Walker, Smith and Co
of Bury
Family connection with Richard Walker and Brother
1846. Partnership change. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Walker, Richard Walker the younger, John Scholes Walker, Richard Smith, and Richard Hacking, carrying on business at Bury, in the county of Lancaster, as Machine Makers, under the style or firm of Walker, Smith, and Company, was dissolved, as to the said John Walker, by mutual consent, on the 1st day of January 1845, from which day the said business has been carried on by the said Richard Walker the younger, John Scholes Walker, Richard Smith, and Richard Hacking only...'[1]