Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Robert Owen White

From Graces Guide

of J. B. White and Sons

c.1824 Born son of John Bazley White

1848 A merchant when he married Caroline Brewer in Lambeth[1]

1851 Robert O White 27, cement manufacturer, lived in Swanscombe with Caroline White 25, Emily E White 1, Oliver W White 3 Months[2]

1876 Patent to Robert Owen White and John Bazley White, junior, both of Swanscombe, in the county of Kent, in respect of the invention of "improvements in the manufacture of Portland cement."[3]

1881 Robert White 57, Retired Cement Merchant, lived in Lewisham with Caroline White 55 Lucy White 22, Percy White 19[4]

1892 Died in Middlesex

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Sources of Information

  1. Parish records
  2. 1851 census
  3. London Gazette 5 Dec 1876
  4. 1881 census