Read (Reed or Reid), Roger, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1760–1818). Addresses given at 31 Frog Lane, 1769–74; 37 Whitechapel, 1781–84; no. 42 in 1790; no. 37 in 1794; no. 45 in 1796; no. 41, 1800–04; nos 31 and 42 in 1805; no. 49, 1807–10; no. 46 in 1811; no. 48, 1813–14; and no. 49 in 1818. In 1760 as a joiner he petitioned freedom on servitude of seven years to Richard Copeland, joiner and cm; admitted freeman in 1761. Former apps petitioned freedom: James Atherton in 1780; Roger Corles in 1784; and James Ashton in 1812, taken as app. in 1804. His son, Charles Read, cm, born in 1778, petitioned freedom on birthright in 1802, paying 3s 4d. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk] Probably two generations of tradesmen of the same name.