Details for: FARLEY, Hester
| Name: |
FARLEY, Hester |
| County: |
Gloucestershire |
| Town: |
Bristol |
| Address(es): |
Castle Green (1774-5) |
| Book Trades: |
Newspaper proprietor, Printer |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1774 - 1780 (date married) |
| Biographical Dates: |
1774 - 1780 (date married) |
| Notes: |
Daughter of Felix & Elizabeth Farley. Inherited `Bristol Journal' 1774 from cousin Sarah. Married Thomas Rutter 1780. Succeeded by George & William Routh and Charles Nelson (husband of sister Elizabeth) |
| Sources: |
- Barry, Jonathan, Methodism and the Press in Bristol, 1737-1775 (Wesley Historical Society, Bristol Branch, Bulletin 64)
- Hyett, Francis Adams & Rev. William Bazeley, The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature (Gloucester, 1896)
- Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932)
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