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 164,965 pages of information and 246,442 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.

Edmund Pontifex

From Graces Guide

Presumably of Farringdon Works, Shoe Lane, London

1791 Edmund Pontifex, son of William Pontifex and his wife Mary, was born in Shoe Lane, in the parish of St Andrews, London[1]

1820 Married Sarah Marshall of Godalming

1828 Birth of son Edmund Alfred Pontifex

1830 Death of Sarah

1841 A merchant, living in Charlton next Woolwich with his daughters Sarah and Helen, 15[2]

1851 Edmund, widower, a merchant and manufacturer in metals and chemicals, was living with his daughter Sarah Pontifex, 28, and son Edmund Alfred Pontifex, age 23, in Plumstead[3]

1858 Married Elizabeth Goodman in Edinburgh[4]

1861 A...proprietor, living in Weston, near Bath, with his wife Elizabeth 45, daughter Helen 14, son Arthur 7, Dudley D 6, Septimus 4, Emily M 1. [5]

1870 Died at Weston[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. Non-conformist register
  2. 1841
  3. 1851 census
  4. Marriage Record
  5. 1861 census
  6. National Probate Calendars
  • Burke's Family Records