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Horton's and Ashton

From Graces Guide

of New Park Street, Boro (1829)

of Oil Street, Liverpool (1837)

Boiler and tank manufacturers.

1827 Partnership dissolved: Isaac Horton, Daniel Horton, Rich. Ashton, of Liverpool, iron-boiler-manufacturers; so far as regards the said Isaac Horton.[1]

1829 Engine boiler makers, [2]

1837 Horton & Ashton were one of a number of engineering firms petitioning the Liverpool Docks Committee regarding the use of Clarence Dock.[3]

1836 Dissolution of the Partnership between Daniel Horton and Richard Ashton, as Iron Boiler Manufacturers, at New Park-street (heretofore called Maid-lane), Southwark, by mutual consent, as from the 25th day of December instant; all debts owing from the said partnership will be discharged by the Daniel Horton, by whom alone the said business will in future be carried on.[4]

1837 Dissolution of the Partnership between Daniel Horton and Richard Ashton as Iron Boiler and Pan Manufactures, at Oil-street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster; Daniel Horton will in future carry on the said business[5]

Presumably succeeded by Horton and Son of Oil Street, and of Southwark.

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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Herald (London) - 3 January 1827
  2. 1829 London Post Office Directory
  3. Liverpool Mail, 7 January 1837
  4. The London Gazette 3 January 1837
  5. The London 2 January 1838