Union Rolling Mill Co
of Birmingham
1836 Concerning a patent. '... in the county of Warwick, merchant, assignee of a patent granted to Alexander Stocker and William Southwood Stocker, both formerly of the Union Rolling Mills, Birmingham, machinists, for "various improvements in machinery for manufacturing iron and other tips for heels and toes of shoes;, chain links, and other articles," bearing date at Westminster the 22d day of October 1832, has petitioned His Majesty's Solicitor-General for leave to disclaim the various parts separately of which the machinery described in the specification of the said patent is composed...'[1]
1845 Partnership change. '...'the Partnership, heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Daniel Ledsam, Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Charles Henry Capper, Matthew Dixon, John Marrian, John Reynolds, Ambrose Warner, William Steel, Robert Walter Winfield, and William Potts, carrying on business at Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, as Metal Rollers, under the style or firm of the Union Rolling-mill Company, was this day dissolved, so far as concerns the. said Ambrose Warner and William Steel:...'[2]
1864 Company dissolved. '...the Copartnership or Joint Trade heretofore existing and carried on under the style or firm of The Union Rolling Mill Company, at Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, was this day dissolved by a resolution of the Proprietors, passed in conformity with the Deed of Copartnership of the said Company.— As witness our bands this 23rd day of June, 1864. R. W. Winfield. William Potts. John Marrian. J. Ledsam, F. G. Ledsam, Wm. Ledsam, J. Goddington Ledsam, Charles Couchman, Executors of the late Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq.'[3]