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Oakes E. M. Oakes & Company -
Oakes Edward Oakes & Son -
Oakes Hawksworth, Oakes & Company -
Oakes Oakes, Tompkin & Ward -
Oakes Shemeld & Oakes -
Oakes William & John Oakes -
Oates Albert Oates -
Oates Francis Oates -
Oates George Oates -
Oates Isaac Oates & Son -
Oates Luke Oates & Company -
Oates Oates, Colley & Wigham / Oates & Colley -
Oates Robinson & Oates -
Oates William Oates -
Oates William Oates & Company -
Oborne Oborne & Gunning -
Ogden Bingham & Ogden -
Ogden Ogden Brothers & Derby -
Old Old Hall -
Oldfield C. Oldfield -
Oldham J. H. Oldham -
Oldham James Oldham & Company -
Oliver J. Oliver & Sons -
Oliver Oliver & Bower Ltd -
Oliver Oliver & Ogle -
Oliver Oliver and Webster -
Oliver William Oliver -
Oneida British Oneida Community Ltd -
Osbaldiston Louis Osbaldiston & Company -
Osborn Charles Osborn -
Osborn Clark & Hall / Clark & Osborn -
Osborn Osborn & Sons -
Osborne Alfred Osborne -
Osborne Edward Osborne -
Osborne Osborne & Company (Sheffield) Ltd -
Osborne Osborne Tableware Ltd -
Osborne Percy Osborne & Son Ltd -
Osborne Thomas E. Osborne & Company Ltd -
Osborne Thomas Osborne / Benjamin Osborne -
Otley Thomas Otley & Sons Ltd -
Oughtibridge Oughtibridge Equitable Co-operative & Industrial Society Ltd -
Ovicto Ovicto -
Owen Charles Owen & Company / Owen Brothers -
Owen Latham & Owen Ltd -
Owen Owen & Webster -
Owen Robert Owen -
Owen Robert Owen / Denison Owen -
Oxley Atkin, Oxley & Co -
Oxley James Oxley (Sheffield) Ltd -
Oxley John Oxley & Company -
Oxley Law, Atkin & Oxley -
Oxley Thos Oxley Ltd -
Oxspring George Oxspring
E. M. Oakes & Company
The Oakes family manufactured scissors in Attercliffe. This was an area apparently favoured by Dutch and French refugees, some of whom were skilled scissor men (Leader 1905-61). The family was descended from Matthew Oakes (born c.1625), who launched a scissor-making dynasty, which had a penchant for using Scriptural names. The Oakes’ family history can be traced in its mark – a heart, the letter ‘I’, and a Maltese Cross – which was granted first to Titus Oakes in 1737. Th....
