John Leigh Wilson
| John Leigh Wilson CE | |||||||
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| Born | 1837 | ||||||
| Died | 1886 | ||||||
| Residence | Piddington House, Warrington and Madras | ||||||
| Occupation | business | ||||||
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proposed 1867.01.15
civil engineer
Notes From Elsewhere
John Leigh Wilson. The Census Return of 1841 gives his age as three and a half, putting his birth in or about December 1837, whereas he was said to be 50 when he died in January 1886. He married Edith Maria Challis at Kensington in 1868, but Edith died in 1871, aged 29. John married again in 1873, to Lucy Wilson, daughter of Thomas Wilson, silk mercer of Frodsham, Cheshire, but the marriage failed, and they lived apart from the mid-1870s. In 1871 (presumably after his first wife died) John was “of Paddington”, and he was living at Padgate, Warrington in 1873. At the time of his death he was living in Bewsey Street, Warrington. He was a civil engineer, and had been connected with the Civil Service in Madras, India