Appleby & Co of Renishaw Iron Works, Chesterfield
See also Renishaw Iron Co
Ironfounders and pump makers
Formerly Appleby, Walker and Co.
1850 William Walker dies and the company becomes Appleby and Co
1858 Concerning a lease '...an agreement with Francis Rookby Appleby, Samuel Gardner, and Henry Longden, carrying on business under the firm of Appleby and Company, for granting to them a lease of the ironstone under certain parts of the said Walton Hall Estate, for a term of twenty-one years...' [1]
1863 '...the Partnership of Appleby and Company, of Renishaw, in the parish of Eckington, in the county of Derby, Ironmasters, Ironfounders, and Coalmasters, which heretofore, consisted of the undersigned, Francis Rokeby Appleby, and of Charles Appleby and Samuel Gardner, now respectively deceased, was and has been dissolved and determined, so far only as relates to the said Charles Appleby or his representatives, on and from the 19th day of April, 1860, and so far only as relates to the said Samuel Gardner or his representatives, on and from the 30th day of June, 1861; and that the business of the said partnership is now and will continue to be carried on by the said Francis Rokeby Appleby, in conjunction with his nephew, the undersigned, Charles Edward Appleby, under the aforesaid name of Appleby and Company...' [2]
1868 '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting and carried on between and by the undersigned, Francis Rokeby Appleby and Charles Edward Appleby, as Iron Masters, and Coal Masters, at Renishaw, in the parish of Eckington, in the county of Derby, under the style or firm of Appleby and Company, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent...' [3]
1888 Mention of Charles E. Hunter a partner in Appleby and Co, the owners of the Renishaw Iron Co and the Cotton Colliery employing 250 persons at each [4]