Eckersley Ffarington and Co
From Graces Guide
of Western Mills, Poolstock, Wigan.
1883 The company was registered on 8 September, as Eckersley, ffarington and Co, to acquire a business of cotton spinners, bleachers, and dyers. [1].
Note the use of lower 'f' in ffarington.
1891 Directory (Wigan): Listed as Cotton spinner and manufacturers. More details
1901 Merged with James Eckersley and Sons to form Eckersleys.
1935 'Lieut-Colonel Nathaniel ffarington Eckersley a large landowner in Lancashire and Shropshire, who was High Sherriff of Shropshire in 1919-20 died at Wem yesterday, aged 77. He belonged to a well known Lancashire family of landowners, colliery proprietors and cotton mill owners, being the second and only surviving son of the late Mr Nathaniel Eckersley....'[2]
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