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Williams Brewery

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Williams Brewery
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Founded 📆1848
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Williams Brewery was a Canadian brewery founded in 1848 by Thomas Williams in Guelph, Ontario.

History - Before the Brewery[edit]

Thomas Williams was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England in 1792. His father-in-law Thomas Foxwell was a successful feltmaker in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England. From 1825 to 1827, he was a partner in a clothier company with his brother-in-law, Phillip Foxwell, called Foxwell and Williams of Dye House Mill in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire which was dissolved in September of 1827.[1]. He afterward owned another cloth mill at Inchbrook Mill which went bankrupt in 1832 [2]. The Williams family left Liverpool and came to Canada in 1842. They settled on the shore of Lake Simcoe and called their farm Invermara. It is now within the limits of the town of Orillia.

Williams Family and the Brewery[edit]

After some years, they moved to Guelph where Thomas and his sons, Gabriel and John, engaged in the brewing business [3]. The company was called Williams Brewery[4]and operated from 1848 until 1861. Gabriel died suddenly in 1854 with John Williams continuing to work with his father. Thomas' son-in-law John Douglas joined the brewery as a clerk/brewer sometime after 1849. There were a number of other brewers operating in Guelph in 1857-58, amongst them, John Sleeman of Sleeman Breweries and Holliday & Henderson [5] Thomas Williams died in 1868 in Owen Sound.

References[edit]

  1. The London Gazette, Part 2, 1859
  2. "Bankrupts" (PDF). The Edinburgh Gazette. May 22, 1832. p. 1.
  3. The Orillia Packet, July 26, 1906
  4. "Assessment Roll for the East Ward of Guelph". Guelph Public Library Archives: City of Guelph Office of Assessor. 1857. CA ON00126 F2-F2-2-F2-2-1.
  5. Canadian Directory for 1857-1858


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