Thomas Massey
Engineer of 4 Birchin Lane, London (1857)
c.1805/8 Thomas Massey was born in Henley.[1]
c.1838 Birth of Thomas Massey, junior, in Clerkenwell, a great-nephew of Edward Massey
1839 Dissolution of the Partnership between Thomas Massey and James Windham as Watch and Chronometer-Makers and Dealers in Massey's Patent Logs and Sounding Machines, carried on at No. 4, Birchin-lane, London[2]
1840 Chronometer maker and perpetual log and sounding machine maker, of 78 Cornill, 4 Birchin Lane & Wilmington Sq.[3]
1841 Thomas Massey 35, watchmaker, lived in Clerkenwell with Christianna Massey 35, Thomas Massey 3, Christianna Massey 2[4]
1845 Thomas Massey of 4, Birchin-lane [5]
1851 Thomas Massey 46, watchmaker, lived in Camberwell with Thomas Massey 12, Ralph Massey 9, Christianna Massey 6[6]
1857 Thomas Massey and others made a case in law against John Edward Massey and others, all persons claiming to be creditors of Edward Massey, late of No. 17, Chadwell-street, Myddleton-square, in the county of Middlesex, Watch Manufacturer, who died in or about the month of May, 1852[7]
1857 Patent to Thomas Massey, of 4, Birchin-lane, and Thomas Savage, of Pentonville, to improve the apparatus known as Massey's patent log, which consists of a train of toothed wheels contained in a core, and receiving motion from a screw mounted on an axis projecting through the case[8]
1857 Patent to Thomas Massey, of 4, Birchin-lane, and Thomas Savage, of Pentonville, an improvement in "Massey's patent sounding machines" which has screws or flies, so arranged that when the apparatus descends through the water they rotate and give motion to a train of wheels, by which the number of revolutions of the fly, and consequently the depth it sinks, are recorded.[9]
1857 Patent granted to Thomas Massey and Thomas Savage for an improved means of taking soundings[10]
1860 Patent to Thomas Massey, of 4, Birchin-lane, in the city of London, in respect of the invention of " improvements in sounding machines."[11]
1861 Thomas Massey, 58, log-maker, lived in Birch Lane, Cornhill with Ralph Massey 19, log-maker, Christiana Massey 16[12]
1868 Thomas Massey, gentleman, of Camberwell, died[13]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1851/1861 census
- ↑ London gazette 13 Sept 1839
- ↑ 1840 Robson London Directory
- ↑ 1841 census
- ↑ 1845 Post Office London Directory
- ↑ 1851 census
- ↑ London Gazette 8 May 1857
- ↑ The Engineer 1858/05/21
- ↑ The Engineer 1858/05/28
- ↑ The Engineer 1861/08/02
- ↑ London Gazette 16 April 1861
- ↑ 1861 census
- ↑ National probate calendar