Wade | Wade & Butcher |
Wade | Wade, Wingfield & Rowbotham |
Wain | John Wain & Company Ltd |
Wainwright | Wainwright & Staniland |
Wainwright | Wainwright |
Wakefield | A & S Wakefield |
Walburn | T. Walburn |
Walker | Eaton, Walker & Company |
Walker | C. P. Walker & Company Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Hall Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Walker | James Walker Ltd |
Walker | O. Walker & Sons |
Walker | Walker Steel Works Ltd |
Wall | Wall, Kay & Sons Ltd |
Wall | Chapman, Wall & Co Ltd |
Wallace | A. Wallace |
Wallis | Collings & Wallis |
Walliss | W. H. Walliss |
Walters | John Walters & Company |
Walton | Walton Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warburton | Warburton |
Warburton | Warburton & Badger |
Ward | Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd |
Ward | Frederick Ward & Company |
Ward | William J. Ward |
Ward | Charles F. Ward |
Ward | Broomhead & Ward |
Ward | Eyre, Ward & Company |
Ward | Payne Ward & Sons |
Ward | John Ward |
Ward | T. A. and J. Ward |
Wardrobe | Wardrobe & Pearce |
Warner | E. Warner & Company Ltd |
Warren | Warren Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warriss | Warriss & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Waterhouse | John William Waterhouse |
Watkinson | Jonathan Watkinson |
Watkinson | John Watkinson |
Watson | George Watson |
Watson | Linley & Watson |
Watts | John Watts (Sheffield & London) Ltd |
Webb | Mappin & Webb Ltd |
Webber | Webber & Hill |
Webster | William Webster & Son |
Webster | Steer & Webster |
Webster | Oliver and Webster |
Wells | Sarah Wells & Sons |
Wentworth | The Wentworth Plate Co Ltd |
Westby | John Westby & Company |
Westby | Joseph Westby & Company Ltd |
Wheatley | Wheatley Brothers Ltd |
Wheatley | Walter Wheatley |
Wheeldon | John Wheeldon & Co Ltd |
Whitaker | G. H. Whitaker & Company |
White | Matthew White |
White | W. White & Son |
Whiteaway | Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co Ltd |
Whiteley | Tricket, Haslehurst, Whiteley, & Pryor |
Whiteley | James Turner Whiteley |
Whiteley | Hardy & Whiteley |
Wigfall | John Wigfall & Company |
Wigfall | Thomas Wigfall |
Wigfull | Fry & Wigfull Ltd |
Wigfull | Lee & Wigfull (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wild | Hiram Wild Ltd |
Wild | James Wild & Son |
Wild | William Wild |
Wild | James P. Wild |
Wilding | Robert F. Wilding & Co |
Wilkin | George Wilkin |
Wilkins | John Wilkins |
Wilkins | Harry Wilkins |
Wilkinson | Henry Wilkinson & Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | William Wilkinson & Sons Ltd |
Wilkinson | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Roberts & Co |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Sword Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | Benjamin Wilkinson |
Willey | William Willey & Sons |
Willgoose | H. Willgoose & Company |
Williams | Alfred Williams |
Williams | Lindsay Williams |
Williamson | Albert Williamson |
Williamson | Charles Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Walter Williamson |
Williamson | S Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Williamson Bros |
Williamson | John Williamson |
Williamson | Benjamin Williamson |
Willis | Mark Willis & Son Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Frith |
Wilson | Wilson & Pitt |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth, Ellison & Company |
Wilson | Joseph Wilson |
Wilson | Stephenson & Wilson Ltd |
Wilson | Travis, Wilson & Company Ltd |
Wilson | Thomas Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Southern |
Wilson | Herbert Wilson |
Wilson | Wilson & Co |
Wilson | Thomas Henry Wilson |
Wilson | John Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Windle | Windle |
Wingaard | Carl J. Wingaard & Company |
Wingfield | Wingfield, Rowbotham & Company |
Wingfield | Henry Wingfield |
Winks | Benjamin Winks & Sons |
Winks | Pearson & Winks |
Winterbottom | Nixon & Winterbottom Ltd |
Wish | George Wish & Company Ltd |
Withers | Birks, Withers & Sykes |
Wolstenholme | J A Wolstenholme |
Womersley | Frank Womersley |
Wood | Wood & Atkinson |
Wood | Pritchard & Wood |
Wood | Charles Henry Wood |
Wood | Frank Wood (1928) Ltd |
Wood | George Wood & Sons |
Wood | H. Wood & Company |
Wood | George A. Wood |
Wood | Edwin P. Wood Ltd |
Woodcock | Woodcock & Company |
Woodcock | Thomas Woodcock |
Woodhead | George Woodhead & Sons |
Woodhouse | James Woodhouse |
Woolhouse | Joseph Woolhouse |
Woolhouse | William Henry Woolhouse |
Woollen | John Woollen |
World | World Commodities Ltd |
Worth | B. Worth & Sons |
Wostenholm | George Wostenholm & Son Ltd |
Wostenholm | Joseph Wostenholm & Sons Ltd |
Wragg | John Wragg & Son |
Wragg | Thorpe, Wragg & Company |
Wragg | Wragg Brothers |
Wraggs | Wraggs |
Wreaks | Graveley & Wreaks |
Wright | Axe & Wright Ltd |
Wright | W. Wright Silverware (Sheffield) Limited |
Wright | Wright Brothers (Cutlery) Ltd |
Wright | William, John & Robert Wright |
Wright | Wright & Co |
Wright | S Wright & Company (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wright | John Wright and Son |
Wright | J R Wright |
Wyatt | W. Wyatt & Sons |
Wyatt | Carnall & Wyatt |
Wynnel | Wynnel Cutlery |
George Wish was born in Lincoln in 1846, the son of Richard, a bookbinder and bookseller, and his wife, Eliza. The latter was the sister of silversmith George Cutts.
By 1861, George Wish was living at Suffolk Road, Sheffield, with the Cutts’ family. Wish was trained as an electro-plate worker and then became Cutts’ traveller in Europe and India.
In the 1870s, Wish launched his own partnership with William Henry Sampson, but this was dissolved in 1877. In the following year, Wish registered a ....