Jacobs & Co
We believe this company may have been started by Benjamin Jacobs during the early 1900s. Benjamin was born in Sheffield in 1857, the son of Michael Joseph Gostynski, (a naturalised Polish immigrant, who changed his name to Jacobs) and Rachel Miriam Warzawska. In 1871 the family were living at 57 West Bar Green next to the Bay Horse public House and Benjamin's father was a Hebrew Minister at a synagogue located on Fig Tree Lane.
During the next fifty years Benjamin married Miriam Goldman (also ....
