Robert Lakin
of Parr, Curtis and Madeley, Phoenix Works, Manchester
c1819 Born
1849 Patent granted to Robert Lakin, machinist, Ardwick, and William Henry Rhodes, machinist, Openshaw, for improvements in machinery, and for preparing spiining, doubling and weaving cotton, and other fibrous substances[1]
1861 Living at 81 Hyde Road, Ardwick (age 42 born ?), Manager of Cotton Machine Manufactory. With his wife Elizabeth (age 35 born Ardwick) and their children Madeline (age 15 born Ardwick), Mary J. (age 14 born Ardwick), Charles C. (age 9 born Ardwick), Robert K. (age 7 born Ardwick), Elizabeth F. (age 2 born Ardwick) and Ellen S. (age 1 born Ardwick). One servant. [2]