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Upfield Green (the father of Frederick Upfield-Green who married Ella Katherine Emma Man) was an interesting man. He was born on 4th August 1834 in London and educated at Brighton and Neuweid. He entered London and County Bank in 1852, became a master at Stourbridge School in 1855 and in the same year became overseer of Widerberger Hutte, a silver mine in Germany where he met his wife Lisa. The mine stopped working in 1860 and he returned to England acquiring the business of Groom Wilkinson. He wrote many studies on Geological matters and became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1889. (This is a summary taken from the Geological Magazine of July 1917 announcing his death and supplied by Colin Carden). Upfield Green was apprenticed to his father's firm Groom Wilkinson & Co of 79 Upper Thames Street, London and in the possession of the family is his indenture as an apprenticed stationer, dated 21st August 1874. The following has been found on the internet: THOMAS GREEN was born (maybe) in London circa 1798. He was the bank manager of the London & County bank. He married HARRIET KEMBER circa 1837. HARRIET GREEN nee KEMBER was born in Middlesex, Chelsea circa 1805. The 1871 and 1881 censuses state that HARRIET GREEN was living in Margate, Kent. THOMAS GREEN died before 1871. Their children were:
NOTE: THOMAS GREEN may have had two more children - HERBERT GREEN dates unknown and an ALICE GREEN born in Farnborough, Kent circa 1848. |