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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

William James Adams

From Graces Guide

William James Adams (1807-1873), publisher of Fleet street - W. J. Adams and Sons

Publisher of Bradshaw's Railway Guide

Born at Westminster the son of Thomas and Susanna Adams

1831 Married at Poplar to Sarah Hoole

1831 Birth of son Henry John Adams

1844 Birth of daughter Katherine Sarah

1846 Birth of son William Robert Adams

1851 Residing at 17 Grosvenor Park North, Newington; William James Adams (age 41 born St. James), Publisher and Bookseller. With his wife Sarah and three children.[1]

1856 Freeman of the City of London

1871 Residing at 59 Fleet Street London; William Adams (age 62 born Westminster), Publisher. With his wife Sarah and son William Robert Adams.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1851 census
  2. 1871 Census