Fisher Unwin

Fisher Unwin and Jacob Patisson, Stoneham Street, Coggeshall, Essex.

An inventory and its valuation were made in 1785 prior to the co-partnership deed made between them in 1786, for a brewhouse title deeds.

In 1839 a new partnership is listed in Directories with Jacob Patisson being replaced by a Mr Braunston, recorded as both a brewer and maltster. This concern may well have been the originators of the Beard and Bright Stoneham Street Brewery, see:- Beard & Sons Ltd.

On 5th October, 1837, the Coggeshall Brewery was up for sale at the White Hart, Market Place, Coggeshall, described thus:-

"Coggeshall Brewery, including an excellent brewhouse; 3 - floor malting house with 30 quarters steep; malt, barley and seed chambers; mill-house and every requisite building .... the whole forming a frontage of 95 feet in Stoneham Street; at the back is an enclosed yard and an excellent garden. The property is supplied from an inexhaustible spring rising in a small garden a short distance from the Brewery. The population of the town and neighbourhood will fully justify the opinion that an intelligent merchant with moderate capital must succeed".

A Fisher Unwin was recorded in the Tythes of 1779.

'From ESSEX BREWERS - The Malting and Hop Industries of the County by Ian P Peaty 1992 now out of print ISBN 978 1 873966 02 4