Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Andrew Forbes

From Graces Guide

Andrew Forbes of the Forgrove Machinery Co

Probable person - Andrew Forbes was born July 17, 1843, in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales to Roderick Forbes and Jessy Mabon Forbes. He married Mary Ann Kelly on June 21, 1863, in West Derby, Lancashire, England. They had eight children in 18 years. He was a Commercial Traveller and Tea-Taster. He died on February 17, 1902, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, at the age of 58.

1891 Living at Providence Avenue, Leeds: Andrew Forbes (age 47 born Ruabon), Traveller. With his wife Mary Ann and their three daughter and two sons and his widowed mother.[1]

1901 Living at Leeds, Tea Traveller.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1891 Census
  2. 1901 Census