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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Frederick Holman

From Graces Guide

1842 Born in St Just, son of Nicholas Holman

1857-62 Apprenticed at N. Holman and Sons, St Just

1861 Nicholas Holman 57, master brass and iron founder, head of the firm of N. Holman and Sons, lived in St Just in Penzance, with Annie Holman 55, Mary J Holman 24, Frederick Holman 19, braas and iron founder, Emma Holman 17, Grace H Holman 16[1]

Continued to work for the same firm at St Just and Penzance, concerned with making and erecting mine machinery

1873 Married Emma Dymond in Liskeard[2]

1896 Engineer and ironfounder, became a Member of I Mech E., of N. Holman and Sons, Penzance Foundry, Penzance.

1901 Frederick Holman 59, iron founder and mechanical engineer, employer, lived in Penzance with Emma Holman 56, Frederick William Holman 27, mechanical engineer, employer, Percy Dymond Holman 18, engineering student[3]

1929 Died in Penzance[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1861 census
  2. BMD
  3. 1901 census
  4. National probate calendar
  • Mechanical engineer records