Marchinton Brothers
of Bruce Works, 72 Bridge Street, Sheffield
Machinists and screw manufacturers.
1854 – John Moreton Marchinton and James Marchinton took over the Bruce Works in Bridge Street, formerly occupied by Joseph Ashforth and Co (who moved to Mowbray Street naming their new works Bruce Works – so two Bruce Works co-existed). The Marchinton brothers were Joseph Ashforth’s stepsons and later information indicates that Ashforth owned the Bridge Street works.
1854 – "Marchinton Brothers (successors to Joseph Ashworth and Co). Manufacturers of all kinds of screws, bolts and washers, for carpenters and machinists; improved screw plates, stocks, taps and dies, copying presses, screw jacks, press screws, ratchet drills and railway wrenches; Mull, Jenny, Billy and loom spindles. Bruce Works, Sheffield." [1]
26 Dec 1854 - James Marchinton married Anna Elizabeth Makin, daughter of William Makin, steelmaker of Attercliffe
1855 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, John Moreton Marchinton and James Marchinton, carrying on business together as Manufacturers of Screws, Spindles, and other articles, in Sheffield, in the county of York, under the firm of Marchinton, Brothers, hath been dissolved by mutual consent, as and from the 30th day of June last. All debts due and owing by the said firm will be received and paid by the said John Moreton Marchinton, by whom the business will hereafter be carried on...'[2] The firm continued to be known as Marchinton Brothers; James went on to be a partner in William Makin and Sons.
1855 – Patent no 1231 of 1855 - William Arthur Henry, of the firm Marchinton Brothers, of Bruce Works, Bridge Street, Sheffield, machinists, &c., for the invention of " improvements in vices, and in the mode of securing the same to work-benches." [3] [4] Patent void in 1862 due to no payment of stamp duty. [5]
1855 – Patent no 2130 of 1855 - John Moreton Marchinton, of the firm of Marchinton Brothers, of Bruce Works, Sheffield, in the county of York, Machinists, &c. “Improvements in the construction of vices.” [6] [7] Patent void in 1858 due to no payment of stamp duty. [8]
1856-1857 - Marchinton Brothers, steel, file, spindle, screw, bolt, washer, press screw, copying machine, etc. manufacturers. Bruce Works, 72 Bridge Street.[9] [10]
By 1859 Marchinton Brothers had ceased trading and the Bridge Street Works had reverted to Joseph Ashforth and Co. [11]
John Moreton Marchinton later entered into business again trading as J. M. Marchinton at the Washington Works, Hunslet Road, Leeds, as agricultural engineers. He died in 1879.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Advert in Sheffield Independent - 14 Oct 1854, p5
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:26 October 1855 Issue:21804 Page:3971
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date: 25 September 1855 Issue:21789 Page: 3566
- ↑ English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1855, 1225 - 1292
- ↑ The London Gazette - 6 Jun 1862
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date: 5 October 1855 Issue:21793 Page:3686
- ↑ English Patents of Inventions, Specifications, 1855, 2130 - 2200
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:5 November 1858 Issue:22197 Page:4714
- ↑ White's Directory of Sheffield 1856
- ↑ White's Directory of Sheffield 1857
- ↑ advert for workmen, Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 16 July 1859