Edward Crompton
Inventor of the Cochran boiler, of Cochran and Co
c.1845 Born in London, son of Charles Crompton
1851 Living with his mother, Caroline Crompton 45, and siblings in Tottenham Court, London[1]
1861 Sir Charles Crompton 63, judge of the Queen's Bench, lived in Kensington with Caroline Crompton 55, Charles Crompton 28, Emily Crompton 21, Albert Crompton 17, Edward Crompton 16, student[2]
1872 A civil engineer, when he married Agnes Mary Berry in Paddington; his father was a judge[3]
Worked for Alfred Booth and Co, then with James Taylor Cochran co-founded Cochran and Co in Birkenhead in 1878.
1878 Patent to Edward Crompton, of Liverpool, and James Taylor Cochran, of Birkenhead, in the county of Chester, in respect of the invention of "improvements in and relating to steam boilers."[4]
1881 Edward Crompton 36, engineer, boiler maker, master, lived in Birkenhead with Agnes M. Crompton 35, Caroline A. Crompton 7, Charles E. Crompton 5, Beatrice Crompton 1[5]
1891 Edward Crompton 46, boiler maker, builder of small vessels, lived in Birkenhead with Agnes M Crompton 45, Charles E Crompton 15, Beatrice Crompton 11, Rosalind Crompton 8[6]
1900 Agnes died in Carlisle[7]
1901 At the time of the census, Edward Crompton 56, civil engineer, employer and Beatrice Crompton 21 were visiting Elizabeth Miller in Cumberland[8]
1911 Edward Crompton 66, retired manufacturing engineer, lived in Epping with Rosalind Crompton 28[9]
1915 Died in Liverpool[10]