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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:

  1. UPFIELD GREEN, born in London circa 1838. In the 1881 Census there was only one UPFIELD GREEN and it said he was living South Hackney. His wife SISELLI maiden name unknown, born in Prussia about 1840. His children were: A. SIESE GREEN born in Prussia about 1858, B. FREDRICK GREEN born in Prussia about 1860 (he married Ella Man),  C. FLORENCE GREEN born in Middlesex, London about 1866.
  2. ASHDOWN HENRY GREEN born in London 1840. He emigrated to Canada in 1862. He became a surveyor. His daughter CAROLINE GREEN born in Canada in 1880 and married a John W.C. Norie in 1903, and later moved to England. JOHN NORIE died 1923, CAROLINE NORIE nee GREEN may have died in Cornwall about 1965.
  3. CAROLINE GREEN born in Middlesex, Islington circa 1843.
  4. WALTER GREEN born in Maidstone, Kent circa 1847. His wife was FLORENCE maiden name and birthdate unknown. No children.
  5. MARY H. GREEN was born in Maidstone Kent circa 1852. Either MARY H. GREEN or CAROLINE GREEN married a man with the surname GILES, and they had a son RALPH GILES.

NOTE: THOMAS GREEN may have had two more children - HERBERT GREEN dates unknown and an ALICE GREEN born in Farnborough, Kent circa 1848.