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32. William
CAFFERATA was born 1812
in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He died 5 Sep 1874 in 23 Mill
Gate, Newark, Notts. William married Elizabeth WATERWORTH on September 7th 1839 at the
Catholic Church, Newark.
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William
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Biography
In 1862 William Cafferata, a
Liverpool stockbroker, purchased land and buildings at Beacon
Hill, Newark, including a newly built gypsum and plaster mill with
quarries and mines adjacent. Also included in the purchase
were a brick works and boiler plant. These were the original
Beacon Hill, later the Great Northern Plaster
Works.
William Cafferata had founded the firm in 1853. He
was then 45 years of age. Born in Liverpool, he had started
his career as a book-keeper in the eighteen thirties and is
first mentioned in Gore's Directory of Liverpool 1839, asof
Windsor Street, Toxteth, one of the newer suburban townships
incorporated into Liverpool in 1835. By 1845 he had moved with
his family to Oxton Road, Birkenhead, no doubt commuting daily
by ferry to Liverpool where he is recorded in Gore's Directory
of 1847 as a stock and share broker with offices in Exchange
Street East. He continued in business in Liverpool as a broker
until 1862, having returned with his wife and four young
children to a house at 17 Huskisson Street by 18511 and
afterwards to one in the new suburb of Wavertree. His first
home in Newark may have been 23 Mill Gate. He was there with
his family in 1871, as shown on the census return:
"23 Mill
Gate, William Cafferata Age 58 Occupation Manufacturer of
Plaster, Gypsum, Terra Alba, Brick and Tiles, etc. and miner
of Gypsum, etc., employing 158 men, landowner & farmer 125
acres. Place of Birth Liverpool.
He died on the 5th
September 1874, 62 years "at his residence in Mill Gate.." of
"Paralysis"
By Miss A
C Cooper.
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