John T. Brockliss
millwright


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John T. Brockliss -1883 to 1887+
John T. Brockliss was in partnership with John Weston Jordan

John T. Brockliss was born c.1855 in Oxford. In 1871 he was given as an apprentice engineer aged 16 living in Wantage, Berks. In 1881 he was given as living at 2 Middleton Road, Warkworth, Northamptonshire.


Jordan & Brockliss were listed in Eyre’s directory of 1883 as engineers & millwrights in Prince of Wales Road. They were listed in White’s Directory of 1886 as engineers, millwrights and boiler makers in Prince of Wales Road, & Rockland St. Mary & London. John T. Brockliss was listed as living in Rockland St. Mary, Norfolk.


John Brockliss had left Norwich by 1891, as he is shown as an agricultural engineer aged 37, living at Rock Fen, Stamford All Saints, Lincs with his wife Jane M., (35). In 1901 he is given as living in Hampstead, London with his wife Jane. Both are shown as 45 years old.


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