Richard Hotham
The family apparently came from Lincolnshire. Richard Hotham (1790-1854), though, was born in Sheffield, the son of Richard (a cutler) and Alice née Hunt. Richard Jun.’s brother, William (1788-1808), died in Jamaica. His widow, Susanna née Boucher, then married Richard. In 1816 and in the early 1820s, he appeared in directories as a horn haft and scale presser at Pond Street. But by 1837, he was listed at Wilkinson Street as a bookkeeper. By 1841, he was a table knife a....
