John Evans
Owner, fifth cotton-spinning company
The censuses of 1841 and 1851 show John Evans cotton spinner, widower, (born Chelsea) living with his family at Kirk House. In 1851 he employed 10 men, 7 boys, 24 women.
Evans was noted for developing splendid gardens at Kirk House.
On 1st July 1851 however, the gardens, the weirs and the lower parts of the mill were wrecked by a flash flood down Chipping Brook.