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1861 Dissolution of  the  Partnership  between Henry Blackmore, George Frederick  Lapworth,  Alfred  George  Lapworth,  and  Henry James  Lapworth,  lately  carrying  on  the  business of  Carpet Manufacturers,  at  Benden's-hall, near  Wilton, in the county of Wilts, under the  firm  of  Blackmore  and  Lapworth<ref>London gazette 17  December,  1861.</ref>
1861 Dissolution of  the  Partnership  between Henry Blackmore, George Frederick  Lapworth,  Alfred  George  Lapworth,  and  Henry James  Lapworth,  lately  carrying  on  the  business of  Carpet Manufacturers,  at  Benden's-hall, near  Wilton, in the county of Wilts, under the  firm  of  Blackmore  and  Lapworth<ref>London gazette 17  December,  1861.</ref>


1875 Henry Blackmore died in Torquay<ref>National probate calendar</ref>


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Revision as of 18:30, 30 November 2021

1828 Dissolution of the Copartnership between William Anthony Sarjeant, William Thring, Humphrey Blackmore, and Henry Blackmore, of Wilton, in the County of Wilts, and of No. 177, Piccadilly, in the City and Liberties of Westminster, Carpet-Manufacturers[1]

1835 Blackmores bought the remaining stock and looms of the Axminster carpet business and extended their business to include hand-knotted carpets, which were still called Axminsters.

1851 Henry Blackmore (b.1800) lived in Fugglestone St Peter, Wilton; he was unmarried; he was a carpet manufacturer in a firm of 2, employing 150 women and girls above the age of 13, 20 men and 30 boys[2]

1851 120 employees of Blackmore Brothers of Wilton visited the Great Exhibition. Blackmores had made the Windsor carpet exhibited by Prince Albert[3]

1854 Dissolution of the Partnership between Henry Blackmore and Humphrey Blackmore, of Fuggleston Saint Peter, in the county of Wilts, as Carpet Manufacturers[4]. Humphrey Blackmore died in Devon in 1877 without living children[5].

1861 Henry Blackmore (b.1800) lived in Fugglestone St Peter, Wilton; he was a carpet manufacturer employing 250 hands[6]

1861 Dissolution of the Partnership between Henry Blackmore, George Frederick Lapworth, Alfred George Lapworth, and Henry James Lapworth, lately carrying on the business of Carpet Manufacturers, at Benden's-hall, near Wilton, in the county of Wilts, under the firm of Blackmore and Lapworth[7]

1875 Henry Blackmore died in Torquay[8]

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Sources of Information

  1. London gazette 28 October 1828
  2. 1851 census
  3. The Times Sept. 11, 1851
  4. London gazette 11 August, 1854
  5. BMD
  6. 1861 census
  7. London gazette 17 December, 1861.
  8. National probate calendar