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From: "Bryan Mawer" <>
Subject: Re: [SOG] Sugar Refiners
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:07:55 +0100


Geoff

Neither my database nor my interest are restricted solely to "sugar
refiners", for they often go under such titles as 'sugarbaker' and 'sugar
boiler'. I am also including others in the trade such as scum boilers,
treacle boilers, as well as sugar merchants, brokers, dealers, factors,
importers, etc. It is actually quite difficult to separate them anyway,
particularly in Scotland where a group of businessmen, maybe a ship owner,
an importer, and a property owner, would set up a sugar refining company in
their names, but employ a German sugarbaker to run the refinery for
them....in that case all the names are listed as individuals, with the
company name alongside.

The sugar would have been imported in hogs-heads as coarse brown sugar, but
would have been sold only after going through a lengthy refining process. I
suppose the sugar merchants could have been involved both before and after
the refining took place.

With respect to Bristol, the database at www.sugarbakers.co.uk has 63
entries for that city, and I have a further 37 entries (from Sketchley's
Bristol Directory 1775) to be uploaded soon, but I'm afraid the names
WEDMORE & CATCHPOLE don't appear amongst them. I will keep my eyes open for
them in the future.
Perhaps there is a reader out there who has a Bristol directory to hand who
could help us both ?

Bryan.

Bryan Mawer, Wellingborough, UK - www.mawer.clara.net
Researching: ALMEROTH, sugar refiners, MAWER

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