Edwin Thomas Ponting
From Graces Guide
Edwin Thomas Ponting (1857-1947)
Born the son of John Ponting, a Pastry Cook,
Inventor and sole manufacturer of Ponting's Ticket Booking Machine. A version designed for pawnbrokers had three pens which worked in unison to write three tickets - one for the pawned object, a receipt for the depositor, and a record for the books.
1881 Married at Camden to Alice Ausell
1903 Married at Stratford to Eliza Deller
1911 Residing at 2 Maybank Crescent, South Woodford: Edwin Thomas Ponting (age 53 born Shoreditch), Maker of Multiple Writing Machine to Pawnbrokers. With his wife Eliza.[1]
1939 Residing at Wanstead, Maker of (?) for Writing (?) Copies at one time. With Lilian.[2]
1947 Died in South Woodford; executor Herbert Ponting, engineer[3]
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