Close and Clark
of Sheffield
Glass manufacturers
1828 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Martha Beatson, William Close, and John Graves Clark, all of Masbrough, in the Parish of Rotherham, in the County of York, as Glass Manufacturers, and carried on by us at Masbrough aforesaid, under the firm of Close and Clark, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 21st day of May last.— All debts owing to or by the said Copartnership concern will be received and paid by the said William Close and John Graves Clark, who will in future carry on the said business on their own account...'[1]
1841 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, and carrying on business under the style or firm of Close and Clark, as Glass Manufacturers, at Masbrough, in the parish of Rotherham, in the county of York, stands dissolved, as and from the 1st day of January last All debts owing to and by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said John Graves Clark, by whom the business will in future be carried on...William Close and J. G. Clark'[2]