Thomas Perkins
Born c1822, son of Edward Perkins, a farmer
1856 Married Frances Sharman in Wellingborough, daughter of an iron monger[1]
1860 Became a partner in Amies and Barford
1871 Living at West Lane, Hitchin (age 49 and born at Hilmorton, Warwickshire), Agricultural Engineer and Ironmonger employing 30 men and 7 boys. With wife Frances (age 48) and children Eleanor (age 13), John Edward Sharman (age 11), Arthur Thomas (age 8) and Francis Leonard (age 5) plus four servants. [2]
1881 Living at West Lane, Hitchin (age 59 and born at Hilmorton, Warwickshire), Agricultural Engineer employing 40 men and 8 boys. With wife Frances (age 58) and children Eleanor E. (age 23), Arthur T. (age 18) and his nephew John E. Perkins (age 18) plus two servants. [3]
1908 Died in Hitchin[4]