Individual Details

Joseph was born on 28 September 1785, the son of Josiah Baxendale and Mabella Salisbury, at Lancaster, Lancashire. Baxendale was educated at Lancaster but left in 1804 for Preston, and afterwards London, where in 1806 he was with Samuel Croughton, wholesale linen draper, of 33 St Paul's Churchyard, the agent for Bannister, Hall & Co., calico-printers of Preston.

In 1809 Baxendale returned to Lancashire and became a one-fifth partner in Bannister Hall with Charles Swainson, his cousin through the Salisbury family.

In 1817, he and two other partners bought a controlling interest in the firm of Pickfords and Co., Movers. Baxendale transformed the firm from a family-run canal carrier into a national enterprise. During the next twenty years Baxendale's energetic and far-sighted management turned the firm's fortunes to great prosperity and expanded it to become the largest carrying business in the United Kingdom.

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Birth	28 Sep 1785	Of Woodside, Whetstone, Middlesex, England
Birth	28 Sep 1785	Parish of Walton Le-Dale, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Marriage	29 Feb 1816	Blackburn, Lancashire, England - Mary Birley
Marriage	13 Oct 1833	Walton-Le-Dale, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - Living
Death	24 Mar 1872

Spouse	Mary Birley ( - 1862)
Child	Joseph Hornby Baxendale (1817 - )
Child	Alice Baxendale (1819 - )
Child	Mabella Baxendale (1820 - 1856)
Child	Lloyd Baxendale (1822 - )
Child	Richard Birley Baxendale (1823 - )
Child	Jane Birley Baxendale (1825 - )
Child	Salisbury Baxendale (1827 - )

Spouse

Living ( - )

Father	Josiah Baxendale ( - )
Mother	Mabella Salesbury ( - )
Sibling	Mabella Baxendale (1791 - )
Sibling	Lloyd Salisbury Baxendale (1788 - )
Sibling	Mary Baxendale (1790 - )
Sibling	Thomas Bayendale (1793 - )