Edwin Thomas Ponting
Edwin Thomas Ponting (1857-1947)
Born the son of John Ponting, a Pastry Cook,
Inventor and sole manufacturer of Ponting's Ticket Booking Machine. A version designed for pawnbrokers had three pens which worked in unison to write three tickets - one for the pawned object, a receipt for the depositor, and a record for the books.
1881 A pawnbroker's assistant when he married Alice Ausell at Camden[1]
1893 of Devonshire Road, Holloway, patent on "A Multiple Writing Machine for Pawnbrokers' Tickets and Books."
1903 Married at Stratford to Eliza Deller
1910 of South Woodford, manufacturer, patented "Improvements in Pawnbrokers Multiple Writing Machines"
1911 Residing at 2 Maybank Crescent, South Woodford: Edwin Thomas Ponting (age 53 born Shoreditch), Maker of Multiple Writing Machine to Pawnbrokers. With his wife Eliza.[2]
1939 Residing at Wanstead, Maker of Writing device for writing letters in many (?) Copies at one time. With Lilian.[3]
1947 Died in South Woodford; executor Herbert Ponting, engineer[4]