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Eleanor Woodcroft Hammond (1844-1918) married a Frenchman, Joseph Pierre Emmanuel Theogene Cluzel (1835-1885) and moved to France, where her descendants survive to this day. Documents show clearly that Bennet Woodcroft kept in touch with his children. One of Henry Woodcroft Hammond's daughters, Frances Mary Hammond (1872-1949), married Master Mariner Charles Henry Cross (1869-1923), a grand uncle of
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A letter to his subordinate at South
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conceived prior to his marriage. In fact, he had two children with an unmarried woman
Matilda Hammond, who lived close to him in Manchester. His son Henry Woodcroft Hammond (1839-1893) also became an engineer and emigrated to San Francisco, where he became President of the Anglo-Pacific Steel
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Woodcroft patented fundamental improvements in textile machinery and ship propulsion, and this in turn led to an absorbing interest in the history of the patent procedure. As a result of a reorganisation of the
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Subject-matter Index (made from Titles Only) of
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Patents for inventions. Abridgements of specifications relating to sugar. A.D. 1663–1866.
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which was the oldest surviving of its type in the world.
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