Palliser, Joseph, address unknown, cm and joiner (1741). Paid 16s 3d for making a clothes press for ‘Mr. Leaton’, the entry in the cash book of the Gibside estate, Co. Durham being dated 1 August 1741. Several generations of the Palliser family were estate joiners at Gibside and estate records frequently mention furniture repairs and the occasional making of new furniture by them. [Durham RO, Strathmore MS, D/St/V988]