R & S | R & S Ltd |
R H & J P | R H & J P |
Rabjohn | Elijah Rabjohn / Thomas Rabjohn |
Radcliffe | John Radcliffe & Co |
Ragg | Granton Ragg Ltd |
Ragg | John & William Ragg |
Ramsden | Benjamin Woolhouse Ramsden |
Ramsden | William Ramsden & Company |
Randall | Randall & Company |
Rawlins | George Rawlins |
Rawson | Rawson Brothers (Cutlers) Ltd |
Rayner | William Rayner & Company |
Raynes | Thomas Raynes Ltd |
Read | Isaac Read & Sons |
Reaney | John Eadon Reaney |
Renown | Renown Cutlery Co |
Renshaw | Thomas Renshaw & Son |
Renton | George Renton |
Reuss | Reuss & Company |
Revitt | William Revitt |
Revitt | Frank Revitt |
Revitt | Revitt & Hull |
Reynolds | Frederick Reynolds (Cutlers Sheffield) Ltd |
Reynolds | A. Reynolds |
Reynolds | Herbert Reynolds |
Rhoden | Sutherland & Rhoden Ltd |
Rhodes | Ebenezer Rhodes & Company |
Richards | Richards of Sheffield Ltd |
Richardson | Southern & Richardson Ltd |
Richardson | Richardson & Binney Ltd |
Richardson | Richard Richardson |
Richardson | Westall Richardson Ltd |
Richartz | Gebruder, Richartz & Soehne |
Richmond | Dearden & Richmond |
Ringrose | Jenkins & Ringrose |
Ripon | J. Mortimer Ripon |
Roberts | Roberts & Doré Ltd |
Roberts | Roberts & Belk Ltd |
Roberts | Roberts & Mettam |
Roberts | Roberts, Cadman & Company |
Roberts | C. L. Roberts & Company |
Roberts | Roberts, Doré & Hall (Sheffield) Ltd |
Roberts | E. A. & H. G. Roberts |
Roberts | John Roberts & Sons |
Roberts | Roberts & Staniforth |
Roberts | Wilkinson Roberts & Co |
Roberts | William Henry Roberts |
Robinson | Robinson & Oates |
Robinson | Herbert Robinson & Company (Cutlers) Ltd |
Robinson | W. H. Robinson |
Robinson | W Robinson |
Rockingham | Rockingham Plate Ltd |
Rodgers | Joseph Rodgers & Sons Ltd |
Rodgers | Unwin & Rodgers Ltd |
Rodgers | Rodgers Brothers |
Rodgers | C. W. Rodgers |
Rodgers | George Rodgers & Company |
Rodgers | John Rodgers & Sons |
Rodgers | R. Rodgers & Son Ltd |
Rodgers | Richard Rodgers & Son |
Rodgers | William Rodgers |
Rodgers | Joseph Rodgers, Clun Street |
Rogers | Stanley Rogers & Son Ltd |
Rogers | Henry Rogers Sons & Company Ltd |
Rogerson | Rogerson Brothers |
Rollisson | Dickinson & Rollisson |
Romain | Romain & Son |
Rose | Lewis, Rose & Company Ltd |
Rotheram | Anthony Rotheram |
Round | John Round & Son Ltd |
Rowbotham | Wingfield, Rowbotham & Company |
Rowbotham | H. Rowbotham & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Rowbotham | Wingfield Rowbotham |
Rowe | Mottershaw & Rowe Ltd |
Rowland | Sleigh Rowland |
Rowland | T. G. Rowland |
Royle | Thomas Royle |
Royse | Royse Brothers Ltd |
Rushworth | Rushworths |
Russell | Russell Bradley & Company Ltd |
Rutland | Rutland Cutlery Company Ltd |
Ryalls | Ryalls & Lamb |
Ryalls | Ryalls & Heathcote |
Ryalls | Ryalls, Turner & Company Ltd |
Ryalls | W & E Ryalls |
Ryalls | Ryalls & Cooke |
Ryalls | John Ryalls & Sons |
Ryals | Ryals Brothers |
Ryals | James Ryals & Company Ltd |
John Eadon Reaney was born in Sheffield in 1841, the son of John Reaney (a manager in an edge tool manufactory, who was from Dronfield) and his wife, Mary Ann. Apparently, John E. Reaney was sent to Leicester as an ironmonger’s assistant, before returning to Sheffield to become a merchant/cutlery manufacturer at Argyle Works, Hollis Croft. In the early 1870s, he was insolvent; though in the Census (1881) he was a cutlery manufacturer employing sixty men. But Reaney’s Hollis Croft business was....