Within my family oral tradition is recorded the Mallinders having their own iron foundry business in Sheffield. This oral tradition was passed on to me from my father. The written record confirms this oral tradition. The "Mallinder Brothers" iron foundry company traded from after 1861 (unknown start date) until 1883. Thomas Mallinder (Paternal Line) with his brothers established the business.
When Thomas (Paternal Line) died in 1878 the original business partnership was dissolved. The other two brothers, Francis and Joseph, continued in a new partnership.
'The London Gazette' on December 15th 1882 published the bankruptcy details for Joseph and Francis Mallinder. The legal requirement was to publish within 'The London Gazette' a 'notice' to all creditors of the company filing for bankruptcy under the 1869 Act. This announcement was to inform all creditors that a First General Meeting was to be held at the offices of Horatio Walter Ibbotson; solicitor for Francis and Joseph Mallinder.
On January 16th 1883, it is recorded in 'The London Gazette' that Joseph Mallinder (of 176 St. Mary's Road, Sheffield) and Francis Mallinder (late of 31 Randall Street but now of 164 Alexandra Road, Heeley, Sheffied) filed for bankruptcy. They were operating in business as a partnership at Porter Foundry, Sylvester Gardens, Arundel Street in Sheffield. The firm was called "Mallinder Brothers" and listed as General Ironfounders. The purpose of this publication was to publically inform debtors to Mallinder Brothers that they needed to pay their debts; Septimus Short of Sheffield was appointed as Trustee of the debtors.
In November 2014 I received two original documents connected to this iron foundry, from Patricia Nixon, that revealed further information. The first document was a two page letter from the niece of Elizabeth Mallinder nee. Crossland to the solicitors handling the bankrupty of Francis and John. The first page explained that Thomas was the senior partner of the business and that when he died his share in the "Mallinder Brothers" had been undervalued. It is claimed that Thomas had a larger share than Francis or John. The claim was that on Thomas Mallinder's death an agreement had been made by Francis and John to pay Elizabeth (Thomas's wife) £800 at a £100 per year for eight years. The issue was that Francis and John had paid her nothing.
Page 2 explained that Elizabeth had no other income and had been hard done by.
This second document indicated Elizabeth received about £64 payment. £64 in 1884 was equivalent in purchasing power to about £8,005.23 in 2020.
Interesting to note that Joseph Mallinder probably established another iron foundry business based on his 1901 census; listed as an employer and not an employee.