PETTY, Isaac Wovenden (1815-1878) — Manchester
Engraver, lithographer & printer; stationer; account-book manufacturer. Produced Joseph Lock & others, Plan and section of an intended railway, to be called the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway 1844, with Gustavus Ernst; Flintshire : valuable freehold estate called Trimley Hall 1865, a sale catalogue with a plan.
Born at Salford 26 Aug 1815, and baptised (his middle name given as Wolvenden) at Manchester 3 May 1816 the son of John Petty (1786-1829), a book-keeper and clerk, and his wife Frances Parker Jones, who had married in 1813. Married Mary Ann Martin (1816?-1906), also from Manchester, at St. Bride Fleet Street, London, 8 Jun 1840. Traded as ‘Petty, Ernst & Co.’, with Gustavus Ernst 1844-1853, the partnership formally dissolved 5 Mar 1853, with Petty taking on the financial responsibilities. By 1851, they were employing eighteen men. A parallel partnership with Joseph Martin, trading as ‘Joseph Martin & Co.’, “corn merchants, millers and rice cleaners” was ended 4 Jan 1849. Advertised “Lithography — Maps, Plans, Mechanical Drawings, Circulars, &c” (Manchester Times, 21 Sep 1853 onwards). Advertised for an embossing press in 1856. Registered a design for a register holder in 1861. In 1861, he was living in Stretford with his wife and five children, at that time employing fourteen men and six boys — the number of boys doubled by 1871. Served as an ensign (1865) and later lieutenant (1868) in the 1st Manchester (6th Lancashire) Rifle Volunteer Corps. Died 2 Apr 1878. Buried at Weaste Cemetery, Salford, alongside his son, Alfred Martin Petty (1848-1910), also a printer, where a joint gravestone survives. Probate was granted to his widow on a personal estate of under £7,000 19 Jul 1878.
Wine Office Court, London — 1840
69 King Street, Manchester — 1844-1861
55 South King Street, Manchester — 1861-1873
7 Bellwood Terrace, Stretford (home) — 1861-1865
1 Erlesmere, Stretford (home) — 1871
BNA. Census 1841-1871. LG. LHD. NA.