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William Ellis BuntingWilliam Ellis was the eldest son of William Bunting and joined his
father in the business some time around the late 1850's along with his younger A year or two after his father's death in 1895, William Ellis and his brother Alfred parted company. Alfred left the partnership and set up on his own account at North Station Road. William Ellis and his son
William Whorlow continued to trade as Bunting William Ellis' and Alfred's younger brother, Isaac (Isaac of Japan) had by this time moved to Japan and set up his lily export business and Bunting & Sons were importing the bulbs in large quantities for cultivation of the flowers for market.
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brother Alfred (b1843). These were years of steady progress and the firm
won prestigious contracts for tree planting and laying out gardens in many places in the borough as well as further afield in Clacton on Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze. Before the railway reached these resorts the Buntings and their men had to walk to them from Colchester. William Ellis married Mary
Ann Whorlow and they had two sons, 
& Sons at Lexden Road as nurserymen.