Howell and Knapman
of 206-207 High Street, Exeter
Drapers
formerly R. Howell
1855 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, carrying on business as Linen Drapers, at No. 206, and Woollen Drapers at No. 204, High-street, Exeter, under the firm of Howell and Knapman, was dissolved...R. Howell and Edward Knapman'[1]
1864 Partnership change. '...Robert Howell, Edward Knapman, and William Brewer Howell, carrying on business at Nos. 206 and 207, High-street, Exeter, as Linen Drapers, Mercers, and Haberdashers, in partnership under the firm of Howell, Knapman, and Howell, hereby give notice that the said William Brewer Howell, has this day retired from the said partnership firm, and that the said partnership business will henceforth be carried on by the said Robert Howell and Edward Knapman only, under the firm of Howell and Knapman...'[2]
became Knapman and Co