John Marshall was a late 18th and early 19th century publisher and printer in Tyneside, England.
He also owned circulation libraries in Newcastle's Cloth Market, and Gateshead's Church Street between 1810 and 1831.
[1] One of his larger publications was A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, and illustrative of the language and manners of the common people on the Banks of the Tyne and neighbourhood published in 1827.
Gateshead….- Volume I" written by Eneas Mackenzie and published in c1827 tells of the fire and states :- "Early on the morning of 22 February 1810, the steam corn and paper mill, on the premises of Mr. Harrison, baker, Gateshead, was discovered to be on fire; and, in a short time, the mill, Mr. Harrison's dwelling-house, and an adjoining house occupied by Mr. Anderson, grocer, were levelled with the ground.
[3]It appeared that the business closed in 1831 and the following report appeared in the London Gazette on "the 14th day of November 1831" John Marshall, formerly residing at the Black-Walls, Forth-Lane, afterwards of Forth-House, Forth, and carrying on business in the Old Butcher-Market, now called the Cloth-Market, all in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Printer, Stationer and Bookseller, and also Dealer in Tea, and Keeper of a Circulating Library, and late residing in Stowell-Street, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and carrying on business in the Cloth-Market aforesaid, Printer, Stationer, and Bookseller, and also Keeper of a Circulating Library, and also late of Stowell-Street, aforesaid, out of business.