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191:, replaced Cowles in that capacity and they registered a new joint hallmark. This arrangement lasted three years; when it ended the two closed the business and it was sold to John Henderson. Samuel moved to
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when she was young, the city in which she spent most of her career. Her family's home at 19 Princelet Street, a 'brick messuage' built in 1719, has been conserved as a museum of immigration and diversity.
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