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Samuel Pipes

Could this be a photograph of Samuel Pipes 1822–1879?

It is a carte de visite taken in Derby by Wllm End Swift, St Peter's Street.

Samuel Pipes was a freemason,
the Worshipful Master of Hartington Lodge No. 1085
in 1876 ( ie 10 years after the Lodge was formed)

He was married three times: to Mary Ambrose,
with whom he had 3(?) children including George,
Ann Arbon (his cousin), and innkeeper's daughter Sarah Wagstaff Marshall.

He owned a timber yard and steam saw mill in Derby -
Pipes and Yates, between City and Mansfield Roads
and from May 1872 to November 1877 was a
Councillor for Kings Mead Ward
(Dobson Red Book 1880 p203)

Sawmill ad

Ad from Wright's Directory, 1874

City Road

Site of the saw mill on City Road

Sycamore Villa

Sycamore Villa, 131 Uttoxeter New Road, Derby

North Parade

North Parade, where he was about to move to when he died