Molineaux, Webb and Co
of Kirby-street, Canal-street, Ancoats, Manchester (1842)
1820s: A number of Warrington glassmen moved to the Ancoats area of Manchester to set up new glass businesses.
1827 The company Maginnis, Molineaux, and Company opened at Kirby Street, Ancoats. The founders were William Maginnis, Thomas Molineaux, Boulton Molineaux, Owen Ellis and Thomas Webb
1830 Advert: 'MAGINNIS, MOLINEUX and CO., Manufacturers of Flint Glass, beg to express their grateful acknowledgments to the Gentry and Public of Manchester, for the very liberal encouragement given to their Manufactory during the past year, and to assure them that neither talent or attention will be wanting (in introducing new and elegant designs, in the most modern Style,) to cultivate their future favours. They beg also respectfully to announce to Silk Throwsters, Doublers of Fine Cotton Twist, &c, that they may he supplied with CANE and other GLASS, for the purposes of Machinery, the utility of which has decided preference to any thing before used.
Manchester Glass Works, Kirby-street, Canal-street, Ancoats, Jan. 1st, 1830.' [1]
1831 Partnership change. '... the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, carrying on the trade of Glass-Manufacturers, at Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, under the firm of Maginnia, Molineaus, and Company, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as relates to the said William Maginnis. All debts owing to of by the said Copartnership will be received and paid by Thomas Molineaux, Owen Ellis, Thomas Webb, and Boulton Molineaux, the remaining Partners, by whom the business will be carried on in future...'[2]
1842 Molineaux and Webb were Flint glass manufacturers
1848 The business became Molineaux, Webb, and Company
1851 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Thomas Webb and David Wilkinson, and the late Thomas Molineaux, as Glass Manufacturers, at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of Molineaux, Webb, and Co. was dissolved by the death of the said Thomas Molineaux, on the 27th day of July last. All debts due to or owing by the said late concern will be received and paid by the said Thomas Webb and David Wilkinson...'[3]
1860 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership subsisting between us the undersigned, carrying on business at Manchester, as Flint Glass Manufacturers, under the style of Molineaux, Webb, and Company, was dissolved on the 31st day of December last, by the retirement of the undersigned Thomas Webb. The business from that time has been, and will, for the future, be carried on by the undersigned, David Wilkinson and Thomas George Webb, under the said style of Molineaux, Webb, and Company...'[4]
After several changes of name and leadership the company was controlled by the Webb family from the 1860s.
WWI: Gave up production of tableware; concentrated on lighting, chemical and medical goods[5].
1929 The company went into liquidation, and passed out of the hands of the Webbs soon afterwards.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 9 January 1830
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:16 August 1831 Issue:18837 Page:1663
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:23 December 1851 Issue:21275 Page:3553
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:13 January 1860 Issue:22345 Page:132
- ↑ Glass-Making in England, by H. J. Powell
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