Person:Isaac Wilson (29)

In 1881 Isaac Wilson (b. 1822, Kendal, Westmoreland), MP, ironmaster and farming, 350 acres, employing 10 labourers, wife Anna D. (b. 1822, Kendal), son R. Theodore Wilson (b. 1856, Nunthorpe, Yorkshire), ironmaster, daughters and servants were at Nunthorpe, Yorkshire (census). Information from S. Shawcross, rootsweb: Isaac Wilson was born 16feb1822 at Kendal, Cumbria, and died 22sep1899 at Stokesley, Yorkshire, son of Isaac Wilson (24dec1784-23dec1844) and Mary Jowitt (10feb1786-2may1846); they married 14apr1808. Isaac (b. 1822) was JP and DL of Nunthorpe Hall, Nunthorpe, Yorkshire. He was MP for Middleborough in 1890. He married Anna Dorothy Benson 9jun1847, at Kendal. From a history of Nunthorpe Hall:The opening of the Middlesbrough-Guisborough Railway in 1853 brought the Industrial Revolution to Nunthorpe three years after the arrival of Isaac Wilson at Nunthorpe Hall. He was related to the Pease family and had come to Middlesbrough in 1841 to manage a pottery in Commercial Street. He later joined Edward Gilkes to form Tees Engine Works which, in 1865, merged into larger concern known as Hopkins, Gilkes & Co. Mr Wilson built the first school in Nunthorpe and was largely responsible for its maintenance. In 1854 he became Mayor of Middlesbrough and MP for the town following the death in 1678 of Henry Bolckow. He died in 1899 and Nunthorpe Hall was occupied by Joseph Albert Pease, MP. Although he and his family remained in residence for only a short period they left their mark by carving the family crest in the porches above the main and south entrances where they can still be seen today.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
3.   England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.).