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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.

James Frederic Wilson

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1856 Born in Germany

1874-7 A pupil of James Wilson, of 2 Royal Exchange Buildings, London

1874-82 Student member of the Inst Civil Engineers

1877-80 In the drawing office of Mr Joseph Kincaid

Resident engineer on the construction of various tramways under Mr Kincaid

1882-4 Engineer to the Jablochkoff Electric Light Co

1884-6 Worked on various projects for James Wilson

1886-7 Resident engineer in Barbados for the water works

1887-9 Worked in the office of James Wilson

1889 Appointed engineer in South Africa to the Victoria Hill Consolidated Gold Mining Co., surveying and laying out tramways

1889 Associate Member of Inst Civil Engineers

1891 James F Wilson 34, civil engineer, lived in Lewisham with Mary E Wilson 33[1]

1911 James Frederic Wilson 54, mining engineer, lived in Sydenham with Mary Elizabeth Wilson 53, Oscar Claude Wilson 17[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1891 census
  2. 1911 census
  • Civil engineer records