George Ward
George Ward was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, in about 1815. He was possibly the brother of Jeremiah Ward, who had been born about three years earlier in nearby Beighton. By 1841, they were spring-knife cutlers in Charles Street. By 1851, they and their families occupied adjacent houses at 169 and 171 Eyre Street. Jeremiah employed a dozen men; George, who a maker of fine pen and pocket knives (and a dealer in cutlery), employed ten men and four boys. Jeremiah was not listed thereafter, b....
