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Isaac Horton

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Isaac Horton of West Bromwich (also of London?), steam engine boiler maker

c.1785 Born

1825 Isaac Horton was recorded as a boiler maker in West Bromwich[1]

1829 Dissolution of the Partnership between Daniel Horton, Isaac Horton, and John Partridge, lately carrying on the trade of Coal-Masters, at the Ebenezer Colliery, in the Parish of West-bromwich, in the County of Stafford, under the firm of Hortons and Partridge, as relates to the said John Partridge; Daniel Horton and Isaac Horton would settle all debts.[2]

1832 Death "On the 28th ult., Isaac Horton, Esq., of Westbromwich, aged 46."[3]

1833 HORTON.. ..Gasometer .. Manufacturer, begs to inform his Friends and the Public, that the business formerly conducted his Father, the late Mr. Isaac Horton, at West Bromwich, and since his decease by himself[4]

1836 Thos. Whitehouse, of Westbromwich, currier, & Daniel Horton, of New Park-street, Southwark, engine boiler maker, executors of Isaac Horton, late of Westbromwich, engine boiler maker, deceased[5]

By October 1836 Benjamin Whitehouse had taken over the business.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1825 Pigot's Directory Birmingham
  2. London Gazette 16 June 1829
  3. Leamington Spa Courier 04 February 1832
  4. Aris's Birmingham Gazette 11 November 1833
  5. Perry's Bankrupt Gazette 23 July 1836