Several Lingards made pocket-knives (including Barlows) in Stannington / Wadsley / Bradfield / Worrall.  The Company of Cutlers registered numerous Lingard Freemen in the late eighteenth century.  Some had settled in Pea Croft by the 1850s.  One was Robert Lingard; another was Bradfield-born John Lingard (c.1814-1880), who was active in Pea Croft by 1849.  He advertised spring knife cutlery, Spanish dirks, and Bowies.  His address was 83 Pea Croft, where he was a ‘lodger’ in the 1851 Census.   He used ‘XLNT’ as his trademark (curiously the identical mark appeared in the same directory in an advertisement for John Wragg & Sons.  Adams et al (1990)¹ show several Lingard Bowies.   One is a folding knife in which a large blade flies open and locks by pressure on a smaller pen blade.  This switchblade design, which Lingard registered in 1850, was copied in Sheffield and Germany (Punchard & Fuller, 2012).   By 1852, John was a spring knife maker and landlord at The Star pub at Pea Croft.   His cutlery team included about eight men.   In the directory (1876), he was a spring knife manufacturer and knife sharpener.   He then apparently retired.   He died on 2 May 1880 (aged 66) at Wharncliffe Side, leaving under £1,000.  His remains and those of his wife, Mary (who died in 1872, aged 75), lie in St Nicholas’s churchyard at Bradfield.

^1. Adams, W, Voyles, J  B, and Moss, T, The Antique Bowie Knife Book (Conyers, Georgia, 1990)