Carl Heinrich Roeckner
of 4 Royal Arcade, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1878), contractor for paper mills and inventor.
c.1824 Born in Prussia
c.1860 Mr Roeckner promoted a company, and took over the Hurstbourne Mill at Whitchurch which was fitted out by Mr. James A. Lee with machinery for making wood pulp using his patented process. He later wrote to The Engineer pointing out that this had been done.[1]
1878 Elected Associate member of I Mech E
1882 of Tynemouth; contractor and patentee of paper mill machinery; naturalised as a British citizen together with this children Frank Lionel Roeckner, Ramsey Lewellyn Roeckner, Eveline Mary Roeckner, Alexander Adam Roeckner.
1885 Patent on strainers for paper pulp by Carl Heinrich Roeckner and Frank Lionel Roeckner
1891 Carl H Roeckner 67, contractor for paper mills, employer, lived in Kensington, with Johanna Roeckner 60, Anna Roeckner 32, Ramsey L Roeckner 25, agent for paper mills, Alexander Roeckner 16, apprentice for paper mills[2]
1892 Patent on improvements relating to the 1885 patent; by Frank Lionel Roeckner and Ramsey Llewellyn Roeckner.
1896 Died in Berlin[3]