E. Cross and Sons
of Lancaster, Preston and Liverpool
1883 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore carried on by the undersigned, John Cross, William Cross, and Thomas Cross, as Slaters, Plasterers, and Slate and Cement Merchants, at Lancaster, Preston, and Liverpool, all in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of E. Cross and Sons was this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business, so far as relates to the sale of Cement, Slate, and General Building Materials and to the manufacture of Ornamental Plasterwork, will be carried on by the said John Cross alone, under the style of E. Cross and Sons...'[1]