18th December 1852
Dissolution of partnership - The partnership heretofore subsisting between J. Furnival, G. Oxley, S.B. Taylor and S.C. Pears, under the title of Jacob Furnival and Co., was DISSOLVED by mutual consent on the 13th Instant. Jacob Furnival is the only person authorised to settle the affairs of the late Firm. December 18th 1852. (Staffordshire Advertiser, Friday 24th December 1852)
DEAR SIR, - It is with unmixed satisfaction that we, your workmen, receive you this evening as our guest.
There are few, if indeed any, amongst us, who have not at some period of our service received many kindnesses at your hands; and the hard experiences of adverse times are still too fresh to admit of our forgetting the open hand which then relieved the necessities of many of our number.
Prompted by feelings which the remembrance of good actions should ever evoke, we have prepared the present entertainment to which, with your friends, we bid you a hearty welcome ...
But while we avail ourselves of the present opportunity to demonstrate our regard, we are also desirous to testify it in some way more lasting than the memory of the few short hours which we shall spend together this evening.
We, therefore, beg your kind acceptance of this Silver Cup, which is now presented you by one of your oldest workmen. Receive it with our sincere good wishes, and let it be a pledge of our mutual desire to cherish that good will which it must ever be the interest of both master and man to cultivate."
(Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial & General Advertiser - Saturday, 22nd November 1856)
The report of the Surveyor, with regard to certain building notices, was adopted on the motion of Mr VERNON, seconded by Mr HITCHIN. - Among the notices was one from Messrs. Jacob Furnival and Co., of Cobridge, for a range of new workshops and a slip-house chimney twenty yards high.
(Staffordshire Advertiser, 8th August 1857)