George Hawksley & Company
George Hawksley (c.1819-1871) was born in York. In the Census (1841), he was living in Regent Terrace, Sheffield, and working as a silversmith. By 1849, George Hawksley & Co, silver-plate manufacturer, was listed at 32 Charlotte Street. Hawksley’s Charlotte Street Works apparently prospered: in 1851, he told the Census that he employed 40 hands. He had two partners – Charles Haslam and Jonathan Hukin – but this arrangement was dissolved in 1852. George Hawksley contin....
