Henry Sanderson (OHs)

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Henry Sanderson

Date and place of birth
11 Jan 1798, Doncaster Yorkshire

Names of parents
William Sanderson and Mary nee Jowett

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
2 Mar 1798, Doncaster Yorkshire

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
1) married Mary Ann Ives on 28 Jul 1818 at Brodsworth Yorkshire
2) married Elizabeth Hibberd aft May 1830, bef Jul 1831 (probably) at Sheffield Yorkshire

Occupation(s) - if any
Land surveyor, writer, author, "Engineering Surveyor to Lord Fitzwilliam"

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1841 - at Milton Hall (seat of Earl Fitzwilliam), near Peterborough Northamptonshire - his wife and younger children are in Stamford Baron, a few miles away.

Date, place and cause of death
2 Feb 1849, at Milton Hall, Castor, Northants

Date and place of burial.
8 Feb 1849, St Mary the Virgin, Marholm, (where Fitzwilliam family members are buried)

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any

Henry Sanderson had eight sons, only one of whom died in England (Albert as a baby). William, Charles and Alexander all worked for Indian Railways and all died in India. Henry, Edmund and John all migrated to NSW and died there. James was "lost from the top mast" date unknown. Mary Ann, the only daughter of his first marriage died in NZ.


Wrote:

"Considerations on the proposal for communication by a navigable canal between the town of Sheffield and the Peak Forest Canal with remarks and calculations tending to prove the superiority of an edge-railway for passing over a mountainous district" 1826

"A PLAN OF DONCASTER RACE-GROUND THE TOWN FIELD AND PART OF THE TOWN". Lithograph published 1829

"Description of the intended line of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, with some observations thereon " 1831

[Lauchlan John Sanderson]

Hnery Sanderson was ny great great great great great grandfather direct line througn Alexander his son, William , Major Alexander , Clonel John Burden and then me Robin Sanderson!

[Lauchlan John Sanderson]

Henry Sanderson was my great, great, great, grandfather direct line through Alexander his son, William , Major Alexander , Clonel John Burden and then me Robin/ Sanderson!