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Charles Wetherell Wardle

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Charles Wetherell Wardle (c1820-1888) of Manning, Wardle and Co of Leeds

c1820 Born at Rothwell, Yorkshire

1856 of the Railway Foundry, Leeds

1861 Living at 2 Park Square, Leeds (age 41 born Rothwell, Yorkshire), Engineer. With wife Anne Elizabeth (age 45 born Beeston) and children Adelaide Eliza (age 18), Alice Mary (age 16), Fanny Maria (age 15), Clara (age 12), Edwin (age 11), Harriet Emily (age 8). Also Maria Jane Leather (age 43 born Gildersome), his sister. One servant. [1]

1861 Reads paper at Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the application of the Giffard's injectoras an elevator for the drainage of pit workings [2]

1861 His daughter Adelaide Eliza marries Charles Horace Sanderson. He is C.E. (Civil Engineer) [3]

1872 At trial of Fell Railway at Whitby [4]

1881 Living at Linton Springs, Yorkshire (age 66 both Rothwell), J.P. Locomotive Engine Builder 390 Workmen. With wife Ann Eliza (age 60 born Beeston Park) and son Edwin (age 31), Locomotive Engine Builder and Alica Maud Sanderson (age 16), his granddaughter. Also two visitors and eight servants. [5]

1888 July 3rd. Died aged 67. [6]

1888 Will Mentions widow Anne Eliza, daughters Alice Mary Piccoli, Adelaide Eliza Sanderson, Fanny Maria Smith, Clara Richardson, Harriet Emily Wardle and his son Edwin. [7]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1861 Census
  2. Birmingham Daily Post, Thursday, November 14, 1861
  3. The Bradford Observer, Thursday, April 24, 1862
  4. The Leeds Mercury, Saturday, June 22, 1872
  5. 1881 Census
  6. The York Herald, Thursday, July 05, 1888
  7. The Morning Post, Friday, October 19, 1888