Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
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Jacob Silcock
From Graces Guide
Ironfounder, of Manchester
1799 'Notice is hereby given, THAT the Copartnership Trade, lately carried on at the Old Foundery, Manchester, by Phoebe Fletcher and Jacob Silcock, (under the Firm of Phoebe Fletcher and Co) is legally Dissolved upon the 22d. Day October last, he the said Jacob Silcock having made an Assessment of all his Estate and Effects for the Creditors, as appears by a public Advertisement in Wheeler's Paper .......'[1]
1800 Listed as an iron founder, house 33 Red-bank.[2]