Joseph Makin
A Directory of Sheffield (1787) listed Joseph Makin as a fork maker at Hollis Croft. The family was known for the manufacture of forks, but few details are available on Joseph’s background. He may have been born in about 1746, the son of John and Elizabeth. He was apparently the brother or half-brother of James Makin (Master Cutler in 1803). In 1790, Joseph offered a reward for the capture of an apprentice – Samuel Hague, aged 19, about ‘five feet high’ – who had ab....
