John Webster
John Webster (c.1816-1874) was a scissors manufacturer, who had been born in Helpaby, near Ripon, Yorkshire. In the Census (1851), he was enumerated in Furnace Hill, living with his wife Charlotte, next door to spring knife manufacturer James Winter. In the directory (1852), Webster was a scissors manufacturer and beer house keeper. (He may have been the John Webster, shopkeeper, at Pea Croft in 1849.) Webster continued to manufacture scissors, until his death in Furnace Hill on 30 June 1874, aged 58.....
