| Administrative History | Herman Eugene Falk was born in Danzig in 1820 and came to England at the age of 18 to join his brothers in a timber importing business at Hull. The firm obtained contracts from the engineer Robert Stephenson, for the supply of sleepers for railway construction and shipped salt as return cargo to the Baltic. In 1844 he began the rock salt mine at Meadow Bank, Winsford. At the time of his death on 19 January 1898, he was living at Catsclough, Winsford,; probate was granted in London to his widow Alice. His effects were valued at £16,948. Herman John Falk died at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford on 11 February 1941; probate was granted at Oxford to Oswald Falk. His effects were valued at £9,644. H J Falk's wife Mary Gertrude died on 2 October 1937. |