Joseph Whitworth
Joseph Whitworth was born in Sheffield in 1831, the son of William Whitworth (a scissor smith in Bow Street) and his wife, Ann. Directories in 1833 and 1841 listed William Whitworth, warehouseman, Bow Street. William was enumerated in the Census (1841) in Bow Street with Ann and three sons, William, Joseph, and Henry. By 1851, Joseph was apprenticed as a scissors grinder (and living in Garden Street with scissors grinder Sidney Thorpe and his family). In the Census (1861), Joseph was a scissors ....
