Mathias Mather was an important and successful person, listed at Howell Croft, Bolton in the 1818 Bolton Directory and 1821 directory.
In 1812, Matthias and Mary had a daughter Rachel baptised that must have died as another Rahcel was baptised in 1818. Their last daughter Eliza born 1827 must also have died (missing from 1841 census), but there are no burial records for either of these two daughters.
In 1824, Mathias Mather, Iron Moulder is listed at 3 Derby Street in the Lancashire Gazetteer.
5 Jul 1835, Matthias Mather, Moulder and Widower married Ann Ironfield at St Mary's, Bury..
In Dec 1839, the partnership between Matthias Mather and Edwin Priestley Mather, under the firm of MATHER & SON of Great Bolton, as Chemists, Druggists and Grocers was dissolved by mutual consent. Dated 11th but reported on the 21st, about 4 days after Mathias Mather died.
Mathias Mather and Mathias Mather jnr, both moulders, are listed at Derby St, Bolton in the 1820 Bolton Directory, and Mathias jnr (aged 30) is still there in the 1841 census.
Matthias died in East Bolton in 1839, leaving an estate worth about £3,000