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 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 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.

William Smith (of Clerkenwell)

From Graces Guide

1822 Born in Old Ford, Bow, London son of John Smith and Mary Garland (nee Foster)[1] [2]

1851 Living with his brother John Lancelot Smith, clock manufacturer of the firm Smith and Sons, in Clerkenwell, and his wife Sophia Smith 32[3]

1861 Clock maker, living in Clerkenwell with his wife Catherine, 38[4]

1871 Clock maker, living in Hornsey, with Catherine Smith 47, Catherine M Smith 8, W J Lancelot Smith 7, S Elizabeth Smith 7 and his mother Mary G Smith 84, and his niece Mary Dawes 18[5]

1881 Metal merchant, living in Hornsey, with Catherine Smith 57, Catherine Mary Smith 18, Wm. Jno. Lancelot Smith 17, Sophie Elizth. Smith 17 and his mother Mary Garland Smith 94[6]

1901 Clock manufacturer, employer, living in Hornsey, with Catherine Smith 76, Catherine My Smith 38, William Jno C Smith 37, metal merchant[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers
  2. 1901 census
  3. 1851 census
  4. 1861 census
  5. 1871 census
  6. 1881 census
  7. 1901 census