Parkin & Marshall / William Parkin & Company Ltd
In directories, the establishment date was stated as 1770 or 1778. The roots lay in Smith & Moorhouse. William Parkin (great-grandson of Josephus Parkin) acquired the assets and in 1845 took William Marshall into partnership. The latter died at his residence in South Street, Park, on 16 October 1852, aged 45, from ‘liver inflammation’. A Methodist at Scotland Street Chapel, his unconsecrated burial was in the General Cemetery. Parkin was partnered by Henry Beauvoisin until 1854, ....
