"Businesses" includes one-man businesses, partnerships and companies, recorded in trade directories, catalogues and newspapers.

The dates given are those during which the business is known to have been trading.


Thomas ATKINS   1818 - 1821


J BATE    1872

John BAYMAN  1792

James BRADLEY 1818 -  1839

James BRITTLE  1818


Jn CHECKETTS  1892

T & C CLARK & CO  1795 - 1911    

Note - the Company was in existence until the mid 1960s.

HENRY CORNS & CO   1845 - 1874

JOHN CORNS 1849

WILLIAM CORNS & CO  1790 - 1911

Note: this Company is still in existence


George DEVEREUX  1839 - 1851

Richard DAVIS 1851

Joseph DUFFIELD  1818 - 1823

John EDWARDS  1855-1874


William EVANS 1802

Note: this may be the Evans of Pearson & Evans


George FIELDHOUSE & Co   Founded 1790

Trading as George Fieldhouse 1790-1829

Trading as George Fieldhouse & Co 1833 - 1874

Abel FISHER 1818

Benjamin FULLWOOD 1818

Elizabeth FRYER 1770 (possibly the widow of Richard FRYER)

Richard FRYER 1767


HARRIS NICKLIN & CO   1835 - 1842

Ann HANCOX 1827 - 1829

John HILL 1849 - 1850

Thomas HORTON 1845 - 1850

Thomas HOWELL 1833 - 1842


James JENNINGS  1790 - 1793

James JENNINGS 1802 - 1811

Elizabeth JONES 1790 - 1793

Richard LEER 1792 - 1802


Robert MACKVELEY 1873 - 1901

Eleanor MORRIS 1849

John MORRIS 1818 - 1842


James NEALD 1818 - 1823

Joseph NEAL 1833

Thomas NEILD 1792 - 1802

William NEW 1767

JOHN NICKLIN BANKS & CO 1850 - 1851


William PARKES 1770 - 1793

William PARKES 1876

PEARSON & EVANS 1770

Possibly William Evans and John Pearson


Benjamin PEARSON 1838 - 1896

George PEARSON 1833 - 1868

James PEARSON 1834 - 1849

John PEARSON 1790 - 1829

Joseph PEARSON 1833

H PINSON 1894 - 1897

B M PURSHOUSE 1845 - 1897


John SHELTON 1858

George SMITH 1818

George Fieldhouse SMITH 1851 - 1855

Peter SMITH 1823 - 1861

Samuel STYCH 1855 - 1887


Elizabeth WARREN 1790 - 1811

George WEBB 1770

W WESTON 1863

George WILKINSON 1818 - 1842

James WILKINSON 1818 - 1849