2 Gallon Stoneware Flagon
Impressed:  MACKENZIE  & Compy/ Wine & Spirit Merchants / 9 & 10 Quay Head / BRISTOL  1303 printed on shoulder. Potter: J. C. Hawley / Bristol

4 Gallon Stoneware Flagon
Printed:  MACKENZIE & COMPY/ WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS / 9 & 10 QUAY HEAD / BRISTOL 2663 printed on shoulder. Potter: Price / Bristol

Charles Frederick Kemball was born in St. Nicholas, Bristol at the end of 1831, son of William Henry Kemball and Anna Maria Ellcock, baptised at the Castle Green Independent Meeting on 9 Dec. 1831. He married Maria Louisa Short in 1856. He had opened an agency for Ind, Coope & Co.'s brewery at 5 St. Stephen's Street by December 1859 and was offering ale in 18 gallon casks. By 24 March 1860 he had opened stores premises at 9, Tontine Warehouses, Quay Head, the Stephen's Street shop was still trading up until at least 1873.

Charles Frederick Kemball of 4 King's Parade Redland and of 9 Quay Head, Wine & Spirit Merchant, died at home on 25 April 1868, his widow Maria Louisa was sole executrix. The business passed to brother William Henry Kemball in partnership with Rice Edward Powell. It seems that William Henry may have been Clerk and Accountant for the company.

Rice Edward Powell was born in 1843 in Tythegston, Glamorgan, son of Rees Powell and Frances Jane Jones, he married Margaret Anne Spalding at St. Andrews, Montpelier, Bristol on 1 May 1869. He was a Wine Merchant at the time. He died at 5 Aberdeen Terrace, West Clifton, after a few day illness, aged 45, on 25 Mar, 1889. The year before his death he had taken the license of the Swan in Bridge Street from Charles S. Toogood,

From the Western Daily Press - Saturday 3 July 1875, page 4:

NOTICE is hereby given, that the PARTNERSHIP hitherto subsisting between us the undersigned, carrying on business at Nos. 9, and 10, QUAY HEAD, in the City of Bristol, WINE and SPIRIT, ALE and PORTER MERCHANTS, has expired by effluxion of time. All debts due to and from the said Partnership will received and paid by Mr R. E. POWELL, at the above address. Dated the 1st day of July. 1875.

WILLIAM HENRY KEMBALL.

RICE EDWARD POWELL.

Witness—B. B. WARD. Solicitor.

Albion Chambers, Bristol.

Notice is also hereby given, that R. E. POWELL and Mr A. MACKENZIE, Jun., will carry on the business of WINE and SPIRIT, ALE and PORTER MERCHANTS, in the premises occupied by the late firm of KEMBALL and POWELL, at 9 and 10, QUAY HEAD, Bristol in Co-partnership, under the style of POWELL and MACKENZIE.

From the London Gazette - 18 June 1889, page 3310.

RICE EDWARD POWELL, Deceased. Pursuant to the  Statute 22nd and  23rd  Vic., cap. 35.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all persons having any claim against the estate of Rice Edward Powell, late of Quay  Head and No. 5, Aberdeen-terrace, both in the city of Bristol, Wine Merchant, and Brewer's Agent (who died on the 25th day of March, 1889, and to whose will probate was granted on the 11th day of June, 1889, by the Bristol District Registry), are required, on or before the 15th day of August next, to send the particulars of such claims to  me, the  undersigned, William Edward Perham, at the expiration of which time the executor will distribute the  assets of the deceased, having regard to the claims only of which he shall then have had notice.—Dated this 14th  day of June, 1889. W. E. PERHAM, 5, Exchange, Bristol, Solicitor for the Executor.

Alexander Mackenzie was born at 17 Little Russell Street in Bloomsbury, London on 4 July 1845 and baptised at the National Scotch Church (Regent Square United Reform) on 25 Nov. 1845. His father, an excise officer also called Alexander, later worked for the Inland Revenue in Bristol, whilst Alex jr. worked as a clerk, likely with Kemball and Powell, later joining the company as a partner. He married Clara Coldstream in Kensington in 1889.

From the  Western Daily Press - Monday 31 August 1925 "Local Will. Mr Alexander Mackenzie, of Hankford, Babbacombe, Torquay, formerly of 34, Alma Road, Clifton, Bristol, wine merchant, who died on the 3rd of July last, left a gross estate of the value of £23,027 13s, with net personalty of £14,914 7s 11d."

Mackenzie & Co. disappeared from the phone book in 1928.