Timeline
1790s
Thomas Webb & Thomas Molineaux baptised in Warrington
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1824
Warrington glass company Perrin & Geddes dissolved
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1826
Thomas Molineaux, Boulton Molineaux, Owen Ellis, William Maginnis and Thomas Webb lease land in Ancoats
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1827
Company opens for business as Maginnis, Molineaux & Co.
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1831
William Maginnis leaves partnership
Company renamed Molineaux, Webb, Ellis & Co.
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1834
Thomas Molineaux, Boulton Molineaux, Owen Ellis, and Thomas Webb buy further freehold land in Ancoats
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c1835
Likely start of pressed glass production
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1838
Thomas Molineaux, Boulton Molineaux, Owen Ellis, and Thomas Webb buy further freehold land in Ancoats
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1839
Death of Owen Ellis, his interest now represented by wife Mary
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1842
Thomas Molineaux, Boulton Molineaux, Mary Ellis, and Thomas Webb buy further freehold land in Ancoats
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1843
First documented reference to pressed glass production
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1845
Glass Tax Repealed
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1846
Company registers its first design
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1848
Boulton Molineaux & Mary Ellis leave the partnership
Company renamed Molineaux, Webb & Co.
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1851
Death of Thomas Molineaux
Molineaux & Webb display at the Great Exhibition and win a bronze medal
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1857
Thomas Webb, son Thomas George Webb, and business partner David Wilkinson buy further freehold land in Ancoats
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1858-1859
National Glass Strike
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1859
Thomas Webb retires, company handed to Thomas George Webb and David Wilkinson
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1860s
First known company patents applied for
Company stopped using London glass agents and ran its own showroom around the Hatton Garden area
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1864
Mass registration of company designs starts
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1873
Death of Thomas Webb
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1875
Most famous company design registered - black sphinx paperweight
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1879
Death of Boulton Molineaux
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1885
First of several decorative posy troughs registered
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1887
Thomas George Webb retires and hands the company to his son, Duncan Webb
Molineaux & Webb becomes a public listed company
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1901
Death of Thomas George Webb
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1918
Duncan Webb transfers shares to his son Duncan Webb Junior, who becomes chairman
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1927
Receiver appointed as the company struggles with debt
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1928
Last design registered
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1929
Company liquidated
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1936
Death of Duncan Webb
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1947
Death of Duncan Webb Junior
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1977
Pamela Webb, daughter of Duncan Webb Junior, sells company pattern book and family glass pieces at London auction
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2008
Pamela Webb bequeaths further family glass pieces to the Manchester Art Gallery on her death