Percival Everitt
Percival Everitt (1856-1893) Engineer and Co-founder of Farmers Foundry Co.
1856 Born the son of Isaac Everitt, a farmer.
1878 Everitt has a patent for a ploughing engine.
1879 With William John Adams established a business as agricultural and general engineers; the business traded as Everitt, Adams and Co.
1880 Patent. 1880, Percival Everitt and William J. Adams, Ryburgh, Norfolk, improvements in machinery for cutting chaff.[1]
1881 Living at Great Ryburgh, Walsingham: Isaac Everitt (age 79 born Caistor), magistrate. With his wife Maria Everitt (age 56) and son Percival Everitt (age 25 born Limpenhoe, Norfolk), Engineer.[2]
1884 Patent. No. 48 of 1884. John Glas Sandeman, Gentleman, and Percival Everitt, Engineer, both of London. England, for improved apparatus for delivering pre-paid goods.[3]
1886 Married in Hudson, New Jersey, USA to Emma Potter
1887 'PERCIVAL EVERITT, Esq., Engineer, 47, Cannon Street, E C.. Director of the Automatic Weighing Machine Co., Lim., and of the Post Card Automatic Supply Co., Lim.'[4]
1891 Living at 17 Holland Street, Kensington: Percival Everitt (age 35 born Limpenhoe, Norfolk), Engineer. With his wife Emma born New York.[5]
1892 Returned voyage to the UK from New York with his wife Emma
1892 Patent 4604. Improvements in breech-loading firearms. Percival Everitt, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London.[6]
1891 February 19th. Died at the Union Square Hotel, New York. Probate to his wife Emma.