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William Bartlett was a distiller and brandy merchant, at 12 Thomas Street, Temple, Bristol, c.1775-1804. He died in August 1804, leaving his estate to his two sons William Charles Bartlett and Joseph Bartlett. He was buried in St. Thomas's church in the grave of his late wife Sarah on 26 Aug. 1804.
Joseph Bartlett, son of William and Sarah, was baptised 2 April 1778 at St. Thomas's. He was a wine and brandy merchant, he died in 1801, he left money to his sister Ann Mogg and his share of the business to his brother William Charles.
William Charles Bartlett was a wine and brandy merchant in Welsh Back, Bristol. W. C. Bartlett died in November 1816. His wife Harriet intended to dispose of the business the following January. William Charles was the son of William and Sarah Bartlett and he was baptised in St. Thomas's on 18 Dec. 1770.
Joseph Bartlett was born in 1801 in Bristol, baptised 20 August 1801 at St. Nicholas, son of William Charles Bartlett and Harriet Emery who had married by license at Keynsham on 28 November 1799. Joseph married Emma, the second daughter of John Howell of Park Row on 2 October 1826 at St. Michael's.
Joseph Bartlett went into partnership with Michael Mogg, as wine and spirit merchants, in 1825 although he is listed on his own at 9 Trinity Street in 1830 (Pigot's).
The children of Joseph Bartlett and Emma
Howell were:
Emma, born 21 Aug. 1827, bapt. 24 Oct. 1827 at St. Augustine the Less;
William Charles, born 3 Nov.1829, bapt. 2 Dec. 1829 at St. Augustine the
Less;
Matilda, born 8 June 1831, bapt. 29 June 1831 at St. Augustine the Less;
Harriet, born 30 March 1833, bapt. 26 Sept. 1833 at St. Augustine the
Less;
John Howell, born 27 Sept. 1834, bapt. 9 Jan. 1835 at St. Paul's;
Mary, born 1835, bapt. 21 Dec. 1835 at St. Paul's;
Catherine, born 28 Aug. 1839, bapt. 27 Sept. 1839 at St. Paul's;
George Godfrey, born 18 Oct. 1842, bapt. 16 Nov. 1842 at St.
Paul's.
Both George Godfrey and John Howell Bartlett followed their father's profession as Wine and Spirit Merchants.
Michael Mogg was born on 9 June 1803, baptised 17 July 1805 in St. Paul's, Bristol, the son of Michael Mogg and Ann Bartlett, who had married at St. Thomas, Bristol, on 5 Feb. 1795. Ann was the younger sister of William Charles Bartlett, she was baptised at St. Thomas's on 16 April 1773. So the two partners in the firm were cousins.
Bartlett & Mogg rented premises in Queen Square, which included Michael Mogg's house, this was set on fire during the reform riots of 1831, Michael himself personally confronting some of the attackers and later was summoned to testify in the subsequent trial.
Michael was married on 30 March 1848, to Emma, daughter of Joseph Gullick Esq. of the Island of Guernsey, at St Peter's Port on the Island. On 26 January 1849 Emma gave birth to a daughter, Edith Mary, at Great George Street, Bristol. A son, Henry Herbert, followed, he was baptised at St. George, Brandon Hill on 22 Oct. 1850.
Henry Herbert Mogg married Emma Lucy Barrow at St. Andrew's, Clifton, on 25 Oct. 1876.
From the Bristol Mercury - Saturday 19 April 1879 page 2:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the PARTNERSHIP
carried on by JOSEPH BARTLETT and MICHAEL MOGG, under the Firm of BARTLETT
and MOGG, at Small street, in the City and County of Bristol, in the trade
or business as Wine Merchants, has been DISSOLVED as from the First day of
January last, by mutual consent.
The Business will henceforth be carried on by the said MICHAEL MOGG with
GEORGE GODFREY BARTLETT, in the present Style or Firm of BARTLETT and
MOGG; and all Debts due and from the said late Partnership Firm will, as
heretofore, be Received and Paid by the Firm of BARTLETT and MOGG.
Dated this Ninth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy
nine.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
MICHAEL MOGG
Joseph Bartlett died at 10 Buckingham Villas, Clifton, on 18 April 1879, aged 78.
Michael Mogg died at 22 Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, on 6 Oct 1883, aged 80. The partnership between Michael Mogg and George Bartlett at Small Street was dissolved by mutual consent on 31 Dec. 1882. It was then carried on by George Godfrey Bartlett, in partnership with Arthur Henry Hobbs, trading as Bartlett & Hobbs. Around 21 December 1896 the company moved premises to Polo House which was at 27 Prince Street, Queen Square. They supplied "Polo" port (in Old Tawny and Rich Ruby) and Polo sherry (in Dry, Pale or Brown), to the Hatchet Inn. In June 1925 they marked their centenary by producing a "Centenary Port".They also supplied "Queen's Own" Scotch Whiskey, and "King's Own" Irish Whiskey.
Accident at Clifton:— Western Daily Press - Wednesday 25 July 1906 page 7.
P.C. 22C, attracted by a crowd in Upper Belgrave Road, about 6 o'clock last night, was informed that a man had been seen to stagger from the footway and fall, injuring his head and becoming unconscious. He was taken to Messrs. Buton and Grant's chemist shop in White Ladies Road, and thence to the Infirmary by the Marine Ambulance, where he is detained in a serious condition, suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull. He was identified as Mr. George Godfrey Bartlett, of 46 Pembroke Road, Clifton, 67 years of age.
George unfortunately died of his injuries at the infirmary on August 4th 1906, he was actually in his 64th year.
Around 1948 Bartlett and Hobbs became part of the Allied Breweries: Victoria Wine Company Limited and John Lovibond & Sons Ltd. (See London Metropolitan Archives: Ref: LMA/4434). They were surviving in 1971.
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