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James Hill Tobacco merchant

29/3/2022

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​On This Day 29th March 1821 James Hill was born. He lived at "The Rookery"

James Hill a tobacco Manufacturer, his wife Jane, a daughter and 7 domestic staff. The Census records a Butler, Cook, Lady's maid, 2 housemaids, a Nurse and a footman. (Source Census 1851)
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Robert and James Hill operated as Tobacco Manufactures from premises in Shoreditch. The Image below is from the Leicestershire Mercury on 30th June 1860 and the Spinet brand of cigarettes 1917
After 6 years of widowhood Jane Adam Hill became the 4th wife of Sir Kingsmill Grove Key,
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