Johnson and Sharrocks
of Manchester
1818 'NOTICE is hereby given, that the partnership heretofore carried on by us, the undersigned Stephen Russell, John Johnson, and Thomas Sharrocks, as pin-manufacturers and wire-workers, at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of "Russell, Johnson, and Sharrocks," was this day dissolved by mutual consent. As witness our hands this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1818. STEPHEN RUSSELL, JOHN JOHNSON, THOS. SHARROCKS. Signed in the presence of Jonn. Booth, Clerk to Mr. Wood, Solicitor, Manchester.'[1]
1825 'SALFORD EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, January 19. James Coop, aged 23, pleaded guilty to an indictment for stealing, on the 6th November, twenty-eight pounds of brass wire, the property John Johnson and Thomas Sharrocks. The prisoner had been imprisoned before, for robbing a cart, of a trunk containing wearing apparel belonging to Miss Bent, was sentenced to be transported for seven years.'[2]
1825 Listed as brass, copper and iron wire drawers, wire web and pin mfrs. and flour machine makers, 2 Hyde's Cross[3].
1836 Partnership dissolved between John Johnson, William Sharrocks, Richard Johnson, and John Sharrocks, wire drawers, Manchester, 31st Dec.— Debts by Richard Johnson and John Sharrocks [4]
1836 Fiat dated June 18—Pet. Crs. Richard Johnson, John Sharrocks, and William Johnson, of Manchester, wire drawers [5]
1837 Partnership dissolved between Richd. Johnson, John Sharrocks and William Johnson, Manchester, wire manufacturers and pin makers (so far as regards John Sharrocks. [6]
1838 Presumably became Richard Johnson and Brother
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Mercury, 7 July 1818
- ↑ Manchester Mercury, 25 January 1825
- ↑ 'History, Directory, and Gazeteer of the County of Lancaster', Vol 2, by Edward Baines and W. Parson
- ↑ London Gazette, 19 Jan 1836, reported in Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette, 30 January 1836
- ↑ London Gazette, July 12 1836, reported in Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette, 16 July 1836
- ↑ London Gazette, January 31 1837, reported in Gloucester Journal, 4 February 1837