can anyone help please

[tankie one]

hello fellow researchers.request info on the business operation, run by a edward denman tailor of high street eton. who employed 15 persons at one time. he retired to somerset, this was in the 1800s thanks JAMES

[keldon]

This is the announcement of the closing of a partnership between Edward Denham and Henry Goddard. Try the London Gazette for any further references.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25189/pages/293

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/search

A couple of newspaper articles on the first page of results may be worth following up. I haven't looked at the rest, or tried variations on the search.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=denman%20%2bgoddard%20%2beton

[tankie one]

thanks keldon for reply. i do have info from newspaper,am looking for information on how this individual got started in the first place, understanding he came from lopen in somerset and his father was an agricultural labourer. does this give a better picture on things ?

[Christine in Herts]

If he got into tailoring, then you probably need to be looking for apprenticeship records. The name of the person who paid for his indentures could also give you another line of resarch to see why - unless it was something to do with the Parish wanting to get him off their books... but that would also give you something to go on.

Christine