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 162,346 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Leonard Clayton

From Graces Guide

c.1816 Born in Whalley, Lancs.

1837 A blacksmith, when he married Mary Lee in Colne; his father, John, was a farmer[1]

1857 A boiler maker when his daughter, Alice, married in Burnley[2]

1861 Leonard Clayton 40, farmer, lived in Chorlton with May Clayton 48, Mary A Clayton 21, Lawrence Clayton 20, smith[3]

1864 Formed Clayton, Son and Co with his son Lawrence in Leeds.

1881 Boiler and gas holder maker, visiting Richard Hargreaves 59, farm bailiff and Lydia Hargreaves 61 in Bolton[4]

1883 Died in Leeds

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Sources of Information

  1. Parish Marriage records
  2. Parish records
  3. 1861 census
  4. 1881 census