Richard Grasby

1817 - 1867  (50 years)

• Name	Richard Grasby
  Birth	21 Jan 1817	Hull, , Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8C6E1F16E6754E0AAF6D91AB2A3ECCB62417
  Death	Jul-Sep 1867	District Hull   [1]
  Person ID	I14069	The Maw Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Richard Grassby,   b. 1788, Hull, , Yorkshire, England d. 1855, Sculcoates, , Yorkshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Ann (Hannah?) Mutch,   b. 1787, Hessle, , Yorkshire, England d. 1866, Sculcoates, , Yorkshire, England (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1809	Holy Trinity Church, Hull, , Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F13677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Henderson,   b. 1816, Hull, , Yorkshire, England d. 21 May 1886, District Hull (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	29 Jan 1839	All Saints, Sculcoates, , Yorkshire, England
  	Marriage was witnessed by: William Henderson Margaret Clarkson
  Children	1. Walter Grasby,   b. Mar 1860, Hull, , Yorkshire, England d. 1 Apr 1927, Studley House, Plane Street, Hull, , Yorkshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F13583	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  1. Was a builder as well as a joiner. 2. Address: Chariot St., Sculcoates. 3. Invested in property. Richard and Mary Ann had 11 children and they started the tradtion of giving family surnames as second names. Residence 1851 Kingston Upon Hull Holy Trinity, Yorkshire, England Listed under "professions and trades" for HULL in Pigot's Directory of 1829, "Joiners", "Sanderson & Grassby, Osborne street" Listed under "professions and trades" for HULL in Pigot's Directory of 1834, "JOINERS & BUILDERS", "Grassby Richard, West end Old dock". By then he must have got on his own - no longer with Sanderson. Listed in White's Directory of 1840, "professions and trades", JOINERS & BUILDERS, "•Grassby Richard, West end Old dock". The Old Dock The first dock in Hull was built built between 1775 and 1778 to a design by Henry Berry, the work being finished by the engineer John Grundy. The dock was called The Dock until the construction of further docks, whence it was called The Old Dock; it was officially named the Queen's Dock in 1855. The dock entrance was on the river Hull just south of North Bridge, and the dock itself built along the path of the North Wall (west-south-west) as far as the Beverley Gate. Some of the work proved inadequate, requiring reconstruction later. The dock walls were of local brick, whilst cement for its construction was rendered waterproof through the use of pozzolana imported from Italy. At the entrance to the dock a double drawbridge, counterbalanced for ease of use, of the Dutch type allowed people to cross the lock. The dock was 1,703 ft (519 m) long, 254 ft (77 m) wide, and the lock 121 ft (37 m) long and 38 ft (12 m) wide, with the depth of water being between 15 ft (4.6 m) and 20 ft (6.1 m) depending on the tide. The dock closed in 1930 and was sold to the Corporation for £100,000; subsequently it was infilled and converted to an ornamental gardens known as Queen's Gardens.

  
  

• Sources

  [S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Hull - Volume 9d Page 143 (Reliability: 3).