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 165,122 pages of information and 246,492 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.

Elizabeth Dent

From Graces Guide

1783 Elizabeth Davis, born in Tenbury, Worcs[1]

1807 Married Richard Rippon in Paddington, London[2]

1808 Birth of son William Frederick

c.1813 Birth of daughter Mary Elizabeth who later married Thomas Buckney, Senior.

1817 Birth of son Richard

1843 After the death of Richard, Elizabeth married his cousin and co-worker, Edward John Dent

1852 Edward died. His stepsons, Frederick and Richard, inherited the business

Both Frederick and Richard, died. Elizabeth gained control of the business.

1861 Watch and chronometer maker, lived in Kensington; visited by Thomas Buckney, 62, a timber merchant[3]

1865 of Bayswater, London, when she died; her executors were Thomas Buckney, of The Strand, gentleman, and her daughter, Amelia Lydia Sophia Gardner[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1861 census
  2. London Marriages and Banns
  3. 1861 census
  4. National Probate calendar