Jonathan Hobson
Jonathan Hobson, a scissors manufacturer, may have been baptised at St Peter’s on 6 October 1786, the son of Jonathan (a grinder) and Martha. However, the identification is not certain; nor is it clear if this was the ‘Jonathan Hobson’ in partnership with Joseph Cousins in Garden Street (1822) and Brocco Street (1825) making scissors and Britannia metal wares. That partnership ended in 1825. Jonathan Hobson, scissor smith, was buried in St Peter’s churchyard on 5 October 1827, aged 4....
