Tali,
There were many hat factories in Stockport. The largest and most famous was
Christie's on Higher Hillgate.
Other factories were T&G Lee's, Battersby's, Stton and Torkington's,
Ward's.
Regards,
Eric MILLWARD of Marple, Cheshire
eric(a)genman.worldonline.co.uk
Interests in Cheshire,....... BRUCKSHAW (Stockport),
CHARLESWORTH(Stockport), DALE (Congleton), HANSON (Stockport),HO(U)DSON
(Audlem), JOHNSON(Audlem), LEA (Sandbach), LEIGH (Stockport), LEWIS
(Warmingham), LITTLER (Stockport), MILLWARD (Stockport), MOORES
(Northwich), MOSES (Crewe), NIELD (Macclesfield), PODMORE (Congleton) ,
SIMCOCK (Audlem), STREET (Nantwich), WASHINGTON (Stockport), WILLIAMSON
Stockport)
in Derbyshire,....... HEEDS (Chesterfield), MILLWARD and RADFORD (Ashbourne
area),
in Lancashire, .......GROOM and HEEDS and MORGAN and MURPHY and ROBERTS
(all Manchester), MORGAN (Liverpool)
in Staffordshire, .....DALE (Audley), HO(U)DSON (Audley), JOHNSON
(Mucklestone)
in Shropshire,.........JOHNSON (Mucklestone)
in WR Yorkshire, ...WHITEHEAD (Saddleworth)
and coming to Manchester, UK from America before 1820, ......HOLDEN.