Boulton, Charles (1789-1856)
Boulton, Charles
Chester, Cheshire; cabinet maker (fl.1789–1856)
Addresses given in Eastgate Street (1812–22); and Lower Row, Bridge Street (1828). Probably the Charles Boulton apprenticed to Richard Hawkins, cabinet maker, on 30 November–3 December 1789. Admitted freeman on 7 November 1811.
He bound apprentices named John Cross (1814); John Todd (1826); Charles Leatwood (1830); and his son, Joseph Boulton (1856).
The Chester Guardian and Cambrian Intelligence announced Boulton's declared bankruptcy on 20 May 1819, writing that having ‘assigned over his Estate and Effects for the equal benefit of such of his creditors …’. [poll books; Chester freemen rolls and apprentice books].
Source: DEFM
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.