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Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« on: Thursday 29 August 24 20:49 BST (UK) »
Hi, I am trying to find out some information about Thomas Smart & Co which was located in Stockwell Street, Glasgow. I have managed to find out some information. I know that the company was dissolved in 1879 and taken over by Charles Wregg (sometimes Wragg) a founder member of - or subscriber to -  the company. I have been unable to find out when the company was founded and what happened to it after the death of Charles Wregg/Wragg in 1911. I am also trying to establish for certain whether his son John Crawford Wregg/Wragg was employed at the company as well. Between approximately 1881 and 1894 John's occupation was given as a grain merchant. From 1895 until his death in 1944 he was a fishmonger/fish merchant in Ayr. It seems quite a change of occupation and I am wondering if something drastic happened to Thomas Smart & Co to necessitate such a change and  such a relocation.

I would be grateful for any information

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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 August 24 21:16 BST (UK) »
Have you checked Scottish PO Directories - I can see them at 4 Stockwell (Glasgow Directory 1872-73). It's a matter of working back.

Added - there 1869-70.

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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 August 24 21:26 BST (UK) »
For sale in 1892


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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 August 24 21:31 BST (UK) »
Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser
06 December 1841


Death of Thomas Smart, grain merchant, Glasgow.




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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 August 24 21:33 BST (UK) »
Glasgow Evening Post
12 March 1891

Transferred from Charles Wragg to Peter MacKenzie Wragg

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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #5 on: Friday 30 August 24 00:29 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for the very swift responses. Much appreciated. Rather intriguing that it states in the newspaper article, dated 1892, that the business is up for sale "...owing to the death of the proprietor". Charles Wregg/Wragg died in January 1911 at the age of 87 from "Senile Debility". Peter Mackenzie Wragg (1860-1943) was Charles' son, so the passing on of the business to him makes perfect sense - the date perhaps less so. I will continue digging.

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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #6 on: Friday 30 August 24 08:21 BST (UK) »
Thomas Smart
Scotland's People, Valuation Rolls
I searched Smart, Lanark, Stockwell Street


1855
Thomas Smart is tenant/occupier of four properties:
shop, 4 Stockwell Street, [proprietor Thomas Blyth]
stable and cart house, 39 Stockwell Street, [proprietor Rev. Thomas Russell]
stable, 39 Stockwell Street, [proprietor John Macallister
cellar, 39 Stockwell Street, [proprietor proprietor Rev. Thomas Russell]

There are a total of 12 separate properties listed for no. 39, of which five are owned by John  Macallister, the other seven by the Rev. Thomas Russell. These have a range of descriptions encompassing and combining terms such as house, yard, stable, counting house and coffee house.


1865
Thomas Smart is tenant and occupier of four properties
shop, 4 Stockwell Street [Thomas Blyth]]
stable and hay loft, 39 Stockwell Street [Rev John Archibald Dow]
cartshed, 39 Stockwell Street [John Macallister]
store no. 63/7 Stockwell Street [Thomas Pilling]

1875
Thomas Smart is tenant and occupier of one property
shop, 4 Stockwell Street [Mrs Mary Blyth]

1885, no results
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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #7 on: Friday 30 August 24 08:37 BST (UK) »
12 February 1879: North British Daily Mail
Not sure that I fully understand this: is the implication that Smart, Wragg and Blyth were subscribers/partners? Note that in my previous reply the proprietor of 4 Stockwell Street in 1855 and 1865 was Thomas Blyth, but by 1875 it was Mrs Mary Blyth.

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Re: Thomas Smart & Co, Grain Merchants, Glasgow
« Reply #8 on: Friday 30 August 24 09:12 BST (UK) »
Glasgow Directories

1833-34
Smart Thomas, Victualler, 4 Stockwell

1826