Charles Shorto was a miller in the parish of Stratton, Dorset, England. As solicitor for Charles Shorto, Richard Nicholas Howard of Melcombe Regis, Dorset placed the following announcement in The London Gazette on November 21, 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
The Bankruptcy of Charles Shorto
August 7, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorchester, Dorset, Howard, Newman, Shorto, Stratton
A. Pearce & Co. (1918-1990)
August 26, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Collins, Genealogy, History, Location, Pearce, Shorto, Tompkins
Albert Pearce set up in business as the local carrier a few weeks after the end of the first world war in the Dorset Village of Cattistock after buying a coal round and carrier service from fellow villager Percy Shorto. Albert and his wife Susan, their family and their descendants, were to serve the transport needs of the local area for over seventy years.
