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1778 ATKINSON & Co

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THE CLOSE

1778 FORSTER & Co
1787-90 FORSTER, RANKIN & ATKINSON
1795 FORSTER Joseph
1801 RANKIN & WALTON
1811 DOUBLEDAY & EASTERBY

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BROAD CHARE

1790- 1801 RUDMAN, CLARK, CARR & Co
1795 RUDMAN James & Co
1805-7 RUDMAN, CAR & Co

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HILLGATE, Gateshead

1787-9 HEWITSON, SAINT, ORMSTON & Co
1790 HEWITSON, ORMSTON & Co

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NEWCASTLE upon TYNE

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Quote - "There is a sugar refinery in Newcastle, but they had to admit that
             they have by no means reached the state of perfection found in London."
 

 

The First Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne (1778) shows 2 sugarhouses - Atkinson's on Quayside and Forster's on The Close, but I have not yet found evidence of when they actually began.
There appears to have been 4 sugarhouses in total, though no more than 3 running at any one time during the short life of the trade there, and no mention of sugar refining in the 1820s directories.

There was a link to Bristol, which might indicate the precarious nature of the Newcastle trade. Robert Rankin was working in Newcastle from about 1790 through into the very early 1800s, however he is listed as also working in Bristol from about 1796 along with a Thomas Rankin also of Newcastle. He appears to have run 5 or 6 different sugarhouses in Bristol from 1796 to 1811 and is mentioned in the Bristol Burgesses in 1827. Like a number of Bristol refiners, Robert Rankin was a Non-Conformist - a Unitarian - and an Abolitionist. Along with fellow Newcastle refiner Robert Ormston, a Quaker, he was a member of the 1791 Anti-Slavery Committee. (1)

John MacComb (1789) and George Rosenbohm (1820), both listed as sugar boilers, were mentioned in deeds ... the first regarding the sale of land in Gateshead for a proposed new stone bridge over the Tyne, the second regarding a lease for two ninths of an estate at Elswick. (2)

1. "Hidden Chains - the Slavery Business and the North East England 1600-1865" by John Charlton, Tyne Bridge Pub, 2008.
2. Tyne & Wear Archives - DF.OX/12/2 & PU.NC/3/1/11.
 

 

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