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 167,711 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Thomas Nelson (1807-1890)

From Graces Guide

Thomas Nelson (1808-1890) railway contractor of Carlisle and York

See T. Nelson and Co

1851 Thomas Nelson, builder, age 43 born in Scotland, in Carlisle, with his wife Isabella M S Nelson 33, daughter M L Nelson 10, son T B Nelson 9, James Nelson 7, Eliza Nelson 5, John Nelson 4, Isabella Nelson 7, Ann Nelson 1[1]

Worked on numerous projects in north of England including the Marsden Tunnel

Worked with his sons John Nelson and Thomas Boustead Nelson

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Sources of Information

  1. 1851 census