Daniel Longworth of Little Lever, Bleacher

Daniel Longworth Family Tree

Also beneficiary and one of the executors of his father's will, John Longworth of Heaton, 1813

1811 Partnership Between Thomas Hardcastle & Daniel Longworth

The Growth of the British Cotton Trade, 1780-1815
By Michael M. Edwards p195

In October 1811, undaunted, [Thomas] Hardcastle embarked on another adventure when he became a sleeping partner with Daniel Longworth, a Bolton bleacher. Hardcastle installed Longworth in a bleachworks and agreed to supply sufficient capital to maintain it in good working order.  He was determined to recoup some of the money he claimed to have lost in his previous partnership.  He demanded 'a clear annual rent of £600 for the use of the bleaching works and machinery', and 5 per cent interest on the capital he advanced to the firm.  Hardcastle was again unlucky.  After only a few months Longworth was accuesed of 'using £3,000 of the partnership monies for his own purposes in fitting up a new bleachworks in Little Lever'.

Reference: P.R.O. P.L.6/107, 1811

1816 Dissolution of Hardcastle and Longworth, Bleachers

Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 17 December 1816

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Thomas Hardcastle and Daniel Longworth, of Firwood-within-Tonge, in the counrt of Lancaster, bleachers, was on the thirtieth day of October last, dissolved by mutual consent.  The bleaching business at Firwood aforesaid, will be carried on in future by the said Thomas Hardcastle; as witness our hands, this fifth day of December 1816:-
THOS. HARDCASTLE,
DANL. LONGWORTH

The Partnership between myself and Mr. Thomas Hardcastle, as bleachers, at Firwood, under the firm Hardcastle and Longworth was dissolved by mutual consent, on the thirtieth day of October last, and Mr. John Wood, of King-street, Manchester, public accountant, has been legally appointed by us to receiv, adjust, and settle all accounts due and owing, by and to the said late Partnership concern.

I beg leave to add my sincere Thanks, for the very liberal encouragement afforded by our Friends to that concern.  I have now established myself in the Bleaching business, at Lever Bank, near Bolton, with new Machinery, and on the most improved plan, which I flatter myself to bleach at equal if not superior to any other House in the trade, and shall be happy in the continuance of a share of their future commands.

I remain your most obedient,
And obliged humble servant,
DANIEL LONGWORTH
Managing Partner to the late Concern of
Hardcastle and Longworth

The Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20

By J. Pigot & Co

p333

Longworth Daniel, 40, High-street; Lever-bank, near Bolton

1819 Bankruptcy of Daniel Longworth of Little Lever

Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 20 July 1819

WHEREAS a commission of bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against Daniel Longworth and William Sudren, of Little Lever, in the county of Lancaster, bleachers, dealers, chapmen and co-partners, and the being declared bankrupts, are hereby required to surrender themselves to the commissioners in the said commission named, or the major part of them, on the second, third, and twenty-fourth days of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on each of the said days, at the Star Inn, in Manchester, in the said county, and make a full discovery and disclosure of their estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and the second sitting to choose assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupts are required to finish their examination, and the creditors are to assent or dissent from the allowance of their certificate.  All persons indebted to the said bankrupts, or that have any of their effects, are not to pay or deliver the same, but to whom the commisioners shall appoint, but give notice to Messrs. Milne and Parry, Solicitors, Temple, London; or to Messrs. Halstead and Ainsworth, Solicitors, Manchester

1819 Auction of Bleaching Machinery & Equipment from Lever Banks

Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 07 September 1819

To be SOLD by AUCTION
By MR. CLARKE
By order of the assignees of Daniel Longworth and William Sudren, bankrupts, on Friday next the 10th of September, at the works of the said Daniel Longworth, situate at Lever Bank, near Bolton;

A Quantity of MACHINERY, and Bleaching Utensils, Timber, &c. large lot of muslin boards, wrappers and pack sheets, sixteen casks containing salt and manganees, five casks of manganees, ashes, oil, glue, spirits sales, &c &c- Also a quantity of excellent Hay.

The sale to commence precisely at two o'clock in the afternoon - For further particulars apply to the Auctioneer, No. 2, King-street; or to Messrs. Halstead and Ainsworth, Solicitors, Essex-street, Manchester

1830 Sale of Bleachworks in Little Lever

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 20 February 1830

1847 OS Map Showing Lever Banks Bleach Works

Map of Lever Bleach Works, Little Lever