Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Edwin Francis Jones

From Graces Guide

Manager of the Ormesby Ironworks of Cochrane and Co

c1825 Born in Bedwelty, Wales

1855 Retired from the management of the blast furnaces

1857 Patent application by Edwin Francis Jones, of Redcar, in the county of York, Engineer, has given the like notice in respect of the invention of "improvements in the manufacturing of pig and bar iron"[1]

1861 Lodging in Cargo Fleet.[2]

1869 Patent application by Edwin Francis Jones, of Middlesbrough-on-Tees, in the county of York, for the invention of "improvements in machinery for making nails, spikes, and like articles." A communication to him from abroad by Frederick Francis Jones, of Gefle, in the Kingdom of Sweden[3]

1870 Patent application by Edwin Francis Jones, of Middlesbrough-on-Tees, in the county of York, in respect of the invention of "improvements in the manufacture of iron."[4]

1871 Edwin F Jones 46, Iron master, lived in Middlesbrough, with Elizabeth Jones, 36, Emily Jones 7, Henry Jones 5, Annie Jones 4, Thomas Mosa Jones 2, Alfred Frances Jones 1[5]

1882 In his presidential address to the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, he provided a review of the development of the Cleveland iron trade from 1853 to date.[6]

1891 Edwin F Jones 66 , iron master, lived in Middlesbrough with Elizabeth Jones 56, Thomas Jones 22, draughtsman, Jenny Jones 17[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 24 Mar 1857
  2. 1861 census
  3. London Gazette 30 July 1869
  4. London Gazette 21 June 1870
  5. 1871 census
  6. The Engineer 1882/12/22
  7. 1891 census