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WD & HO Wills

  • 29-07-2014 10:08am
    #1
    Phenix
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭


    hi,
    does anyone know if its possible to get employee records for the Player Wills tobacco company which opened here in approx. 1923? I have family which moved here from UK to work there but I cant find them on the UK census/Irish census/immigration records...nothing.


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  • #2
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Deirdre Healy
    Corporate Affairs Manager
    Direct tel: +353 1 243 4809
    Mob: +353 8629 95609
    Email: deirdre.healy@ie.imptob.com


    The only local contact that I could find.


  • #3
    Coolnabacky1873
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Coolnabacky1873


    Bristol Record Office has records for the company. That could be good place to start.

    http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/dserve/useful_information.html


  • #4
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,614 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I'm confused by your title.

    Have you been into Pearse St library to look at electoral registers for the 1920s? It's searchable on a computer and might give you an address to go on.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #5
    Phenix
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Phenix


    great, thanks for the info Ponster & Coolnabacky1873

    hi pinkypinky WD & HO Wills were a British tobacco company that came here around 1920 and opened a factory called Player Wills. a lot of my family and people in the area I grew up in worked for this company and my grandmothers family came over from the UK when she was young as her father worked for them.
    im veerrry new to my family search so am a bit lost at the moment - sorry for the confusion.

    thanks
    Phenix


  • #6
    johnny_doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭johnny_doyle


    don't know if this timeline is of interest

    http://www.davenapier.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wills/wdhowill.htm

    The Wills family were one of the big families in Swindon where I now live and were heavily involved in Swindon Town Football Club until recently.


    There is an online version of a book called "W.D. & H.O. Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry: 1786-1965" by B.W.E Alford which may be of interest. Dublin gets a mention - producing 635million cigarettes in the first year of operation. The management at the Dublin factory reported to the Bristol office.


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  • #7
    Phenix
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Phenix


    thank you so much for the response Johnny Doyle


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