John Edward Barnard and Co
1853 Partnership change. '... the partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Edward Barnard and William Jowlings, as Woollen Manufacturers and Merchants, at Holcombe and Lightpill Mills, near Stroud, in the county of Gloucester, under the firm of John Edward Barnard and Company, was, on the 1st day of August, 1853, duly dissolved by mutual consent; and that all debts due to and owing by the said late partnership will be received and paid by the undersigned, John Edward Barnard, of Kingswood Mills, near Wotton-under-Edge, in the said county, who has taken to the partnership property and debts, and .who is authorised to wind up the affairs of the said late copartnership...'[1]
1858 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Barnard and John Edward Barnard, in the trade or business of Woollen Cloth Manufacturers, carried on at the Abbey and Langford Mills, in the parish of Kingswood, in the county of Gloucester, under the style or firm of J. E. Barnard and Company, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[2]
Became Roberts, Jowlings and Co