John Charles Beard and Sons
1872 Partnership change. '...the partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, John Charles Beard, William Beard, and Neville Beard, all of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, carrying on business at Acorn Mill, in the township of Chadderton, in the said county of Lancaster, as Cotton Spinners and Doublers, under the firm of John Charles Beard and Sons, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due and owing to and by the concern will be received-and paid by the said William Beard and Neville Beard, by whom the business will in future be carried on under the same style or firm...'[1]