Ebenezer Smith and Co

of Chesterfield, Iron Masters.

of 7 Swan Street, Manchester, Iron Masters.

Are these the same business, or two businesses with the same name in different towns?

1800 Joseph Read of Read and Lucas in Sheffield married (in London) Elizabeth Smith (b1778 in London), the daughter of Ebenezer Smith (and Elizabeth Cater Smith) of the Smiths Ironworks.

1823 Benjamin Boothby retired from the Partnership with Ebenezer Smith, the elder, Joseph Read, William Cater Smith, Ebenezer Smith, the younger, and the Executors of Joseph Fletcher Smith deceased, Samuel Smith, deceased, and John Smith, deceased, respectively, at Little Brampton and Walton, in the County of Derby, as Iron Founders and Copartners, under the firm of Ebenezer Smith and Company.

1825 Listed as Iron founders, iron merchants, and ironmongers in Manchester

1828 Listed under "Iron master and iron and brass founder" and as "steam engine maker" at Adelphi and Calow Works, Chesterfield.

1834 Listed in Pigot's Directory of Manchester as Iron & Brass Founders, 21 Oak Street, Swan Street

In the 1830s, the Smiths Ironworks, Chesterfield, failed.

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1756 Ebenezer Smith was born

1758 Elizabeth Cater was born in Solihull

1777 Ebenezer Smith married Elizabeth Cater in London

1778 Birth of daughter Elizabeth in London

1800 Elizabeth Smith junior married Joseph Read in Old Brampton, Derbys.

1821 Elizabeth Smith, widow of Ebenezer Smith senior, of Chesterfield, was buried in Derby age 63

1827 Ebenezer Smith of Chesterfield, age 71 was buried Old Brampton, Derbyshire

1835 The will of Ebenezer Smith, iron founder, of Chesterfield, was proved by application of his sons Ebenezer Smith, William Cater Smith and Joseph Bright Smith

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