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....
