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Offline Mabel Bagshawe

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Re: William Whitakers wife
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 16 January 19 21:33 GMT (UK) »
this might be of interest https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4592315/4592319/20/

Legal notice top right hand corner reagrding the partnership of John Evan Powell, Robert Jones Powell and John Whitaker, Engineers, Agricultural Implement Makers, and Iron and Brass Founders of Cambrian Iron Works, Wrexham. JOhn was leaving, to be replaced by William. Dated 1886/7

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Re: William Whitakers wife
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 16 January 19 22:02 GMT (UK) »
I think John was one of the founders about 1878, they were a well known company, their old premises in Wrexham is now a bar called the Ironworks.
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