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The Common Room / Re: The North of Europe Land & Mining Co. Ltd.
« on: Wednesday 11 May 11 20:04 BST (UK) »Hello Oasorgard, JOSEPH RODNEY CROSKEY was my husband's great great great grandfather. He was born 12 April 1810 in Philadelphia, USA, but his father was an English settler from London. He married Maria Teresa Elvira MACOMB in Phil. in 1833, but was widowed shortly after, and remarried in 1843 on the Isle of Wight, England, to Sarah ROPER. His daughter from his first marriage was Isabella Bloomfield CROSKEY born 1834 in Burlington, New Jersey. She was my husband's great great grandmother. He had seven more children with his second wife.
I have some notes pertaining to JRC, which may be of interest - I will quote them below:-
"In the packet ship Sheridan, palled yesterday for Liverpool—Joseph Rodney Croskey, Ver Planck's Point, NY. (From NY Spectator, May 1842).
To Joseph Rodney Croskey, of Saint Michael's House, Cornhill, in the city of London, for the invention of "improvements in machinery or apparatus for receiving and paying out submarine electric telegraph cables". (From London Gazette, 6 May 1864).
The Bankruptcy Act, 1869. In the London Bankruptcy Court. In the Matter of Joseph Rodney Croskey. formerly of No. 43, Portsdown-road, .Maida Vale, and now No. 31,St. Mary's-terrace, Paddington, both in the county of Middlesex, formerly Merchant and Contractor, but now out ot business, a Bankrupt.
Archibald Scott Lawson, of 32, Essex-street, Strand in the county of Middlesex,. Gentleman, has been appointed Trustee of the property of the bankrupt. Tbe Court has appointed the Public Examination of the bankrupt to take place at tbe London Bankruptcy Court, Lincoln's-inn-fields, on the 16th day of January, 1878, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. All persons having in their possession any of the effects of the bankrupt must deliver them to the trustee, and all debts due to the bankrupt must be paid to the trustee. Creditors who have not yet proved their debts must forward their proofs of debts to the trustee.—Dated
this 10th day of December, 1877. (From London Gazette, Dec 1877)."
JRC died in London in 1886, in the Chelsea Registration District.
I have other info on file but am not sure how much you are interested in. I knew nothing of his dealings in the N.E.L.M. Co. so this is new information to me.
Hello, I am sorry for my late reply. The information I want to know about Joseph Rodney Croskey (and the other 4 founders of The North of Europe Land & Mining Co. Ltd) is where and when he was born and died, when and whit who he was married, name and birthdate of his children, and a summary about his life.