Friday 9 August 2019

Alfred John Wallin Murch, Cricket Bat Maker

Alfred John Wallin Murch was born in 1861 to John Alfred Undrey Murch and Sarah Emma (Wallin) Murch.

On 3 August 1884, Alfred married Caroline Elizabeth Farmer in Shoreditch. The couple remained in Shoreditch, and had eight children: Alfred 1885, Amy 1886, Ada 1887 (who died aged 2), Frederick 1888, Florence 1890, Albert 1891, Sydney 1893, and Charles 1897.

Alfred was a cricket bat maker in Shoreditch for over twenty years.


ONE SEVENTH SCALE REPLICA OF THE BATS 
TAKEN FROM THE M.C.C COLLECTION AT LORDS CRICKET GROUND


The 1901 census (the final one on which he would appear) shows that he and his family have moved to the middle-class residential area of Wood Green.

Alfred died in 1907 at the comparatively young age of 45.

He features in the Murch Surname Study. For further information including sources and links, see his WikiTree profile.
© 2019 Ros Haywood. All Rights Reserved

Copyright

You may NOT use the contents of this site for commercial purposes without explicit written permission from the author and blog owner. Commercial purposes include blogs with ads and income generating features, and/or blogs or sites using feed content as a replacement for original content. Full content usage is not permitted.

You May Also Be Interested In...