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 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 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.

Francis Charles Simpson

From Graces Guide

1847 Born in Boynton, Yorks

1865 entered Cambridge University

One of the early students of engineering at Cambridge, a contemporary of Robert Neville Grenville

1869 B.A.

In a shipbuilding business at Dartmouth

1880 Formation of Simpson and Denison

1881 Francis C. Simpson 34, land agent, lived in Totnes with Maria F. Simpson 37 Francis R.B. Simpson , and a friend Joseph B. Dennison 35, civil engineer[1]

1891 Francis C Simpson 44, engineer, lived in Brixham with Mary A F Simpson 47, Francis R B Simpson 10, Ralph C Simpson 8, Margaret N Simpson 6, Walter A Simpson 5, Esther M W Simpson 1[2]

J.P. for Devon.

1872 Married (1) Marianna Frances Apletre

1901 Francis C Simpson 54, living in Brixham on own means, Marianne F Simpson 57 Francis R B Simpson 20, Margaret N Simpson 16, Esther M W Simpson 11[3]

1911 Francis Charles Simpson 64, retired naval engineer, lived in Brixham with Marian Frances Simpson 67, Walter Antony Simpson 25[4]

1915 Married (2) Minnie Rose Haine

1923 Died.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1881 census
  2. 1891 census
  3. 1901 census
  4. 1911 census
  • Cambridge University Alumni