Acquisition of Stange fruitery and florist shop
William had also been known to be a bookmaker taking a keen interest in the nags, especially with his younger brother Robin being of mind and stature to become a jockey.
Stange & Co. at 109 Mostyn Street, Llandudno; Clifford Townley (married to William’s sister Maria), a shop assistant, William Isaiah Rowlands and his younger brother Robin.
Through one or more of these predicaments, it made it possible for William to acquire the interest in the Fruiterer and Florist business known as ‘Stange & Co.’ in Mostyn street, Llandudno. He and his brother had been working as a fruiterer prior to that and is likely that they were working in Stange’s. This must have been quite a turnaround in fortunes for the family, his father Isaiah arriving in Llandudno some years prior from Llangollen as a general labourer and lodging in a local family’s house. Whilst in the area he met his wife Jane and they married and had nine children, their sixth being William.
William (known as Willie) went on to marry Eva Emma Taylor Mould who moved from West Ham in London to Llandudno. They went onto have five children John, William, Mary, James and Ivor. William (known as Bill) and James (known as Jim) followed their father into the business of fruit and flowers and successfully grew the business to include a tobacconist and barbers, a hairdressers and sweet shop.