Samuel Leek
1879 Samuel Leek, of 8 Great Hampton St, Whitmore reans, Wolverhampton, bicycle and tricycle manufacturer[1]
1879 Partnership dissolved. '...Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Samuel Leek and Joseph Fletcher, carrying on business together at Great Hampton-street, Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, as Bicycle Makers, under the style or firm of Leek, Fletcher, and Co., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent....'[2]
1880 Bankruptcy. '...Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by Frederick John Lloyd, now residing at Upper Villiers street, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, Bicycle Manufacturer and Clerk, and Samuel Leek, now residing at Church-lane, Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, Bicycle Manufacturer, formerly trading in copartnership at Church-lane, Wolverhampton aforesaid, as Bicycle Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Lloyd, Leek, and Company....'[3]
1881 Living at 11 Great Hampton St, Wolverhampton: William Leek, age 49, engine fitter at works, Sarah Leek, age 49, Samuel Leek, age 24, boiler maker at works, Fred Leek 22, Ellen Leek 17, Emily Leek 16, Clara Leek 6[4]