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During its entire history, but most noticeably in the earlydays, the Sun was served by families – people withprinters’ ink in their veins. Many jobs were filled by wordof mouth or through family connections, and many Sun people mettheir future spouse at work, making the involvement of familieseven more pronounced.

It would be no exaggeration to say that, in the early days,the majority of Sun employees could have named at least one closefamily member who was also working for the company, or had done.And some could count many. So this part of the web site isdedicated to the family connection that often served Sun sowell.

If you know of a family that might be suitable forhighlighting in this section – whether yours or someoneelse’s – please get in touch with us.


The Farrell Family

It is appropriate that the Farrell family be the first onefeatured in this section of the Sun web site, because theFarrells were associated with the Sun almost from the beginning,and in Watford, literally from the beginning. Tom Farrell workedfor Menpes Press on Whippendell Road before the Watford workswere taken over by the Sun Engraving Company.

Thomas Joseph O’Farrell was born in the Irish seasidetown of Dun Laoghaire (then Jamestown) in 1863. It is not knownwhen he moved to London [Bethnal Green], or when he dropped theO’ from his name (although he was fond ofsaying that it was because he had never ‘owed’ anyoneanything in his life). At one time he is thought to have beenemployed as a butler. Later, he worked in London for bothAndré & Sleigh and Menpes Press (whose London officewas at Craven House, Kingsway, W.C.2).

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Thomas had married Emily Woodhouse (or Woodham), but Emilydied after they had had four children. Jane Barnes had marriedJohn Stedman, but John died after they, too, had had fourchildren. In 1900, Thomas Farrell married Jane Stedman, andtogether they had another seven children, making a total offifteen when all half-brothers and half-sisters are counted in.Thomas and Jane were nos. 1 and 2 on the electoral rolls inWatford in the 1920s.

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Some time before 1913, Thomas Farrell was asked to move toWatford as factory caretaker, and was offered one of twosemi-detached cottages located on the Menpes factory grounds, onthe north side of the unsurfaced cart-track that ran from thesouth end of Whippendell road in a roughly easterly direction,parallel with the river. He protested that for such a largefamily one cottage would not be enough, so he was given both, andthe two sculleries at the rear of the cottages were knocked intoone to allow passage from cottage to cottage.

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The cottages had no postal address, so Thomas decided to namethe track on which they stood. He called it Ascot Road becausethe charabancs going to the Ascot races passed by the end of theroad to cross Cassio Bridge. He made his own road sign, and thechildren all watched as he painted the ‘S’ the wrongway round. They explained what was wrong, but he wouldn’t betold, and it stayed that way for years. The street is still namedAscot Road today.

Tom Farrell was very smart and military-looking, and hebrooked no nonsense from anyone. As caretaker and generalfactotum, he was very reliable and was highly esteemed by hisemployer. He was strict with his family and fearless inperforming his duties at Sun, whether this entailed keepinggypsies off the factory grounds or preventing young relatives ofthe owners from making unscheduled use of the tennis courts, forwhich Tom held the key. Jack Garratt, who grew up on WhippendellRoad (and joined the Sun much later), remembers Thomas Farrell as“tall, with a white moustache ... like an ex-guardsman; [hewas] a very officious gateman, a real tyrant.”

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Tom’s granddaughter, Shirley Childs, recalls: “TheSun Engraving Company was such a large part of the life of theFarrell family that I’m sure my granddad thought he was theSun Engraving Company!” She also tells how he liked thedrink: “It was an Irish weakness. The nearest pub was TheHalf-Way House alongside the canal, close by Cassio Bridge. Hefrequented that, and the family would have been much better offhad he not.” Sometimes, after an evening in The Half-WayHouse, Tom wished to continue drinking at home: “... but hewas too smartly dressed to carry a jug of beer, and when my dad[George Farrell] was a little boy he would be sent to the pubwith a jug to fetch beer for his dad.”

Jane Farrell, Tom’s wife, was employed at Sun Engravingafter the war: among other things she cleaned the offices in theevenings.

In 1930, when Thomas Farrell was 67 years old, his wife Janedied (she was only 57). All the children had left home by thenexcept for George (aged 18) and Margaret (aged 16), and Thomaswas eventually asked to vacate the cottages, because SunEngraving needed the space; the firm installed a baling machinethere once the Farrells had moved out. While George and Margaretwent to live with other relatives, Thomas moved in with hisdaughter Lizzie (Mrs George Green) on Maud Crescent in NorthWatford; he also lived at his son Charlie’s house on DellRd. He now had to travel by bus to get to Whippendell Road, wherepreviously he had lived virtually on the premises. He was stillworking for Sun at the age of 72 when he got soaked in a heavydownpour while waiting for his bus one day, and caught a chill.The chill turned to pneumonia, and Thomas Farrell died inDecember 1935.

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Of the fifteen children and stepchildren of Thomas and JaneFarrell, eleven worked for Menpes Press or Sun Engraving, somebriefly and some for many years. On the Farrell family tree weshow those people in bold. In subsequent generations we also showthose who married into the Farrell family and were employed bySun, but we do not extend any branch beyond the last Sun employeein that branch.

Thomas Farrell and his first wife had four children, three ofwhom worked at Menpes before the First World War: Elizabeth(whose job we don’t know); Thomas W. [Tom Jr] (who workedas a clerk); and Bernard M. (who worked briefly at Menpes beforethe war, and died during the war). Both Thomas and Bernard servedin the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and Thomas isbelieved to have returned to Menpes/Sun Engraving after the warfor a year or two before joining the Indian Army. Bernard waskilled in action on August 16, 1917, and Menpes Director FredStaley sent Thomas a letter of condolence on behalf of thecompany.

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Jane Stedman and her husband had four children, two of whomworked at Menpes before the First World War: Annie (who was aforewoman) and Mabel (whose job we don’t know); Annieprobably met her husband, Frank Willoughby, at the Sun, where heworked until 1938. Jane was pregnant with twins when her husbanddied. The twins (Jenny and John) were sent to a DrBarnardo’s Home, and do not appear in any of the familyphotos.

Thomas and Jane had seven children of their own, five of whomworked for Sun Engraving: Kathleen and Winifred (both of whom arethought to have worked as forewomen); Reginald (who was apprenticed at Sun and became a compositor,eventually transferring to Odhams); George (who was apprenticedat Sun as a gravure minder and worked there until 1938, when hetransferred to Odhams); and Margaret (whose job we don’tknow). Kathleen married W.J. (Bill) Hart, a Rembrandt employee;Winifred married Alf Stockman, who became a Sun warehouseforeman; George married Phyllis Pratt, whom he met at Sun and whoworked in the warehouse; and Margaret married Sun electrician LenHills.

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In the third generation, Kathleen (Farrell) and BillHart’s son, Michael, was apprenticed at Sun Printers(carbon printing); two daughters of Charles Farrell and Kathleen(Kendal), Pat and Mary, both worked in Sun’s offices for ayear or so; of the two daughters of Annie (Farrell) and FrankWilloughby, Joan worked for Sun (job not known to us) and Joyceworked in the Sun warehouse; the daughter of George Farrell andPhyllis (Pratt), Shirley, married Michael Childs, who wasapprenticed at Sun in 1952 (colour carbon process); and Margaret(Farrell) and Len Hill’s second daughter, Jean, also wentto work at Sun.

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With special thanks to Thomas Farrell’s granddaughters Shirley Childs and Pat Skeates for supplying us with this – and much other – material.

Please refer to the Reminiscences page of the web site forGeorge Farrell’s recollections of printing IrishSweepstakes tickets at Sun Engraving and of helping his fatherat the Sun on weekends.


The Davis Family

Over the years many articles appeared in the Sun's house magazines extolling the virtues of the Davis family. The Davises are a much smaller group than the Farrells (see above) but, as this article shows, they served the Sun (and, in the case of Jim Davis, also served, first, Geo. W. Jones, and, second, Menpes Printing and Engraving) for a total of more than 352 man years, an average of 35 years for each of the ten family members. See the Davis family tree.

Davis Family Tree

Jim Davis was apprenticed as a letterpress machine minder at Geo. W. Jones in 1888 - the earliest known date of any Sun employee, and apparently even before GWJ was incorporated. He moved to Watford when GWJ (by now owned by Debenhams, the London department store) built its new plant on Whippendell Road in 1906 at a cost of £14,000. Jones sold his interest to Mortimer Menpes in 1908, so Jim now found himself working for the Menpes Printing and Engraving Co., where he was still working after the First World War, when Edward Hunter purchased Menpes and its plant (1919) and consolidated his diverse printing and engraving operations as The Sun Engraving Co. By the time Jim Davis retired, towards the end of the Second World War, he had put in 55 years of service.

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Jim and his wife had five children: Leslie, Vernon, Kenneth, Maurice, and Nora. All five worked at the Sun (see family tree); Leslie in Planning (49 years' service), Vernon in Monotype Keyboard (49 years), Kenneth in Process (45 years), Maurice in Letterpress Machines like his father (51 years), and Nora in the Warehouse (31 years).

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Leslie had two daughters, both of whom worked at the Sun: Betty (who married Dick Challoner of Security) worked in the Warehouse for 8 years; and Sylvia worked in various administrative postings, also for 8 years. Maurice had two sons: Colin, who served 20+ years in the Sun's Studio; and Roy, who worked in Engraving for 38 years, having started an apprenticeship at the Sun in 1950. His apprenticeship indenture is reproduced below. Nora married Jack Simons of Gravure Machines in 1955.

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In later years there was some inter-company rivalry between the Sun and Hazell, Watson & Viney, to declare the family with the longest total service. One Hazells family, the Collingses, was touted in Sun News in late 1963 as a competitor for the Davises, and the Collingses were in fact ahead at that time. The challenge was issued to the entire BPC group, but no definitive rules were specified. We do not know the outcome, but it seems likely that the Davises eventually won.

We are most grateful to Marian Everly and Marie Davis for their contributions to this piece about the Davis family. We also referred to Sun News of December, 1963, and Sunews of June, 1974.

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