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 167,689 pages of information and 247,075 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.

Gilbert Rigby Leah

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Gilbert Rigby Leah (c1845-1900) of Goodlass, Wall and Co

c1845 Born in Everton, Liverpool, the son of John Leah, Commission Agent, and his wife Eliza

1866 Bankrupt. 'Thomas Woolf and Gilbert Rigby Leah, of Midland Works, Moseley-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Fire Proof Safe Manufacturers and Iron Bedstead Manufacturers, Dealers and Copartners, having been adjudged bankrupts...'[1]

1887 Married Ann Eliza McClellan

1891 Living at Sau Saladdor, Peckett Road, Liscard, Cheshire: [Gilbert Rigby Leah|Gilbert R. Leah]] (age 45 born Everton, Lancashire), Paint Manufacturer - Employer. With his wife Ann E. Leah (age 42 born Liverpool). One servant.[2]

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