Jonathan Shaw
Jonathan Shaw (c.1765-1836) was a pen and pocket knife manufacturer, who was based at Meadow Street from the early years of the nineteenth century. He may have been the son of Joseph Shaw, a cutler. If so, he was baptised on 13 April 1766. Apprenticeship records listed Jonathan (the son of Joseph, a cutler), who was bound to cutler Luke Marriott in 1780 and became a Freeman in 1791 (Leader, 1905-061), It should be noted, though, that another Jonathan Shaw (the son of Jonathan, a maltster) was apprenticed to....
