in the Borough, and his conduct in connection therewith was always such as to earn the respect of even his bitterest opponents, for everything he did was done in an honourable manner, so that however much people might differ from him in opinion, none had ever any reason to doubt his integrity.
He took a prominent part in the negotiations which preceeded the formation of the River Wear Commission, of which he was one of the most active members, having a leading hand in the acquisition by that body of the South Docks, and showing the greatest interest in the financial schemes of the Commission for dealing with funded debt. His business talent was often called into exercise in London and elswhere to promote the interest of the Port.
In the year 1842, Mr. Hartley was elected by the burgesses of the West Ward as one of their representatives in the Town Council. Nine years afterwards he was elected Mayor, and was re-elected in the following year. In his official capacity of First Magistrate he won the esteem of all parties. In 1853 he was made an Alderman for St Michael's Ward, and was again elected to the Mayoralty in 1862. He had a great deal to do with the promotion of the Sunderland Corporation Act of 1851, which transferred the various public trusts of the town to the Corporation, and he also exerted himself energetically in the same year in the scheme for reconstructing and strengthening the Wearmouth Bridge.
He continued to hold the position of Alderman until 1874, when he resigned his connection with the Corporation, of which he had been one of the most active members for upwards of thirty years. During the time when he first filled the civic chair, the Pensher branch of the North-Eastern Railway was opened, and shortly afterwards he became a director of the company, which position he held up to the time of his death. His influence in that capacity was on many occasions used for the benefit of the town, -the promotion of the extensive scheme of thorough communication, by means of the railway bridge over the Wear, which places Sunderland on an uninterrupted direct line northward and southward, instead of being as formerly only a sort of siding, receiving his warm support.
The first visit of the Channel Fleet occurred during his last mayoral term, and the Admiral in command and the officers were sumptuosly entertained by him to a banquet, followed by a brilliant ball. He also gave a grand ball on the occasion of the Prince of Wale's marriage in 1863.
Mr. Hartley was appointed a Magistrate for the Borough in 1841, by Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, and at the same time there were added Messrs Ralph Carr, Nathan Horn, George Hudson, Philip Laing and John Scott.
Sir Robert Peel was then in office. Six years later Mr. Hartley was appointed a Magistrate for the County, and for some years he was extremely regular in his attendance on the Bench at Houghton-Le-Spring. He sat for nearly 46 years as a Borough Magistrate, and acted as a County Magistrate for over 40 years. He was also a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County, and Chairman of the Bench for the Petty Sessional Division of Sunderland.
Possessed of a not inconsiderable amount of legal knowledge, he combined with it a rare commonsense and a tact, discrimination, and ripeness of judgment that made him one of the best Magistrates the town ever had.
The following amusing incident, which we find in The Alderman, clearly shows the views entertained of his judicial character by those to whom it was of most immediate import:- " A man in his employ who was inordinately fond of drink had gone upon the spree, and neglected his work for several days, and thus caused a number of hands to be laid idle, and a considerable loss to his employer. He was in consequence taken before the Magistrates, and Alderman Hartley happened to be on the Bench at the time.
Being the prosecutor in the case, he rose from his seat and was about to retire from the Bench during the trial, when the prisoner cried out 'Eh, my canny maister, dinnet gan away and leave me in this pickle! What'll aw dee if ye dinnet stop to see us reeted, sir? ' The appeal was effective, and the applicant was leniently dealt with."
In Imperial politics Mr. Hartley was a Conservative, and for upwards of 30 years he exercised great influence in the town as such. In 1845 he was instrumental in inducing Mr. George Hudson, the "Railway King," to contest the Borough, for which that gentleman was afterwards returned as a representative, mainly through the labours of Mr. Hartley and his coadjutors. At the general election 0f 1865, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, one of the old Members, having retired, Mr Hartley and Mr. Candlish, who had long been rivals in the Town Council, were nominated in addition to the sitting Member, Mr. Fenwick.
Mr. Hartley's friends, one of the most active of whom was the late Alderman Williams, proprietor of the Sunderland Times, worked enthusiastically, and the result was that they put in their man as a colleague to Mr. Fenwick by the small majority of 48 over Mr. Candlish, the numbers respectively being:- Fenwick, 1,826; Hartley, 1,355; and Candlish, 1,307.
Mr. Hartley, it may here be said, did not seek the suffrages of the electors as an out-and-out Conservative, but sat as a Liberal-Conservative during the next three years, until the Dissolution in 1868, when he retired from Parliamentary life.
But as long as he lived he supported the Conservative party in the Borough in their futile endeavours to secure a seat in their interest.
When the Education Act came into force in 1871, Mr. Hartley was elected a member of the Sunderland School Board. The progress of education had always been with him a subject of great solicitude. He was in favour of a compulsory system, and would have struck off the register of electors all those who, having it in their power, culpably neglected the education of their children.
As Chairman of the Board much of the hard initiatory labour fell upon his shoulders, and in negotiating for school sites, loans for buildings, arranging registers and other details, he did excellent service.
But after six years labour, involving much time and trouble, he was supplanted in the office for no neglect of duty or decline in personal respect and esteem, on account of its being decided, by a clear majority of the voters, that the Board should consist of gentlemen professing to be unsectarian.
Mr. Hartley, who had been bred and brought up in the Wesleyan Methodist body, of which both his parents were pious members, had become in his later years a staunch Churchman, which of course disqualified him in the eyes of equally staunch Nonconformists. But up to the last he took an active interest in education, and at the time he ceased his connection with the Board, it is said he was considering the advisability of establishing scholarships in connection with the schools, and, to his great credit be it remembered, it was mainly to his efforts that a costly and ill-will-inspiring contest between the Sectarians and the Non-sectarians, so called, was avoided at the re-election of the Board in January, 1866.
As on of the presidents of the Sunderland Infirmary, Mr. Hartley took a vigorous share in the management of that Institution, and by virtue of his office he frequently took the chair at the annual meetings of the Governors. He was a large generous donor to the funds, and took a lively interest in the great extensions and improvements, which took place during his time. He was also instrumental in bringing to the Infirmary the excellent staff of nursing sisters, who contribute so much to the efficiency of the Institution.
The Hartley Memorial Wing will be a standing evidence of the great value of his services in this department.
Mr. Hartley, being a County Justice of the Peace, sat as an ex-officio member of the Sunderland Board of Guardians. Latterly he did not attend with much regularity, having so many other more pressing duties, but he never ceased to manifest a keen interest in the Board, and such help as it was in his power to give was given with all his characteristic willinghood.
The Chancel of Deptford Church, erected in 1841, is lighted by a large and elegant stained glass window, presented by Mr. Hartley, who likewise made the Parish a present of the whole of the glass required for the other windows.
When Bishopwearmouth Parish was divided, he not only assisted Canon Cockin and his friends with advice, but likewise with his purse, particularly in subscribing liberally towards the erection of Christ Church and St. Mark's Church, to which he gave £1,000.
At the same time he did not forget his old friends the Dissenters, but lent and gave money to many congregations when in need of support.
When he finally left the Methodists in 1853 and attached himself to the Established Church, he attended the Parish Church of Bishopwearmouth, then in charge of the Rev. Canon Eden, and he was chosen a member of the Select Vestry, but when, 11 years afterwards, he erected his fine mansion at Ashbrooke, he found it more convenient to worship at Christ Church, in Ryhope Road.
About a month before his death, Mr. Hartley went to Bournemouth for the benefit of his health, which had been slightly deranged for some time, and he stayed there a fortnight.
He then returned to London for the purpose of attending to some business connected with the North-Eastern Railway Company, after which he intended to proceed straight home.
But on the journey townwards he caught cold, and had to remain in London where he stayed at the Langham Hotel. He had been a periodical sufferer from bronchitis. Here congestion of the lungs set in and he got gradually worse, his recovery from the first being pronounced hopeless, and death resulted on the morning of Monday, the 24th of May, 1886.
His remains were brought down to Sunderland for interment, and the funeral took place on Friday, the 28th, in the Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. In accordance with the wish of the family, there was a total absence of display, but this was more than counterbalanced by the thoroughly representative character of the throng that paid the last tribute of respect to the deceased gentleman.
The esteem in which Mr. Hartley was held was not only evidenced by the honours conferred upon him during life but by the appreciative references made at the time of his death to his public services and private worth from the Mayor, Alderman Preston, representing the Corporation; the Chairman of the Wear Commissioners, Mr. James Laing ; Mr. George S. Lawson, on behalf of the lawyers of the town ; Mr. John Kidson, on behalf of the Magistrates ; and by nunerous votes of condolence with the family, as well as by the sympathy which was universally manifested by his fellow-townsmen on the wholly unexpected news of his death being made known.
Mr. Hartley married, in 1837, Annie, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Blenkensopp, of Felling, and left behind him his widow and five children, two sons and three daughters.
[NOTE] "Sunderland Echo", 6th Feb. 1931.
Sir, - Our attention has been called to recent correspondence in your columns with reference to the glass of which the Crystal Palace was constructed.
The original Crystal Palace was erected in Hyde Park for the 1851 exhibition, and the whole of the glass, amounting to 956,194 feet was made and supplied from our works at Smethwick.
Later on, the building was taken down and reconstructed on its present site at Sydenham, for which purpose a further quantity of 756,000 feet of similar glass was again supplied from our factory.
So far as we know, not a single pane of glass made by any other firm was used in the construction of the building.
Messrs. Hartley, of Sunderland, submitted a tender for the 1851 building in their recently patented Rolled Plate Glass, but although the larger panes in which this could be made would have greatly reduced the cost of the framework required, it was considered unsuitable to adopt a glass which had not yet been proved suitable for such purpose.
The forgoing biography of Mr. James Hartley M.P. was taken word for word from a book at the Sunderland Central Library, ???? written by & published in ????, by ?????????. The text of the biography has not been changed in any
Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: Annie BLENKINSOP. James HARTLEY and Annie BLENKINSOP were married in 1837. Children were: Captain James HARTLEY, Annie Blenkinsop HARTLEY, Emma Louisa HARTLEY, John HARTLEY, Thomas Blenkinsop HARTLEY, Maria Jane HARTLEY.
Captain James HARTLEY was born on 19 May 1838. He died on 4 Sep 1908. He served in the military in Northumberland Fusiliers. Parents: James HARTLEY and Annie BLENKINSOP.
Jane Langridge HARTLEY was born on 16 Jan 1805 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was baptized on 27 Jan 1805 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: William PERKS. William PERKS and Jane Langridge HARTLEY were married.
Jno. Jos HARTLEY was born about 1865 in St Helens. In 1881 he was a Lawyers Clerk in St Helens. Parents: Edward HARTLEY and Sarah ??.
John HARTLEY was baptized on 23 Jan 1843 in Bishopwearmouth. He died on 6 Dec 1889. Parents: James HARTLEY and Annie BLENKINSOP.
John HARTLEY was born on 5 Jun 1775 in Hunslet, yorks. He was baptized on 30 Jun 1775 in Hunslet, yorks. He died on 5 Aug 1833 in Birmingham. He was a Glassmaker probably for Dixon's in Dumbarton, Yorkshire, Nailsea, Somerset & Birmingham. He was one of the country's foremost authorities in the production of Crown Glass Parents: Joseph HARTLEY and Elizabeth SKINNER.
Spouse: Margaret Laing STEPHENSON. John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON were married on 21 Apr 1802 in St Peters, Monkwearmouth, durham. Children were: Martha HARTLEY, Jane Langridge HARTLEY, Maria Booth HARTLEY, Mary Ann HARTLEY, James HARTLEY, John HARTLEY, Louisa HARTLEY.
John HARTLEY
was born on 11 Feb 1813 in Dumbarton, Scotland. He was baptized on
26 Feb 1813 in Dumbarton, Scotland. John Hartley, along with one
of his brothers James N. Hartley, established Hartley's Glassworks and Wearglass
Works in Sunderland in 1836/7, the first making glass windows and Wearglass Works
making table ware. At the time Hartleys Glass Works was the more successful of
the two business's and James N. Hartley was granted a patent for a new process
of casting rolled glass which was used and shipped worldwide.
(Today tableware from Wearglass Works is highly collectable. Though the Glassworks closed in 1894, the tradition of glassmaking in Sunderland continued with a new partnership of James Hartley (grandson of James N. Hartley) and Alfred Wood from Birmingham teaming up to form Portobello Lane Works.
Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: Emma THORNEYCROFT. John HARTLEY and Emma THORNEYCROFT were married on 20 Aug 1859. Children were: Rosa Mary HARTLEY, Eleanor Jane HARTLEY, Alice HARTLEY, Rev. John Thorneycroft HARTLEY, Charles Albert HARTLEY, Constance HARTLEY.
John HARTLEY lived Canal Place, Eccleston in St Helens in 1843. He was born in Sep 1843 in St Helens Lancs England. He was baptized on 1 Oct 1843 in St Thomas Eccleston St Helens. In 1881 he was a Time keeper at foundry in St Helens. He lived 55 Lowe St in St Helens in 1881. In 1901 he was a Foreman Sheet Glass Maker in St Helens. He lived in 98 Peter St, St Helens in 1901. Parents: Abraham HARTLEY and Elizabeth BERRY.
Spouse: Elizabeth TICKLE. John HARTLEY and Elizabeth TICKLE were married on 5 Mar 1865 in St Thomas, Eccleston, St Helens. Children were: William HARTLEY, Abraham HARTLEY, Winifred HARTLEY, David HARTLEY, John HARTLEY, Eliza E HARTLEY, Arthur HARTLEY, Harold HARTLEY, Charles HARTLEY, Samuel HARTLEY.
John HARTLEY was born about 1874 in St Helens. He lived 55 Lowe St in St Helens in 1881. In 1901 he was a Glass Maker in St Helens. He lived in 56 Greenfields Rd, St Helens in 1901. He was also known as ?James. Parents: John HARTLEY and Elizabeth TICKLE.
Spouse: Elizabeth PHILLIPS. John HARTLEY and Elizabeth PHILLIPS were married about 1899 in St Helens. Children were: Harold HARTLEY, Frank HARTLEY.
John HARTLEY. Parents: Frank HARTLEY and Anne WILLIAMSON.
Spouse: Myra.
Rev. John Thorneycroft HARTLEY was born in 1849. He died in 1935. Parents: John HARTLEY and Emma THORNEYCROFT.
Spouse: Alice Margaret LASCELLES. Rev. John Thorneycroft HARTLEY and Alice Margaret LASCELLES were married.
Joseph HARTLEY was baptized on 27 Feb 1735 in Hunslet Yorks. He was born about 1735 in Hunslet, yorks. He died on 13 Sep 1794 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Spouse: Elizabeth SKINNER. Joseph HARTLEY and Elizabeth SKINNER were married. Children were: Joseph HARTLEY, Abraham HARTLEY, John HARTLEY, Benjamin HARTLEY.
Joseph HARTLEY was baptized on 19 May 1771 in Hunslet Yorks. He was born about 1771 in ? Scotland bap Hunslet. He lived in Nailsea Somerset in 1821. He lived in Birmingham in 1830. He lived in St Helens, Lancs in 1834. In 1851 he was a Crown Glass Maker in Sunderland, Durham. He lived in Sunderland, Durham in 1851. Hartleys Glass Works was established in Sunderland in 1836/7 and James N. Hartley ( Josephs nephew) was granted a patent for a new process of casting rolled glass which was used and shipped worldwide.
(Today tableware from Wearglass Works is highly collectable. Though the Glassworks closed in 1894, the tradition of glassmaking in Sunderland continued with a new partnership of James Hartley (grandson of James N. Hartley) and Alfred Wood from Birmingham teaming up to form Portobello Lane Works.
The family of Hartleys as a whole seemed to travel between Sunderland and Dumbarton in Scotland, both areas highly active in the Glassmaking industry).
Parents: Joseph HARTLEY and Elizabeth SKINNER.
Spouse: Martha
SIMPSON. Joseph HARTLEY and Martha SIMPSON were married on 21 Apr 1815 in
Dumbarton, Scotland. The family of Hartleys as a whole seemed
to travel between Sunderland and Dumbarton in Scotland, both areas highly active
in the Glassmaking industry).
Children were: Ann HARTLEY, Mary HARTLEY, Margaretta Simpson
HARTLEY, Abraham HARTLEY, Joseph HARTLEY.
Joseph HARTLEY was born about 1823 in Nailsea Somerset. He was baptized on 2 Nov 1823 in Nailsea Somerset. Parents: Joseph HARTLEY and Martha SIMPSON.
Joseph HARTLEY lived Canal Place, Eccleston in St Helens in 1841. He was born on 16 Aug 1841 in St Helens, Lancs. He was baptized on 3 Oct 1841 in St Thomas, Eccleston, St Helens. Parents: Abraham HARTLEY and Elizabeth BERRY.
Louisa HARTLEY was born on 7 Dec 1814 in Nailsea Somerset. She was baptized on 18 Feb 1821 in Nailsea Somerset. Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: John PERKS. John PERKS and Louisa HARTLEY were married on 9 Jun 1837. They were married.
Margaret HARTLEY was baptized on 8 Jun 1730 in Bramley, Yorkshire. She died on 21 Jun 1730. She was born about 1730. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Margaret HARTLEY was born about 1736 in Allerton. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Margaretta Simpson HARTLEY was baptized on 18 Apr 1819 in Holy Trinity,Nailsea Somerset. She was born about 1819 in Nailsea Somerset. Parents: Joseph HARTLEY and Martha SIMPSON.
Maria Booth HARTLEY was born on 8 May 1807 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was baptized on 25 May 1807 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: Charles W DOLL. Charles W DOLL and Maria Booth HARTLEY were married.
Maria Jane HARTLEY. Parents: James HARTLEY and Annie BLENKINSOP.
Spouse: Edwin Allan MALLING.
Martha HARTLEY was born on 26 Apr 1803 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was baptized on 14 May 1803 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Spouse: John Baker CANNINGTON. John Baker CANNINGTON and Martha HARTLEY were married.
Spouse: Thomas CARR. Thomas CARR and Martha HARTLEY were married.
Martha Ellen HARTLEY was born about 1852 in St Helens, Lancs. She was baptized on 27 May 1855 in St Thomas, Eccleston, St Helens. Parents: Abraham HARTLEY and Elizabeth BERRY.
Mary HARTLEY was born about 1734 in Hunslet Yorks. She was baptized on 9 Aug 1734 in Hunslet Yorks. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Mary HARTLEY was born on 30 May 1817 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was baptized. Parents: Joseph HARTLEY and Martha SIMPSON.
Mary Ann HARTLEY was born on 11 May 1809 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was baptized on 11 May 1809 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents: John HARTLEY and Margaret Laing STEPHENSON.
Mary Ann HARTLEY was born about 1857 in St Helens, Lancs. She was baptized on 30 Aug 1857 in St Thoms, Eccleston, St Helens. Parents: Abraham HARTLEY and Elizabeth BERRY.
Philip HARTLEY. Parents: Russell HARTLEY and Margaret.
Rosa Mary HARTLEY was born in 1843. She died in 1928. Parents: John HARTLEY and Emma THORNEYCROFT.
Russell HARTLEY. Parents: Frederick HARTLEY.
Spouse: Margaret. Children were: Philip HARTLEY, Catherine HARTLEY, Elizabeth HARTLEY.
Ruth HARTLEY died on 4 Mar 1738. She was born about 1738 in Hunslet Yorks. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Samuel HARTLEY.2 Parents: John HARTLEY and Elizabeth TICKLE.
Spouse: Edith BARR.
Sarah HARTLEY was born about 1731 in Bramley, Yorkshire. She died on 11 May 1732 in Bramley, Yorkshire. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Sarah HARTLEY was born about 1732 in Hunslet Yorks. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
Sarah Elizabeth HARTLEY. Parents: Edward HARTLEY and Sarah ??.
Thomas Blenkinsop HARTLEY. Parents: James HARTLEY and Annie BLENKINSOP.
William HARTLEY was born about 1744 in Allerton. He died on 9 Sep 1744. Parents: James HARTLEY and Sarah EDDISON.
William HARTLEY was born about 1866 in St Helens Lancs England. He lived 55 Lowe St in St Helens in 1881. In 1901 he was a Plate Glass Workrer in St Helens. Parents: John HARTLEY and Elizabeth TICKLE.
Spouse: Elizabeth ?. William HARTLEY and Elizabeth ? were married about 1892 in St Helens. Children were: Winifred HARTLEY, William HARTLEY, Elizabeth HARTLEY.
William HARTLEY. Parents: William HARTLEY and Elizabeth ?.
Winifred HARTLEY was born about 1869 in St Helens. She lived 55 Lowe St in St Helens in 1881. In 1901 she was a Housemaid domestic in St Helens. She Still at home in 1901. She was also known as Minnie. Parents: John HARTLEY and Elizabeth TICKLE.
Spouse: Jack METCALFE. Jack METCALFE and Winifred HARTLEY were married.
Winifred HARTLEY. Parents: William HARTLEY and Elizabeth ?.
Charlotte HEPTON was born about 1817 in Maidstone, Kent. She is reference number P61.
Spouse: Stephen ROBINSON. Stephen ROBINSON and Charlotte HEPTON were married on 31 Aug 1835 in Bearsted, Kent. Children were: Stephen ROBINSON, John William ROBINSON, Charlotte ROBINSON, Luke ROBINSON, Mary Ann ROBINSON, Jamima ROBINSON.
Margaret HEYTON was born on 1 Jan 1846. She lived 37 Barrow St in St Helens in 1881. She died on 23 Mar 1898 in St Helens. She is reference number P126. She lived 33 Barrow St in St Helens 1872 when married to John.
Spouse: George LUNT. George LUNT and Margaret HEYTON were married between 1876 and 1881.
Spouse: John CUNLIFFE. Children were: Thomas CUNLIFFE, John CUNLIFFE, George CUNLIFFE, Ann CUNLIFFE.
Barry HIGNETT. Parents: Herbert HIGNETT and Dorothy JAEGER.
Spouse: Margaret Vera SHAW. Children were: Paula Margaret HIGNETT.
Spouse: Margaret Vera SHAW.
Charlotte HIGNETT was born in 1879. Parents: William HIGNETT and Sarah.
Emma HIGNETT was born in 1877 in Manchester. Parents: William HIGNETT and Sarah.
Herbert HIGNETT. Parents: John HIGNETT.
Spouse: Dorothy JAEGER. Children were: Barry HIGNETT.
John HIGNETT was born on 1 Apr 1873 in Manchester. Parents: William HIGNETT and Sarah.
Children were: Herbert HIGNETT.
