of Banbury
1861 October. J. E. Kirby takes Thomas Welch Barrows, a Coal Master of Tipton and residing at Handsworth into partnership and to trade as Kirby and Barrows and produce Portable and fixed engines and also other agricultural machines [1]
1863 February 24th. Dissolution of the partnership between Joseph Edward Kirby and Thomas Welch Barrows trading as Kirby and Barrows. [2]
became Barrows and Carmichael