Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes
According to the register of Howard Street Chapel, Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes was born on 13 June 1829, the son of silversmith William Rhodes and his wife, Ann. Jehoiada specialised in saw and punch-piercing silver and electro-plate products. In 1847, when he was aged 18, he married at Manchester Cathedral Sarah Betts Bradshaw, the daughter of William Bradshaw, a cutler. Curiously, the marriage register recorded his father’s name as Thomas (a bookkeeper). By the 1850s, Jehoiada was working in Carver ....
