Charles Paxton MARKHAM

1865 - 1926  (61 years)

• Name	Charles Paxton MARKHAM
  Born	14 Apr 1865	Brimington, Derbyshire, England   [1, 2]
  	General Register Office Index:- June 1/4 1865, Chesterfield
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	25 Dec 1865	Brimington, Derbyshire, England   [3]
  Census	1871	Brimington Hall, Brimington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
  	Son; Scholar, age 5 years
  Census	1881	West Deyne Boarding House, Uppingham School, High Street, Uppingham, Rutland, England
  	Boarder; Scholar
  Census	1891	Ashgate Road, Newbold and Dunston, Derbyshire, England
  	Head; Married; Civil and Mechanical Engineer
  Address	1901	Hasland Hall, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
  	Address: From Kelly's Handbook 1901
  Census	1911	Hasland Hall, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
  	Iron and Coal Master; Engineer and Mayor of Chesterfield
  Died	29 Jun 1926	Hasland Hall, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England   [4]
  	General Register Office Index:- June 1/4 1926, Chesterfield
  Notes	The Victoria Foundry near Chesterfield, Derbyshire was owned and successfully run by father and son partnership John and William Oliver from the mid-1850s .......... In 1889 the business was sold to industrialist Charles Paxton Markham and became Markham and Co. Ltd. Markham's continued the business of building winding machinery for collieries begun by Oliver and supplied many of the collieries in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. So well known were Markham's products that in the ten years from 1927, in a time of economic depression, the Markham works built 20 winders for gold mines in South Africa, giving the Chesterfield workforce regular work in a difficult period. By 1948 the company had built more than 200 steam and electric winding engines and their associated machinery for both the home and export markets. Included in this was a mine winder with a 34 feet diameter drum, 7 feet larger than made by William Oliver. The company had diversified over the years and, again in 1948, the Broad Oaks works were making haulage gears, rolling mills and ancillary equipment, steel girders, large steel-framed buildings, light alloy extrusion presses, spun cast iron plant, blast furnace plant, large iron castings and research equipment in addition to its involvement in turbine and tunnelling operations. In the early years of the twentieth century, as a departure from mining machinery, the company built and supplied tunnelling equipment for the construction of London's new (deep tunnel) Underground, the Mersey Tunnel and during the 1930s the Moscow Underground. The tunnelling equipment was a success and more orders followed, post-war productions included tunnelling shields for the Dartford Tunnel under the River Thames and in the 1980s the same for the Channel Tunnel. During the Second World War the firm worked on several secret projects including building X craft submarines for Vickers-Armstrong. They built X22 Exploit, X 23 Xphias, XE 11 Lucifer, XE 12 Excitable. Others were built by Marshalls of Gainsborough and Broadbent of Huddersfield. They also built a large number of presses for Loewy during the war for other firms making components for the war effort, as well as gun barrel turning lathes and riffling machines for Cravens Ltd a sister company. In 1925 Charles Paxton Markham reconstituted his company as part of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company and so ensuring its future. The following year Charles Paxton Markham died. Ownership of the company changed again and by 1937 the firm had been bought by Sheffield-based steel makers and engineers John Brown and Company Ltd for £50,000, the Chesterfield works continuing operations as before.
  Person ID	I6159	Silk Weavers and Stay Makers
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	Charles MARKHAM,   b. 01 Mar 1823, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. 30 Aug 1888, Derbyshire, England  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Rosa PAXTON,   b. 1840, Edensor, Derbyshire, England ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	24 Apr 1862	The Parish Church of St Bartholomew, Sydenham, Kent, England   [1]
  Family ID	F1817	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Hermine JACKSON,   b. 05 Aug 1864, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 09 Oct 1936, Derbyshire, England  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F1558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Frances Marjery NUNNERLEY
  Married	1925
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F5130	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S93] Visitation of England and Wales Volume 2, 1894, page 32. [S11] The 1871 Population Census of England, Wales and Scotland, taken on the night of Sunday, the 2nd. April. [S104] LDS Parish Baptisms Index. [S1472] The Northern Daily Mail, Wednesday, June 30, 1926, page 3, Death report.