fellmonger

His father, John Upfold, was a fellmonger.

A fellmonger was a dealer in hides or skins, particularly sheepskins, who might also prepare skins for tanning.

William Peacock married Elizabeth Everett, daughter of Joseph, another Bermondsey fellmonger, in 1816.

The sodium sulphide soaks through the skin and destroys the follicles of the wool roots so that the fellmonger can then separate the wool from the skins.

Patrick Pakenham (Packingham, Pakingham) was an English fellmonger who was burned to death at Uxbridge in August 1555 because he refused to recant his Arian beliefs.

William Peckitt was born in Husthwaite, a village near Easingwold, 15 miles North West of York, and was baptised on 13 April 1731; his parents were William, a fellmonger and glove maker, and Ann.

Another major fire, in 1943, at fellmonger David Jowitt and Sons, spared both Michell's and Burford's factories, but on 24 April 1945, yet another fire destroyed their wool treatment factory at the corner of Mandon and Adam Streets.