Luke Oates & Company
This branch of the Oates’ family in Stannington included some long-established cutlers. The 1787 directory listed Matthew and William Oates as manufacturers of spotted-knives (cutlery covered with horn spotted to look like shell), using a heart, arrow, horizontal letter ‘b’ mark. By the 1820s, directories listed five family members making pocket knives in Stannington: Luke, William, John, Jehoiada, and Jonathan.Luke Oates (1799-1875) was apparently the son of Matthew Oates (born 1765). In ....
