Other Manchester Registrations: A to I
B WHALLEY ASHWELL & Co
Benjamin Whalley Ashwell (1851-1916) was born in Birmingham. He moved to Cheadle Hulme near Manchester in mid-life and worked as an East India shipping merchant.
20 MAY 1884
Design Number
7183
Image
photo by Thomas Joyce
GEORGE COOKE
From the census of 1871 this could be a George Cooke born circa 1841 who was working as a bookkeeper in the Regent Road area of Salford. Therefore he could be connected to the Regent Road Glass Works. Alternatively there was another George Cooke born 1828, a brass pattern maker, who was living in Salford in 1881.
13 DECEMBER 1878
Design Number
330326
An ornamental design drawn on the centre of what looks like an oval plate.
HENRY DERBYSHIRE
Not connected to the Derbyshire family of glass manufacturers. There was another Derbyshire family of glass merchants in the centre of Manchester. They were believed to be involved with windows, mirrors and plumbing.
18 JANUARY 1890
Design Number
142434
A very simple circular item with a hole in the middle - looks like a small cotton reel.
EDWIN HENRY DOWNS
Born in Stoke on Trent, EH Downs (c1836 - 1888) was a glass and china merchant associated with glass factories in Salford as well as being a hotel owner in Bolton. He became a freemason in 1868. His two registrations here for tumblers were typical of what other Manchester factories such as Percival & Vickers were producing at this period in time. In the latter 1870s, Downs took over the factory of John Derbyshire in Salford, the Regent Road Flint Glass Works. He went bankrupt in early 1881 thanks to property transactions that went against him. Two registrations from that company can be found under the section for the Derbyshires.
7 JANUARY 1870
Design Number
237893
A heavy looking glass goblet with two rows of horizontal circular facets.
14 NOVEMBER 1873
Design Number
278292
A tumbler with two rows of horizontal circular facets - looks very similar to Percival & Vickers registrations around this date.
ABRAHAM FITTON
Not found on the census but in 1881 there is a Charles Fitton working at the Regent Road Glass Works in Salford.
20 JANUARY 1880
Design Number
345451
Described as a daylight reflector, this looks like a pair of drawn curtains!
J GILL & E RAWLINSON
Can't find either of these guys on the census.
19 OCTOBER 1878
Design Number
327771
Described as a glass beer bottle, this is a simple design.
SAMUEL GRATRIX JNR & BROTHER
This is almost certainly a lead merchant from the Manchester area. His father was a Justice of the Peace. This seems to have turned in to a glass merchant business called "Samuel Gratrix Ltd" at some point, and it lasted a very long time. The business was still visible on a 1963 directory of Manchester, based in the Trafford Park area.
7 MARCH 1882
Design Number
378063 to 378065
Various ornamented rectangular panels. One has the word "smoke room" on it and the general impression is that it could be a design for windows on a Victorian building, maybe a public house.
HENRY H HUNT
Henry (b1862) was a Flint Glass Works Manager on the 1911 census, living in the Bradford Road area of Manchester. He married Annie Kidd, the child of Joseph Kidd (glass manufacturer) and Mary Haworth. Therefore connected to the firm of Thomas Kidd & Co. in Manchester.
10 DECEMBER 1907
Design Number
517385
Looks like a lemon juicer
Image
photos by J-B Nizan
RICHARD F ISHERWOOD
Likely to be Richard Isherwood, born circa 1834 in Warrington. In 1891 he was listed as a glass manufacturer at 12 Clough Street, north Manchester. 14 Clough Street was listed as a glass house on the census.
8 APRIL 1903
Design Number
408211
Looks like a tall thin wine glass sitting in a chamber pot. Maybe a flower stand.
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