Robert Hotham & Company
This branch of the Hotham family lived at Handsworth, where Richard Hotham (1739-1832) was a button mould maker and a Quaker. Richard had three sons by his wife Milicent: Robert (1768-1805), Samuel (1777-?), and Richard Jun. (1781-1811). In 1793, Edmund Sporle and Richard Hotham (presumably Sen.) registered a silver mark from Hawley Croft. Sporle had married Hotham’s daughter. Neither Sporle nor Hotham appeared in the 1787 directory, but a decade later Robert Hotham & Co was listed as a manu....
