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Messrs COX AND WILLIAMSON
The two partners in this business, which opened Plymouth's first telephone service in 1881, were Mr Frederick William Pope Cox and Mr Arthur Healey Williamson. [1] Mr Cox was the eldest son of Mr John Pope Cox and his wife Sarah Anne. Mr Cox senior was a bookseller living in Milton Street, Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, and young Frederick was born in Manchester in 1849. [2] At the time of the census in 1871 the three of them were lodging with a Jane Piggott at 8 Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and Frederick, now aged 22, was a telephone engineer. [3] The other partner was Mr Arthur Healey Williamson. He had been born at Sherborne, Dorset, in 1855. Nothing is known about his early years. At the time of the 1881 census he was lodging with widow, Mrs Emily Hainsellin and her large family, at number 9 Radnor Place, Plymouth. He was listed as an electrician, telephone apparatus worker. [4] The partnership was dissolved on September 1st 1881 and the business was left solely in the hands of Mr Frederick William Pope Cox. [1] It is not known for
certain what happened to the two partners but a Mr Arthur Williamson, born
at Sherborne, Dorset, in 1856 appears in the 1891 census as living at Elm
Field House, High Street, Teddington, Surrey. No occupation is given
for him. [5] Sources:
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