Isaac Walker 1842-1905 (Blackley, Manchester)

[Steve1982]

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

[MaxD]

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

[Steve1982]

Oh really? Is there a link at all? Thanks a lot! 

[MaxD]

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

[Steve1982]

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?

[MaxD]

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