Name: Robert Dummett
Born: 15 Nov 1843, Braunton, North Devon

Spouse: Helen Gould, m 14 Feb 1871 Hackney London
  Children (...5 of them...)

Notes:

Sent to London from the West Country (Exmoor?) when aged about
13 or 14. He had been apprenticed to a draper in Bristol, who
sold him on to another drapers in Bishopsgate, London, but lost
the piece of paper with the address on and could not find the
premises. Knocked on the door of a wholesale drapers in the
Shoreditch High Street, Jeremiah Rotherham, a Jewish firm, and was
taken in. Worked for the firm, living in a garret on top of the
shop, eventually becoming a travelling salesman. Met his wife
Helen Gould at a haberdashery in Truro, Cornwall, whilst doing
this work.

Eventually became a partner in the business, and then the
owner. Made a lot of money (¹.25m) from this and investing on the
Stock Exchange, where he also lost it.

Rescued his father from the workhouse.

Died before 1925

Marriage certificate shows him as 'mercantile clerk, mantle
manufacturer' at 1871
Birth certificate of eldest son shows him as woollen draper at
1873
Eldest son's marriage certificate has him as drapers
warehouseman in 1895