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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Walter Brown Harvey Drayson

From Graces Guide

1852 Born in Framfield, Sussex,[1] son of Frederick Drayson, civil engineer, and his wife Frances[2]

1861 With his widowed mother and siblings in the house of his grandmother in Lincoln[3]

1881 An engineer, living with his mother in Chislehurst, Kent; nearby was living William Tyler 29, brassfounder[4]

1884 Engineer, of Hyde Park, London, married Helen George in Bradford[5]

1890 Partner in J. Tylor and Sons at the time it became a limited company

1891 Walter B H Drayson 39, sanitary engineer and brass founder, employer, lived in Barnet with Helen Drayson 31, Walter F Drayson 4, Donald Drayson 3, George Drayson 1 month[6]

1911 Walter Brown Harvey Drayson 59, mechanical engineer, employer, lived in Stevenage, with Helen Drayson 51, Donald Drayson 23, engineering student, George Drayson 20, engineering pupil , Helen Drayson 18[7]

1922 Died in Fowey[8]

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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  2. 1851 census
  3. 1861 census
  4. 1881 census
  5. BMD
  6. 1891 census
  7. 1911 census
  8. BMD