Blackmore and Lapworth
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]
1881 Alfred George Lapworth was a carpet dealer living in London. Henry James Lapworth was a carpet factor living in London. George Frederick Lapworth was living on dividend income in Steyning.