Researching Rowland Ordish
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Records of Rowland Ordish on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rowland Ordish and the Ordish Family History
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Miscellaneous Ordish Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Rowland Ordish. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Rowland Ordish
Rowland Mason Ordish
Rowland Mason Ordish (11 April 1824 – 1886) was an English engineer. He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin (1865), for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London's St Pancras railway station, undertaken with William Henry Barlow (1868) and the Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873.
Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor. He worked with Charles (later Sir Charles) Fox, who was responsible for the construction of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851. He subsequently supervised its re-erection in Sydenham, south London.
His other projects included:*Farringdon Street Bridge, London*Holborn Viaduct, London (1863–69)*Derby market hall (1866) *Franz Joseph I Suspension Bridge, over the Vltava, Prague (1868, bombed 1941, demolished in 1947)*Cavenagh Bridge, Singapore (1869)*Esplanade Mansions, Mumbai, India (1869)*dome of Royal Albert Hall, London (1871)
Source: Rowland Mason Ordish, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Ordish
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