Trade Customers

Customer ‘Tradesmen Account’ Holders 1863‑1872

The relatively short list below may well be of Historical Interest to local families and historians.

The days have long gone whereby, in a large village, a variety of tradespersons existed. In the nineteenth and early 20th century there would be Carpenters, Cobblers, Ironmongers, Smiths, Millers, Bakers, Butchers, Wheelwrights and Thatchers to name a few. Certainly up to and just after the second World War there would probably be a Grocer, a Post Office, a Pub, a Parish Church and invariably a Baptist or Wesleyan / Methodist Chapel and a School. Nowadays to find a village with an active school, a shop, a pub and a Church (other than a Parish Church) is uncommon and certainly very few with the trades listed below.

The following all had, back in the 1860s and early 1870s, accounts with the Company. The year refers to the year of entry shown in the Accounts Book.

1863	Banbury, Lewis	Ironmonger	Stratton
1863	Berry, John	Ironmonger	Crediton
1863	Bevans, Richard	Shoemaker	Drewsteignton
1863	Cory, Richard	Smith	Northlew
1863	Edwards, John	Smith	Chulmleigh
1863	Gay, John	Wheelwright	Northlew
1863	Good, William	Ironmonger	Beer
1863	Gowman, Thomas	Currier	North Tawton
1863	Hatch, John	Shoemaker	Hatherleigh
1863	Oads, George	Shoemaker	South Zeal
1863	Orchard, Thomas	Timber Dlr	Tedburn St Mary
1863	Parrott, James	Wheelwright	Chagford
1863	Priston, John	Carpenter	Tedburn St Mary
1863	Reeds, William	Builder	Torrington
1863	Statt, John	Smith	Chagford
1864	Dewdney W.R.	Papermaker	Stoke ?
1866	Crump R.W.	Unknown Trade	Moretonhampstead
1866	Thorn & Sons	Saddler	Chagford
1866	Thorn & Tamlin	Ironmonger	North Tawton
1866	Vickery,William	Ironmonger	Bridport
1868	Adams, William	Wheelwright	Poltimore
1868	Godfrey, James	Ironmonger	Sidmouth
1868	Higgs, James	Draper	Holsworthy
1868	Palk, Sir Lawrence	Landowner	Haldon Ho:
1868	Tremlett R.	Smith	Silverton
1869	Bovey Tracey Pottery
1869	Mitchell, R.B.	Druggist	Chulmleigh
1870	Eddy J.	Smith	Kennford
1870	Holman, Robert	Shoemaker	South Zeal
1870	Squires, Francis	Smith	Dawlish
1871	Coming R.	Ironmonger	Thorverton
1871	Northcott, Richard	Ironmonger	Otterton
1871	Pitts, Frederick	?	Matford, Alphington
1871	Prideaux G.W.	Plumber	Dulverton
1871	Seymour & Bond	Ironmonger	Okehampton
1872	Burrows, John	Machine Mfr.	Broadclyst

July 2023
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