Thomas Aveling (b. 1 November 1824, d. 7 March 1882)
Thomas Aveling (son of Thomas Aveling and Ann Hobson) was born 1 November 1824 in Elm, and died 7 March 1882 in Rochester, Kent, England. He married Sarah Lake on 23 October 1850 in District of Bridge., daughter of Robert Lake.
Notes for Thomas Aveling: !SOURCE: -Neil Hallam - Valma McCann. !BIRTH: Place from 1881 census. Aged 56 yrs. !OCCUPATION: from 1881 census. Ag. Engineer. !RESIDENCE: at 1881 census. Bowley Hill House. Kent. !Mayor of Rochester, 1868-69 Brought up by his mother and her 2nd husband after his father died when he was 11. Step-father, Rev John d'Urban was said to have ruled him with a bible in one hand and a birch in the other. Slow and dull as a boy "he became very bright when away from his step-father. Married the daughter of the farmer to whom he was apprenticed. Obituary of Thomas Aveling in "Graphic" Mar. 25th 1882. Mr Thomas Aveling, the chief of the firm of Aveling and Porter, engineers of Rochester, at the age of 57, was descended from an old Cambridgeshire family, having been at Elm, near Wisbech in 1824. His first occupation was farming, which for some years he followed under Mr. Robert Lake of Milton Chapel, near Canterbury, whose eldest daughter he subsequently married. He was always taking great interest in agricultural machinery. and was first to introduce the use of steam plough into Kent. Soon after he and his father in law began business at St. Thomas's Strood, as construction and repairers of agricultural machinery and proceeded to construct traction engines on the pitch-chain principle, an early patent of Mr. Avelings' which is remarkable for strength and simplicity as compared with those of other designs; and which won for him the 1st prize of the R.A.S. of England in 1860, and many honours from Agricultural Societies in England and abroad. Mr Aveling was a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and a Knight of the Order of St. Joseph. He filled the office of Mayor of Rochester, and during his year of office was instrumental in effecting many public improvements in the Town. He leaves a widow, a son and four daughters. Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France) Knight of the Order of Francis Joseph (Austria) Subject of lengthy obituary as developer, rather than inventor, of the Traction Engine.(Photocopy)
More About Thomas Aveling: Burial: March 1882 Christening: 1 November 1824, Elm, Whittlesey, Cambridge, England.
More About Thomas Aveling and Sarah Lake: Marriage: 23 October 1850, District of Bridge..
Children of Thomas Aveling and Sarah Lake are:
+Ellen Aveling, b. 28 June 1851, Rushinge, Kent., d. date unknown.
+Alice Aveling, b. 11 September 1853, East Ashford., d. date unknown.
Thomas Aveling (b. 1 November 1824, d. 7 March 1882)
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