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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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George Parkes Wall

From Graces Guide

Steel manufacturer

1833 Born[1] in Newcastle upon Tyne

1851 Surgeon's pupil in Brightside Bierlow, 18, son of George Wall, 64, sugar refinder, Susan Wall 57, Jane Wall 24[2]

1866 The partnership of Robert Hadfield, Jabez Shipman and George Parkes Wall trading as Hadfield, Shipman and Co was dissolved; the business was carried on by Shipman and Walls as J. Shipman and Co[3]

1871 Living in Sheffield, steel manufacturer, with Caroline Wall 35, Reginald Wall 2[4]

1879 Formation of G. P. Wall, steel stockholders

1912 Death of George Parkes Wall, of Collegiate Crescent and Magneto Works, Sheffield

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Sources of Information

  1. Select Derbyshire Parish records
  2. 1851 census
  3. London Gazette, 17 August 1866
  4. 1871 census