Benjamin Micklethwaite
The Micklethwaite genealogy is difficult to unravel, not least because the name was sometimes spelled as ‘Mickelthwaite’ or ‘Mickelthwate’. The first enterprise that can be traced was Micklethwaite & Co, a merchant and manufacturer of pen, pocket, sport’s, and fruit knives in Pond Street. The senior partner of this firm (listed in 1787, with the trade mark ‘ZACA’) was Benjamin Micklethwaite, who died in 1798. J. & B. Hounsfield traded nearby in Pond Hill.&nb....
