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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Cornelius Whitehouse (1825-1899)

From Graces Guide

c.1825 Born in Wedges Mills, Staffordshire

1868 Patent to Cornelius Whitehouse, of Bridgtown, near Cannock, Edge Tool and Auger Maker, in the employ of William Gilpin, Senior, and Company, of Wedgesmills and Churchbridge, Cannock in respect of the invention of "improvements in mill bills and picks for dressing mill stones, and for dressing stone for other purposes."[1]

1881 Edgetool Manufacturer Employs 20 Men 6 Boys, lived in Cannock with Emma Whitehouse 54[2]

1891 Edgetool Manufacturer, lived in Cannock with Emma Whitehouse 64[3]

1899 Died in Cannock age 74[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 27 October 1868
  2. 1881 census
  3. 1891 census
  4. BMD