Job Stevenson / Stevenson & Law
By the 1840s, Job Stevenson (1824-1907) was a silversmith in Edmund/Hammond Street. His father – Job (1787-1858) – was a die sinker (and publican at the Rose and Crown, Waingate). The father died on 5 October 1858 at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield. By 1860, Job the younger was running Edgerton Hotel and manufacturing silver and electro-plate goods in Edgerton Street. In 1881, he told the Census that he was ‘only employing men when busy’. Job died in Parl....
