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 167,647 pages of information and 247,065 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.

John Drabble

From Graces Guide

c.1809 Born in Derbyshire

1846 of Clifton Bank. Joined James Yates in the partnership Yates, Haywood and Co.

1848 of Effingham Works, Masburgh[1]

1851 Living in Clifton Bank, Rotherham, master ironfounder, with Emma 36, Edward 9, Emily 11, Mary 7, Lucy 4, Clara 2[2]

1869 Drabble asked to retire. A new partnership was then formed between James Yates, George Haywood, Robert Bentley Shaw (Yates's son-in-law) and George Harris Haywood.

1871 Retired ironfounder, living in Rotherham with Evana Drabble 56, Emily C Drabble 31, Lucy C Drabble 24, Clara C Drabble 22, Arthur C Drabble 16[3]

1881 Widower, annuitant, living in Chapel En Le Frith[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers
  2. 1851 census
  3. 1871 census
  4. 1881 census