Francis Lowe & Sons
Francis Lowe was a retail watchmaker and jeweller with a shop in Effingham Street, Rotherham. Knives with Lowe’s name on the blade would have been made to order by Sheffield cutlery manufacturers for sale in the Rotherham shop, possibly as part of a canteen of cutlery, a popular engagement or wedding gift.
The Lowe family originally came from Warwickshire. Francis was born in about 1826 and married Eliza West in 1850. The family moved to Rawmarsh in the 1850s and by 1871 they were living on Eldon Road in Eastw....
