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A genealogy of the Selwyn family
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 1820 - 1901 (81 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  Adm. Jasper Henry Selwyn was born on 07 Feb 1820 in Kilmington, Somerset, England; died on 31 Dec 1901 in Hyde Park, London. Other Events:
- Census: 1851, Kilmington Rectory, Kilmington, Somerset
- Resided: 1865, Woodland Crag, Grasmere
Notes:
The London Gazette published
2884. To Jasper Henry Selwyn, of Woodland
Crag Grasmere, in the county of Westmoreland,
Captain in the Royal Navy, for the invention
of "a novel apparatus for paying out or
laying down submarine telegraph cables or
wires, and for raising the same after they have
been laid down." On 14 January, 1859
On his petition, recorded in the Office of the Commissioners
on the 16th day of December, 1858.
The "The London Gazette" October 18, 1872 contains
Jasper Henry Selwyn, of Woodland Crag,
Grasmere, Westmorland, Captain R.N, for an
invention of "improvements in cartridges for
certain kinds of breech loading fire arms." Dated 12th October, 1865.
File US Patent 57269 "Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms" on 14 Aug, 1866
File US Patent 4070437 "Improvement in treating ores of silver" on 18 Feb, 1873
File US Patent 412300 "Hydro-Metallurgical Method of Extracting Metals" on March 24, 1888
Jasper married Elizabeth Berry Peyton in Jul 1851 in Florence, Italy. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholson Peyton) was born in 1828 in Colwall, Herefordshire, England ; died on 28 Nov 1907 in Kendal, Westmorland, United Kingdom . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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