Hawksworth, Oakes & Company
This partnership was a cutler and factor, which appeared at Campo Lane in the Sheffield directory in 1797 – the same year it was dissolved. The main partners were Edward Oakes and Joseph Hawksworth, besides four executors of the late John Hawksworth (he had been buried at the parish churchyard on 26 January 1797). The four were Joseph Hawksworth (aforementioned), John and William Champion (of Worksop), and John Gillatt. The deceased John Hawksworth had been a wholesale brewer at Campo Lane (he w....
