James Anthony Emslie
1842. Patent. '...purchase by, a company of certain Letters Patent, granted to James Anthony Emslie, of No. 21, Leazes-terrace, in the town and county of Newcastle-on-Tyne, civil engineer, for "certain improvements in the construction and working of railways, and in the application of steam to locomotive purposes;"...'[1]
1845 Insolvent. '...James Anthony Emslie, formerly of No. 21, Leazer-terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, in copartnership with William Martins, as Coke Burners and Ship Brokers, and General Commission Agents, having Offices at No. 33, Quay-side, Newcastle aforesaid, then of No. 10, Essex-street, Strand, Middlesex, then of No. 11, Windsor-terrace, City-road, Middlesex, then of No. 5, Kennington-green, Surrey, then of No. 6, Thistlegrove, Little Chelsea, Middlesex, Civil Engineer, having Offices at No, 5, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, London, then in Lodgings at No. 2, Marine-parade, then of No. 145, Windmill-street, Gravesend, Kent, then of No. 7, Buckingham-street, Strand, then at Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, Civil Engineer, Inventor and Patentee of certain Improvements in Pumps, and in the Construction and Working of Railways, and Application of Steam Locomotive Purposes....'[2]
1847 Insolvent. 'James Anthony Emslie, formerly in Lodgings at No. 7, Buckingham-street, Strand, Middlesex, having Offices in Abingdon-chambers, Westminster, Middlesex, Civil Engineer, afterwards Engineer to the Great Madrid and Lisbon Railway Company, residing at the Hotel de Paris, Calledel Carmen, in Madrid, Spain, then of the Braganza Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal, then of No. 7, Buckingham-street, Strand, Middlesex, then of No. 18, Lambeth-terrace, Lambeth, Surrey, then of No. 25, Leaze's-terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, then of Lambeth-terrace, Lambeth, aforesaid, Civil Engineer, then of Wakefield, and late of Pontefract, both in Yorkshire, Ordnance Surveyor'[3]