George Colley
Born 1805 (Circa)
Died 25 March 1881
Active: 1841 - 1881
Country of birth and death: England
Stone carver, stonemason
Born in Marlbrook, Herefordshire. He was working in Birmingham around 1841 and sometime before 1851 established a business in London. His son Henry (born c.1839 in Birmingham) was also a carver. By 1871 he was living alone with a married daughter. An apprentice living with Colley in 1851, Arthur Moon, who went on to own the St. Nicholas Stone Works in Guildford, was named as one of his executors.
Wealth at death: £1,194 12s. 0d.
Probate date: 20 June 1881
Works
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Locations
Address Holloway Head Birmingham | View on map
1841 (Circa)
House number not given in the Census Returns of 1841
Address 8 Upper Dorset Street Belgrave Road London | View on map
1851 (Circa) - 1870 (Circa)
Address 2 Shirley Grove Wandsworth London | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Address 3 Brailsford Road Tulse Hill London | View on map
1881
Living here up to this date
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Institutional and Business Connections
May be connected to Thomas Colley and Son
Presume, as both George and Thomas came from Herefordshire, that they were related. However, unable to use census data to corroborate this because both had left Herefordshire before 1841
Personal and Professional Connections
Apprenticed Arthur Moon
1851 (Circa)
Represented by Arthur Moon
1881
Moon was named as one of Colley's executors.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
'S[tone] Mason'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Carver & Mason' his son Henry, aged 19, 'Carver' and Arthur Moon (born c.1835), 'Apprentice to a Mason...'[entry possibly ends 'etc.']
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Architectural Carver'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2004
HO107 piece 1147 folio 6/30 page 2
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
HO107 piece 1479 folio 931 page 32
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 704 folio 45 page 33
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: George Colley
Probate Date: 20 Jun 1881
Death Date: 25 Mar 1881
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: Principal Registry
Post Office London Directory, 1870 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1870
p. 1772
Citing this record
'George Colley', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1206540069, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
