Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Joshua Horton (1803-1872)

From Graces Guide

c.1803 Born in Brierly Hill[1]

1842 Maker of boilers, gas holders, sugar tanks, pans and retorts, of Brierley Hill[2]

1843 .... Joshua Horton, of Hart's-hill, in the parish of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, and Joseph Horton, of No. 5, St. Peter-street, Islington, in the county of Middlesex, but late of No. 29, Wharf-road, Wenlock-basin, in the county of Middlesex, Iron Manufacturers, lately trading in copartnership under the firm of Joshua Horton and Co , at the Lays New Iron Works, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the county of Stafford, against whom a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the 1st of August 1843, has been duly issued, to be holden at the District Court of Bankruptcy, at Birmingham, on the 12th day of December next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at which sitting any of the creditors of the said bankrupts may be heard against the allowance of such Certificate or Certificate[3]

1872 died in Warwickshire

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Sources of Information

  1. 1871 census
  2. Bentley's Directory of Worcestershire - Volume 2
  3. London Gazette 17 Nov 1843