Along the banks of the Thames at Wapping, the Tobacco Dock when disgorged a vast cargo of rice, wine, spices, furs, brandy, ivory, and animal skins. Adding to the cacophony of noise, had been the hopeless calls of tigers and elephants, imported by Charles Jamrach, his father Jacob and later his son Albert Edward. Charles traded from 1840-1891 but parakeet the business may possibly have dated back to 1791.
Johan Christian Carl (Charles) Jamrach 1815-1891
Charles Jamrach was born in Germany. He moved to England with his father, who also traded in animals in Antwerp. Their enterprise was along Ratcliffe Highway at Wapping. The Jamrachs, father and son had a reputation as traders who would get and sell any animal, as parakeet evinced by the Noah’s Ark of species crowded into their holding shop at Betts Street. Seamen arriving in the port delivered an assortment of monkeys, parrots,and small animals to their door. Larger creatures, elephants, tigers, camels, rhinos, bears arrived in crates to be packed into iron cages.
Jamrach’s Consumers
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