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 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Benjamin Pryor Stockman

From Graces Guide

Civil Engineer

c.1823 Born in Middlesex[1]

1843-47 Apprenticed at the Pimlico Works of Messrs Bramah

1844 Daughter Maria born in Pimlico

1847-49 Assistant engineer on the East Anglian Railway

1848 Daughter Emily born in Bloomsbury

1849-50 Worked for the River Lea Trust

1849 Daughter Constance born in Camden Town

1850-51 Worked on construction of a bridge at St. Haves

1851 Daughter Annie born in Camden Town

1851 Son Benjamin born in St Pancras[2]

Designed machinery for Messrs Napier's and for Messrs H and M D Grissell

1853 Working under G. R. Stephenson

1853 Living in New Cross. Application to join the Institution of Civil Engineers

1855 Birth of son Harry in New Cross[3]

1862 Son Frank born in Wandsworth

1881 Civil engineer, living in Wandsworth with his wife Mary (b.1825) and 5 children[4]

1905 Died

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Sources of Information

  1. 1881 census
  2. 1871 census
  3. 1871 census
  4. 1881 census