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Hello
I am interested to see if anyone on your forum can lay claim to some knowledge about WALTER JAMES ALCOCK, who is always cited as the inventor of the perforations in toilet paper, usually in the 1880s, and is generally credited with having made nothing out of his invention.
The 1901 census has a Walter Alcock in Knowle, nr. Solihull, Warwickshire, aged 41, who is a paper manufacturer. His birthplace is given as Islington. This suggests he is the glass salesman, son of William Henry Alcock and his wife Sarah, of 151 Rotherhithe New Road, Rotherhithe, Surrey. Walter has four younger siblings: Frank, Ernest Frederick, Ruth Sarah and Sidney Arthur.
William Henry Alcock is, so it says, 56, eleven years older than his wife, and from Uppingham, Rutland (his wife is from Hammersmith).
I am writing a book about the early 1880s. I would be interested if anyone on this forum had any further information - even if it's to say that I've made a false connection.
Thanks.
Bill Greenwell
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