Walker, Kempson and Co
of Wellingborough
1884 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Edward St. Lawrence Walker, William Brown, William Chandler Wood, William Henry Stevens, and Benjamin Charles Bloxsom, in the businesses of Hosiery and Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and Merchants, and carried on at Leicester, partly under the style of Walker, Kempson, and Co., and partly under the style of Walker, Kempson, and Brown, is dissolved as from this 19th day of December, 1884, by mutual consent; and that in future the business of Hosiery Manufacturers and Merchants, will be carried on by the undersigned, Edward St. Lawrence Walker and William Chandler Wood, under, the style of Walker, Kempson, and Co., who will receive and pay all debts owing to or by the Hosiery Department of the said firm; and the business of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and Merchants, will be carried on by the undersigned, Edward St. Lawrence Walker, William Brown, and William Henry Stevens, under the style of Walker, Kempson, and Brown, who will receive and pay all debts owing to or by the Boot and Shoe Department of the said firm as heretofore....'[1]