Thomas Brassey

1805 - 1870  (65 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 38 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Thomas Brassey
  Birth	07 Nov 1805
  Gender	Male
  Death	08 Dec 1870
  Person ID	I681180	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2010

  
  

  Father	John Brassey
  Mother	Elizabeth
  Family ID	F348202	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria Harrison
  Children	+ 1. Earl Thomas Brassey,   b. 11 Feb 1836   d. 23 Feb 1918 (Age 82 years)   2. Henry Brassey,   b. 1840   3. Albert Brassey,   b. 1844
  Family ID	F348201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2010

  
  

• Notes

  railway contractor an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America and India. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts, stations, tunnels and drainage works. As well as railway engineering, Brassey was active in the development of steamships, mines, locomotive factories, marine telegraphy, and water supply and sewage systems. He built part of the London sewerage system, still in operation today, and was a major shareholder in Brunel's The Great Eastern, the only ship large enough at the time to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable across the North Atlantic, in 1864.