William Banks
The Coneybury or Broseley Bottom Coal furnace, located on the Broseley Hall estate, north-east of Broseley probably began to operate in 1786–7
By 1800 William Banks and John Onions operated the works, as Banks and Co., along with a foundry west of Church Street
1803 Banks died
1806 'NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between the late WILLIAM BANCKS, deceased, the underfigned JOHN ONIONS, and the undersigned THOMAS BANCKS, in an Iron Work at Brierley, in the County of Stafford, and carried on since the Death of the said William Bancks, deceased, by the said John Onions, Thomas Bancks, and the undersigned William Bancks, Son of the said William Bancks, deceased (which said Thomas Bancks and William Bancks are joint Executors of the said William Bancks, deceased) under the Firm of WILLIAM BANCKS and COMPANY, was this Day dissolved by mutual Confent as witness our Hands this 24th Day of June 1806, JOHN ONIONS, THOMAS BANOKS, WILLIAM BANCKS. Witness to the Signing, EDWARD HARPER junior.'[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Monday 1 September 1806