Frederick George Richardson

1802 —
A brief biography

Ancestors


Christopher Richardson — 1734 —
Rowland Richardson 1743 — 1806
Frederick George Richardson 1802 —
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Mentioned in

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Richardson v Commercial Railway Company

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Harriet Richardson 1808 —   Emily Richardson 1837 —  

Frederick George Richardson


Son of Rowland Richardson and Sarah Prickett. .

Born in 1802, the forty-second year of the reign of King George III.  He has 1 direct descendant in the family.

Richardson's Wharf


The rope railway

Around the time of the death of his uncle Christopher Richardson in 1836, Frederick George was appointed as head of the family timber yard. It appears to have been a short and unfortunate tenure - in August 1938 the Commercial Railway Company required land to run a new railway across the yard, effectively cutting the property in half. This was contested by the Richardsons, now heading for bankruptcy, as documented in Mentions.
The railway was duly built and opened in 1840 as a rope railway running from the City of London through Limehouse to Poplar. The six inch thick rope (a concept recommended by Robert Louis Stevenson to avoid the danger of flying sparks in built-up areas ) pulled the train in and out of the City of London.

Streatham

Resident of Streatham in 1881 when he was 78, although at the time of the 1881 census he and his daughter Emily were staying with his widowed sister Clara at 8 Connaught Street Hyde Park


8 Connaught Street, Kensington

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