Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Peter Whitaker

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of Manchester

1793 Advert: 'APPRENTICE RUNAWAY. WHEREAS JOHN WROE, indentured Apprentice to Peter Whitaker, of Manchester, hath absented himself from his Master's Employment — He is a young Man about 19 Years of Age, is by Trade a Wood and Iron Turner, in the Machinery Bousiness. This is therefore to give Notice, that any Person employing the said John Wroe, after this Date, will be prosecuted as the Law directs. January 22d, 1793.' [1]

1794. Bankrupt. 'Peter Whitaker, now or late of Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine-Maker, Dealer and Chapmen' [2]


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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Mercury, 22 January 1793
  2. [1] Gazette Issue 13704 published on the 16 September 1794