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Taken from 1834 trade directory for Cheshire

Chester - described as ancient, respectable and wealthy city, bishop's see and seaport. 'Although in size and population it cannot rank with many other cities of England, yet, in point of antiquity, local interest and objects claiming attention from the curious and refined, it is parallel with most, and superior to many'......'Upon the Ellesmere canal a packet boat affords a cheap and pleasant conveyance to Liverpool.'

Here Here in Chester, together with the villages of Eccleston, Christleton and neighbourhoods during 1834 there where:

2 accountants
4 artists
4 architects & surveyors
26 attorneys
8 auctioneers & appraisers
51 bakers & flour dealers
3 bankers
2 basket makers
13 blacksmiths & farriers
2 block & pump makers
3 bookbinders
10 booksellers & stationers (incl 6 also bookbinders)
51 boot & shoe makers
10 braziers & tin plate workers
3 breeches makers
10 brewers
6 bricklayers
2 brush makers
8 builders
102 butchers (68 being only at market on Wed. and Sat.)
8 cabinet makers
15 cabinert makers & upholsterers
5 carvers & guilders
5 cheese factors
13 cheesemongers & provision dealers
15 chymists & druggists
6 chymist manufacting
2 clog & pattern makers
11clothes dealers
4 coach makers
2 coach proprietors

 7 coal merchants & dealers
6 coopers
6 cork cutters
6 corn factors & dealers
5 cow keepers
11 curriers & leather sellers
2 dentists
3 dyers & scourers
6 eating houses
5 engravers & copper plate printers
2 fellmongers & leather dressers
9 fishmongers
2 flax merchants
6 flour dealers
6 fly owners
5 fruiterers & green grocers
9 furniture brokers
7 glass, china etc dealers
22 grocers & tea dealers
4 gun makers
22 hairdressers (3 also perfumers)
6 hatters
3 hop & seed dealers 
2 hosiers & glovers
13 inns & hotels
4 iron founders
10 ironmongers & nail makers
14 joiners & carpenters
3 law stationers
19 linen drapers
4 livery stable keepers
15 maltsters & hop dealers
3 merchants
4 millers & corn dealers

24 milliners & dress makers
4 music & musical instrument sellers
4 nail makers
2 newspapers (chester chronicle & chester courant)
14 nurserymen, gardeners & seedsmen
10 painters
12 pastry cooks & confectioners
10 pawnbrokers
3 perfumers
5 physicians
13 plumbers & glaziers
2 porter dealers
2 printers
5 proctors
1 rag merchant
7 rope makers
6 saddlers & harness makers
4 salt dealers
1 ship builder
49 shopkeepers & dealers in groceries & sundries
2 shot (tower) & lead pipe manufacturers
4 silversmiths & jewellers
13 slaters & plasterers
3 soap boilers
8 smallware dealers
15 spirit vaults
7 stay makers
8 stone & marble masons
12 straw hat makers
1 sugar refiner
15 surgeons
2 surveyors -land
2 tailors

8 Tallow chandles
9 tanners
143 taverns & public houses
39 retailers of beer
8 tea dealers
9 timber merchants
7 tabacco manufacturers
7 tabacco pipe makers
6 turners
6 upholsterers
2 veterinary surgeons
10 watch & clock makers
1 wharfinger
13 whitesmiths & bell-hangers
1 window glass merchant
10 wine & spirit merchants
3 wire workers
9 woollen drapers
1 woolstapler
1 roman cement & plater of Paris manufacturer
1 lace & fringe manufacturer
1 tripe dresser
1 poulterer
1 paper manufacturer
1 glove manufacturer
1 trunk maker
1 matteress manufacturer
1 piano-forte tuner
1 cutler