Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hi
I am trying to find out about a business set up in 1844/45. The partners were:Walter Fergus MacGregor
Charles Hodgson Horsfall
Benjamin Hick
The property is now listed as 575 Price Street, Birkenhead.
Has anyone got access to a business directory and could check what the firm did for me?
Also, if anyone knows of these gentlemen, could they share the info?
Thanks.

I think the business must have been an Ironfounders.

In the Gores 1843 Directory, the names you mentioned all worked for George Forrester & Co Ironfounders 40 Vauxhall Road.
They are all individually listed as Ironfounders at their respective addresses.

The next directory I have is 1860 and I couldn't find any of their names listed there or a business in Price Street, Birkenhead.

Cheers
Erika

If it is the same Benjamin Hick, he had a foundry or engineering business in Bolton, later Hick, Hargreaves. Bolton Library has material on them.
Horsfall, if it is he, had a shipbuilding yard in Liverpool.
The name Macgregor seems to ring a bell with Laird - later Cammell Laird.

Worth googling!
D

Thanks for the info

Erika,
Would it be possible to give me the page numbers for the 1843 and 1860 entries...thanks!!!!

Hi

Page numbers only for 1843, nothing in 1860

All on PDF under Directory for Liverpool & Environs

Charles H Horsfall Page 129/274
Dingle Lane, Toxteth Park
Mersey Steel and iron works, Sefton Street

Benjamin Hicks Page 122/274
14 Great Mersey Street

Walter F MacGregor Page 165/274
3 St George's Hill, Everton

Cheers
Erika

1853 Directory has
Geo Forrester & Co 40 Vauxhall Road under Millwrights

Can't find any of those names in Price Street