John Nicholson & Sons
This branch of the Nicholson family came from Attercliffe. John Nicholson (c.1733-1801) was a cutler, who in 1754 married Hephzibah Wadsworth. Both the Nicholsons and particularly the Wadsworths had been involved in the establishment of Sheffield’s first dissenting church at Attercliffe in 1676. This later attracted the interest of antiquarians, such as Robert E. Leader (Reminiscences of Old Sheffield, 1876), and various contributors to The Sheffield Independent (19 September, 22 October 1872; 1....
