Author: Coulson, Stephen
Biography:
COULSON, Stephen (1792-1849: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 14 June 1792 at Whorlton in Cleveland, Yorkshire, the second of eight sons of Stephen Coulson (1757-1841), miller, and Sarah Thompson (1763-1836), who had married in 1789. It is not known where he went to school but together with his elder brother Robert Coulson (1789-1862) he took over the running of the corn mills at Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire. He married Jane Burnicle (1799-1887) on 4 May 1823 at Marske, Yorkshire, with his occupation given as “millwright.” They had at least two children. His interest in medicine and his praise of James Morison (1770-1840), physician and “hygeist,” in the work listed here, stemmed from his suffering from a long-standing under-arm tumour which he claimed had been cured by Morison’s regimen and treatment. After an acrimonious and public quarrel in 1838 with his brother over the role of lifeguards in the failure to rescue the crew of the Belsay Castle, stranded on the sands of the North Gare, he sold his interest in the mills and thereafter described himself as an engineer. At the time of his death, he was best known for Coulson’s Treatise on his Newly-Invented Engineers’ and Mechanics’ Slide Rule (1842) and for his role in raising the finance for and planning of the Middlesborough and Redcar railway extension, of which he was also part proprietor. He died on 28 Feb. 1849 at Coatham and was buried at St. Peter’s, Redcar. His wife, Jane, survived him, and died in 1887. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Mar. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 25 Mar. 2024; Bath Chronicle 27 Feb. 1834; Newcastle Courant 9 Mar. 1849; Kerry Shaw, “The Redcar Windmill Brothers and the Belsay Castle Tragedy,” notesfromredcar.wordpress.com) AA
Other Names:
- S. Coulson