{"id":130,"date":"2011-01-30T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/maltaterr\/?p=130"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:58:06","slug":"george-trimble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2011\/01\/30\/george-trimble\/","title":{"rendered":"George Trimble"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Trimble and his family lived at No. 7 for about ten years, between 1868 and 1879.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> He was a civil engineer, born about 1828 at Thursby, Cumberland and baptised at St Mary Carlisle on 19 August 1828.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> His parents\u2019 names were not recorded, and he appears to have been raised in the household of his uncle George Trimble, a farmer and land-owner.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Isabella Trimble, unmarried sister of the latter was also a member the household.<\/p>\n

He was recorded in the 1851 census at Thursby, aged 23, but no occupation was given.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> In 1861 he was a \u2018civil engineer (assistant)\u2019 living in Raeburn Place, Edinburgh.<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> George Trimble was for many years an assistant to the civil engineer Sir Thomas Bouch, designer of the first Tay Bridge and a native of Thursby. Upon the latter\u2019s death in 1880 he went into partnership with Thomas Peddie, who was also an assistant to Bouch. Trimble & Peddie were engaged on numerous railway projects, including the Edinburgh suburban line. About 1898 the partnership was dissolved<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and George Trimble retired to Grosmont, Herefordshire where he died on 17 January 1913.<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Trimble married Frances Storey (1826-1904) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 16 October 1854.<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Frances Storey was baptised at Thornton Steward, Yorkshire on 11 August 1822, daughter of school master John Arrowsmith Storey and Mary Thornbury.<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> In 1851 she was a school mistress living with her grandmother at Heighington, Durham.<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> She died in 1904.<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Trimble and Frances Storey had seven children, the youngest born before the family moved to No. 7 Malta Terrace. Six children were living there at the time of the 1871 census:<\/p>\n