Krauss and Bebbington
of Gaythorn, Manchester
Size manufacturers
1836 'Melancholy Case of Drowning — On Sunday last, Mr. James Krauss, of the firm Krauss and Bebbington, size manufacturers, Gaythorn, near Manchester, lost his life whilst bathing in a reservoir at the Grove Print Works, near Cheadle. It appeared that a family meeting having been arranged to dine with the father who lives on the premises, they had assembled for that purpose, and that about five o'clock in the afternoon, they left the house to enjoy a walk in the gardens and pleasure grounds. The day being exceedingly hot, the deceased intimated his desire to bathe, and having importuned a friend in vain to join him, he retired from the party and plunged into the water. Having swam about fifty yards, his friend observed him to sink and then to rise; hut he almost immediately afterwards disappeared never again to rise alive. An alarm was instantly given, and his agonized friends hastened to the spot; but every assistance that could be suggested or adopted was in vain, for the body was not found until five o'clock on Monday morning, it being found necessary to obtain a boat in consequence of the great depth of water. Mr. Krauss was 29 years of age, and had but recently been married. ….'[1]
1836 Death notice: 'On the 1st inst., aged 29 years, Mr. James Krauss, size-manufacturer, youngest son of Mr. John Krauss, sen., of Cheadle, Cheshire, late of this town.' [2]