Norfolk Mills - Norfolk Millwrights

Norfolk
Millwrights

Norfolk County

Norwich
Small firms & self employed millwrights

1 John Courteney to 1687
2 Thomas Bateman -1706 to 1710
3 Thomas Nickless -1718 to 1726+
4 Robert Briggs snr -1723 to 1760
5 John Rayner -1726+
6 Francis Gooch -1731+
7 Richard Kittle -1760 to -1793
8 Robert Prick -1761+
9 Robert Briggs jnr -1761 to 1768.
10 William Wade to 1761
11 Joshua Hutchin to 1764
12 John Wooton to 1764
13 Henry Nixon -1768+
14 Benjamin Clark -1769+
15 Robert Peters to 1776
16 Nathaniel Lock -1779 to 1819
17 John Brown or Browne (1) -1782 to 1821+
18 Edward Cork -1783 to 1786+
19 John Stranglement -1783 to 1790
20 Benjamin Royall -1783 to 1803+
21 Cornelius Briggs Sr. -1786 to 1809
22 Munton -1793 to 1794+
23 James Lawter -1802+
24 William Mason. -1802+
25 James Banham -1806+
26 George Shafto -1808 to 1822
27 Cornelius Briggs Jr. -1809 to 1815
28 William Balls -1810 to 1833
29 James Fitt (1) -1810 to 1841+
30 James Palmer -1813+
31 John Wiseman -1818 to 1866
32 John Browne (2). -1819 to 1861+
33 Henry Lock 1819 to 1849+
34 John Fisher Gurling -1822 to 1827
35 William Thorold -1827 to 1851
36 John Stolworthy Buttifant -1827 to 1850
37 Christopher Southgate -1829 to 1848
38 William Ball -1830+
39 Robert Murry -1830 to 1832
40 William Cudbard -1830 to 1841
41 Charles Brett -1831 to 1848+
42 Samuel Gaze - 1832 to 1833
43 John Francis 1834 to 1843
44 Thomas Blyth 1834 to 1854+
45 Roger Hunt. -1836+
46 Thomas Howard -1836 to 1854
47 William Gaze Sr. -1836 to 1859
48 Daws -1839+
49 Richard Cudbard to 1840
50 John Cudbard 1840 to 1858
51 Charles Cudbard 1840 to 1879+
52 William Blyth -1841+
53 John Buckle Jr. -1841+
54 William Duffield -1841+
55 William Horrocks -1841+
56 John Partridge, Sr. -1841+
57 John Partridge, Jr. -1841+
58 Edward Riches -1841+
59 William Russell (1) -1841+
60 William Russell (2) -1841+
61 John Wiseman Jr. -1841+
62 Anthony Blyth -1841 to 1851+
63 John Buckle Sr. -1841 to 1851+
64 Samuel Gowen -1841 to 1851+
65 Richard Pratt sr -1841 to 1851+
66 Thomas William Wiseman -1841 to 1851+
67 Stephen Fulcher -1841 to 1854
68 William Fulcher (1) -1841 to 1856+
69 James Fitt (2) -1841 to 1861+
70 James Dobson -1841 to 1871+
71 Alfred Nobbs 1841+ to 1851+
72 Robert John Blyth -1842 to 1868+
73 Alfred Sparke -1842 to 1872
74 John Ferra Watson -1843 to 1848
75 James Campling -1843 to 1859
76 William Gaze Jr. 1843 to 1865
77 Richard Parkinson -1845+
78 Henry Cudbard to -1846
79 John Stamford -1848 to 1851+
80 Frederick Gregory Dann -1849 to 1881+
81 Francis Buttifant -1850+
82 John Gregory Buttifant -1850 to 1853
83 Phillip Keymer -1849 to 1871+
84 William Royall to -1851
85 John Aggus -1851+
86 Robert Browes -1851+
87 John Browne (3) -1851+
88 William Buttifant (1) -1851+
89 William Buttifant (2) -1851+
90 Robert Cobb -1851+
91 Robert Everson -1851+
92 John Fitt -1851+
93 Abraham Lansdelle Gaze -1851+
94 Sam Genings -1851+
95 James King -1851+
96 James Marton -1851+
97 Thomas Nunn -1851+
98 George Pickett -1851+
99 David F. Say -1851+
100 Michael Shaw -1851+
101 Thomas Steward -1851+
102 James Watts -1851+
103 Thomas Whiteman to -1851
104 David Thomas Buttifant -1851 to 1852+
105 Edward Brister -1851 to 1861+
106 Henry Tuttell or Tuttle -1851 to 1861+
107 Allison Wialdman or Wildman -1851 to 1861+
108 John Wright -1851 to 1862
109 John Norton Browne -1851 to 1871+
110 Nathaniel Eastaugh -1851 to 1871+
111 William Fulcher (2) -1851 to 1871+
112 George Harrison -1854+
113 Robert Tidman -1854 to 1878
114 Thomas Slack -1856+
115 Robert Wright -1856+
116 James Joseph Campling 1859 to 1879-
117 Richard Lansdelle Gaze 1860 to 1868
118 John Bean -1860 to 1871+
119 Robert Culling -1861+
120 Robert Greens -1861+
121 Samuel Gowing -1861+
122 Charles King -1861+
123 George Poynts or Points -1861+
124 Richard Pratt jnr. -1861+
125 Frederick Spurdens -1861+
126 Joseph S. Walker -1861 to 1881+
127 Edward Johnson -1861 to 1871+
128 Robert Johnson -1861 to 1881+
129 Robert King -1861 to 1881+
130 Thomas F. Brown -1862 to 1883+
131 William Buxton -1867 to 1871+
132 Jonathon Chamberlain -1868+
133 William Brooks -1871 to 1881+
134 Robert Campbell -1871+
135 Alfred W. Cook -1871+
136 William England -1871+
137 Walter Everett -1871+
138 James Fitt (3) -1871 to 1881+
139 Edward Howard -1871+
140 William King -1871+
141 Robert Meers -1871+
142 Charles Rust -1871+
143 Charles Statham -1871+
144 Isaac Youngman Ward -1871 to 1881+
145 George Kerrison -1871 to 1881+
146 Dennis Davy or Davey -1871 to 1883+
147 Christopher Rooks 1872+
148 Henry Cotman 1879 to 1887
149 James Langham 1879 to 1887+
150 George Dye -1881 to 1882
151 Edward Crow -1881 to 1884+
152 John Weston Jordan -1881 to 1886+
153 John T. Brockliss -1883 to 1887+
154 John T. Archer -1881+
155 John Atherton -1881+
156 John W. Churlaw -1881+
157 James King -1881+
158 Frank Knott -1881+
159 William Godbold -1881+
160 William Matthews -1881+
161 Jeremiah Keymer -1881+
162 Lambert Weir -1881+
163 Thomas Browne -1881+
164 John Buck -1881+
165 Thomas John Booth -1881+
166 John Barnes -1881+
167 Moses Manwaring -1881+
168 George Manwaring -1881+

Numbers in brackets denote different millwrights with the same name

A minus (-) indicates the first known reference to the mill and a plus (+) indicates the last known reference to the mill

Norwich
Large firms

1 Holmes & Sons 1827 to 1902
2 Riches & Watts 1829 to 1896+
3 Sabberton Bros 1847 to 1914+
4 Sturgess & Towlson -1868 to 1888+
5 Smithdale's of Norwich 1854 to 1887+

A minus (-) indicates the first known reference to the mill and a plus (+) indicates the last known reference to the mill

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