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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: Steve1982 on Thursday 19 October 17 09:33 BST (UK)
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Hi there, looking for any information or photographs of Isaac Walker (my 3rd great grandfather) He was born in Blackley, Manchester in 1842 and was the owner of a cream/milk production business. I have the census information of the places he lived. Any help would be much appreciated. Steve
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If he is the one in Red Bank in 1880/81 there are three newspaper reports of milk supplied to him by farmers being tested and found to have been containing water. The farmers were the ones that were penalised.
MaxD
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Oh really? Is there a link at all? Thanks a lot! :)
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The reports are in the newspaper collection of the British Library which I can access via Findmypast. A link won't work unless you have a sub to that site.
Suggest you either take out a sub (you can get credits for £6.95) or see if your local library has a library sub to the British Library newspapers or FindMyPast. There were two reports in the Manchester Times (one was duplicated in the Courier) 13 March 1880 and 3 December 1881.
MaxD
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That is great thank you, I have taken out a sub on Find My Past and seen the articles :) I don't suppose there were business directories back then was there?
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http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/search/collection/p16445coll4/searchterm/Manchester!north%20west%20england!1880-1889/field/all!region!period/mode/exact!exact!exact/conn/and!and!and/order/period/ad/asc
Try here.
MaxD