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George Henry Birkbeck

Started:
Pre 1863
Finished:
Post 1867
Registered office:

Not known

Oil works:
Plaskynaston Oil Works

The firm of George Henry Birkbeck is listed in the 1868 Slater's trade directory as having works at Padeswood. The 1880 edition of Slater's trade directory lists G.H. Birkbeck at proprietor of Coppa Oil Works.

George Henry Birkbeck of Coppa Park, Flintshire was elected to the Institute of Civil Engineers on 7th March 1843.

  • Newspaper references

      • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED:
      BIRKBECK, Geo, Henry., Southampton-buidings, Chancery-la, and Adolphe WEX, Victoria-rd, Hornsey Rise, as mnfrs of mineral oil, at Coppa, nr. Mold - 24th Aug.

      Perry's Bankrupt Gazette, 26th September 1863

      .......

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED:.
      BIRKBECK George Henry and James Francis Braidwood, mineral oil refiners, Padeswood, in Mold, 22d Aug.

      Perry's Bankrupt Gazette; 21st September 1867

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