Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
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Abraham Seville and Co
From Graces Guide
Abraham Seville and Co started business in 1821 in Mumps, Oldham as roller makers for textile machinery.
1827 Partnership change. '...the Copartnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Abraham Seville, Joseph Bradbury, and Robert Kenworthy, as Cotton Spinners, at Mumps, within Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, trading under the firm of Abraham Seville and Company, was this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[1]
Became Seville and Woolstenhulme