Edward Massey
Edward Massey (1768-1852), chronometer maker and developer of the ship's-log.
1768 Born in Newcastle under Lyme, son of Edward Massey[1]
1790 Made a freeman of Newcastle.
1790 A clockmaker when he married Jane Roulstone in Stoke on Trent[2]
1796 Birth of son John
1797 Birth of daughter, Ann
1799 Birth of son James
1800 Birth of daughter, Jane
c1801 Birth of son Francis Joseph
1802 Massey had invented the first commercially successful nautical sounding device which he patented in 1802[3]
1802 Birth of son Thomas
1803 Awarded 20 guineas by the Society of Arts, for the design of a clock striking train which did not use a fly.
1805[4] Birth of sons Edmund and Michael.
1806 Working in Newcastle, manufacturing mechanical logs and sounders of his own design.
1813 Following the death of his father, moved to Ironmonger Row, Cross Cheaping, Coventry.
1821 Edward Massey, late of the City of Coventry, but now of Eccleston, in the County of Lancaster, Watch-Maker had been subject to a bankruptcy order for which he had fulfilled the legal requirements for its discharge[5]
1825 He had opened a manufactory at Clerkenwell.
1840 E. Massey watchmaker, of 28 King Street, Clerkenwell[6]
1840 E. P. Massey, watch manufacturer, of 42 Coleman Street[7]
1841 Edward Massey 70, watchmaker, lived in Clerkenwell with Michael Massey 30, jeweller and Teresa Massey 30[8]
1842 Following trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Massey's chronometer no. 1 was purchased for the Royal Navy for 50 guineas.
1845 Edward Massey senior, watchmaker and patent log sounding machine maker to the Lords of Admiralty, of 28 King Street, Clerkenwell.[9]
1849 The Patent Journal listed Massey's Ship's Log in its 1849 edition[10]
1851 Edward Massey 83, nautical instrument maker lived in Clerkenwell with his daughter-in-law, Susanna Massey 45, pallett maker, and her children Joseph Massey 23, John Massey 20, Lewis Massey 14, Francis Massey 11, Susanna Massey 7, James Massey 9, and her nephew Thomas Massey 13[11]
1852 Died
1857 Thomas Massey and others made a case in law against John Edward Massey and others, all persons claiming to be creditors of Edward Massey, late of No. 17, Chadwell-street, Myddleton-square, in the county of Middlesex, Watch Manufacturer, who died in or about the month of May, 1852[12]
For the continuation business see Edward Massey (Successor of)
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Parish record
- ↑ Parish records
- ↑ [1] Royal Greenwich Museums
- ↑ Possible date given on tree on Ancestry
- ↑ London Gazette 24 April 1821
- ↑ 1840 Robson London Directory
- ↑ 1840 Robson London Directory
- ↑ 1841 census
- ↑ Post Office London Directory 1845
- ↑ The Times Apr. 14, 1849
- ↑ 1851 census
- ↑ London Gazette 8 May 1857
- Science Museum [3]