Gray, Wallis & Company
The partners were Henry Gray and Joseph Wallis, who combined in about 1870. Their firm was listed in the Sheffield directory in 1871 as a German silver spoon and fork manufacturer at Sylvester Works, Sylvester Lane, Arundel Street. Henry Gray had been born at Attercliffe in 1839, the son of William (a die sinker) and his wife, Martha. Henry followed his father’s trade as a die sinker, but by 1871 was enumerated in the Census as a spoon and fork maker, who employed two men and a boy. He liv....
