Middleton Crawford
1860 Born at Wiarton, Ontario
1888 Letters patent granted to Middleton Crawford for a machine for removing lint or fibre from cotton seed.[1]
c1890 Arrived in England as a mining engineer
1890 Applicaion for a patent. Middleton Crawford, engineer of Liverpool. No 153 for 'improvements in the menas for Separation of Particles of Different Specific Weight'.[2]
1891 Living at St. Giles in the Field, London: Middleton Crawford (age 31 born America), a Mining Engieer. With his wife Alice (age 22 born Horncastle, Lancs.). Also visitors John Thomas Crawford (age 36 born America) and Mary M. Wilberforce (age 33 born USA). Also one servant.[3]
1892 Q3 Married at Liverpool to Alice
1896 January 8th. Married at St. Georges, Bloomsbury. Alice Perkins Martin (age 19) the duughter of Arthur R. Martin, a Mining Engineer. Middleton Crawford (age 38) is an Engineer and Widower the son of Samuel Crawford (deceased). Note: This is his second wife and both were called Alice.
1898 Meeting of Creditors. Middleton Crawford and Arthur F. Martin.[4]
1901 Living as a lodger at 129 Broad Street, Coventry, (age 41 born Ontario), an Engineer - Own Account and a Widower.[5]
1901 Formed the Crawford Gear Co
Closely linked with the Brooks Motor Co
Involved with the Priory Motor Co
Post 1903 Formed partnership with Arthur Francis Martin in London and this was dissolved in 1911
Returned to America