Manufacturers of earthenware and ironstone at Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, England

• The partners were Noah Robinson, John Wood and William Brownfield. 

• Robinson & Wood had previously been in partnership as Robinson & Wood in Broad Street, Shelton. 

• When Brownfield joined in 1836 - the business moved to the Cobridge Works.  

• Noah Robinson died in September 1837 and was replaced in the partnership by John Robinson (who was probably Noah's father). 

• John died sometime after and his widow Dorothea succeeded him. 

• The partnership was dissolved on the 12th March 1841 and the business was continued by John Wood and William Brownfield. (London Gazette 23 July 1841) 

"Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Dorothea Robinson, of Cheadle in the county of Stafford, Widow, and John Robinson, late of Lane-end in the said county of Stafford, Manufacturer of Earthenware, deceased, and John Wood and William Brownfield both of Cobridge, in the said county of Stafford, Manufacturers of Earthenware, under the style or firm of Robinson, Wood and Brownfield, has been and stands dissolved, determined, and put an end to, upon and from the 12th day of March now last past ; and that all debts and demands due to or from the said partnership are to be received and paid by the said John Wood and William Brownfield, by whom the business of the said partnership will in future be carried on - Dated this 16th Day of July 1841."

Dorothea Robinson

William Batkin

The James x Deakin Mark of

James Wardle
Executors of the will of the said
John Robinson, deceased

John Wood

William Brownfield