Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Chains at Penarth Dock - Macey, Mules and Wallace Family History . . .

The 1871 census listed William and Hannah Picken from Hull. William was a Customs Officer. Another Salop Street resident and Customs Officer was Thomas W. Mitchell. He lived there with his wife Margaret. There was Michael Keefe (mariner), Jonah Bowen (boatmen), Evan Thomas Morse (ship’s pilot) and Jonathan Richard Angove (railway shunter). By 1900, there were 5 ‘coal trimmers’ in Salop Street, so it was a common occupation. William Heap was a coal weigher. Charles Rowler was a mariner.

Once again, many thanks to Bruce Wallace, [367] a true Penarthian, who now resides in Carmarthen and contributed such a wealth of memories and family research to the Penarth Dock story.

As a final postscript to the Mules family history, I came across the following reference to one William Mules of Penarth within the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1902 published in Washington in the U.S. I wonder if this William Mules is the William Alfred Mules previously referenced? The entry states:

Mules, William, Penarth, England. (name, residence) : Golf Club (invention) : Patent No. - 708,575 : Date - 9 September 1902. [499] [593] [20170809]

"Mr Daniel Mules, Penarth, has the proud distinction of tipping the first wagon of coal into a ship at Penarth Dock." - Penarth Chronicle and District Advertiser [375] [361] 23rd March 1895.