Records of Charles Abel on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Charles Abel in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Abel and the Abel Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Abel Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Abel family tree.

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Some Famous People called Charles Abel

Charles Denton Abel

Charles Denton Abel was born in London in 1831, the grandson of August Christian Andreas Abel, who was court miniature painter to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin. and the younger brother of the chemist and explosives expert, Sir Frederick Abel, Chairman and Albert Medallist of the Society of Arts.

In 1856 he entered into partnership with Mr Charles Cowper, a patent agent, in England. Following Mr Cowper's death in 1860 he continued his work as a patent attorney and later entered into partnership with John Imray, to form Abel & Imray in 1871 with offices in the Holborn area of London, a firm which still operates under that name today.

Abel assisted in founding the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents in 1882, and was the first "vice president" of the Chartered Institute. and later served as President from 1897 to 1899.

He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1886 and awarded theSociety’s Gold Medal for his paper on ‘The Patent Laws’ in 1904.

He died in 1906

Source: Charles Denton Abel, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Abel

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