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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Lewis John Murray

From Graces Guide

c.1844 Born in Islington, London, son of Frederick Murray, watch manufacturer

1863 A clerk when he married Flora Anne Rochfort in Hillingdon[1]

1871 A clerk, lived in Yiewsley, Middx, with his mother-in-law, Ann Rochfort 58, and Flora A Murray 28, Emma Murray 19[2]

1881 Glass works manager, lived in Stourbridge with Flora Anne Murray 38[3]

At some point after this he moved to Birmingham to take charge of the John Walsh Walsh glass factory.

1901 Glass manufacturer, widower, lived in Birmingham with his sister and nephew[4]

1912 of Vesta House, Lodge Road, Birmingham; died in Worthing[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Marriage register
  2. 1871 census
  3. 1881 census
  4. 1901 census
  5. BMD