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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Wilkes and Kettle
Place	Overseal
Epithet	grocers and cheese factors
History	The Wilkes family were established in Overseal as grocers and cheese factors from the time of Joseph Wilkes II (1698-1776). His sons, Joseph Wilkes III (1733-1805), John (1728-1790) and Thomas (1745-1795) were also cheese factors and partners in the syndicate. After 1762, the obtained the lease of the Trent Navigation which linked Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, with river and canal wharves throughout the region, thus enhancing trade opportunities. The role of cheese factors was to act as agents on behalf of London cheesemongers and to obtain for them the highest quality cheese from local markets, fairs and farms. Thomas Wilkes was joined in his cheese business by John Kettle senior from c.1790-c.1799 and by John Kettle junior and Joseph Francis, all of Overseal, between 1799-1805. In 1780 Joseph Wilkes III founded a bank in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, to be followed by similar establishments in Buxton, Staffordshire, Measham and Overseal. His nephew Joseph Pycroft became a partner in the Burton bank until about 1800, when it became known as Wilkes and Hill’s bank.
Authorised Form of Name	Overseal; Wilkes and Kettle; grocers and cheese factors

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