W | J. W. |
W | W & H |
Wade | Wade & Butcher |
Wade | Wade, Wingfield & Rowbotham |
Wain | John Wain & Company Ltd |
Wainwright | Alfred Wainwight & Son |
Wainwright | Alfred Wainwright Ltd |
Wainwright | B. Wainwright & Company |
Wainwright | Wainwright & Staniland |
Wainwright | William Wainwright |
Wakefield | A & S Wakefield |
Walburn | T. Walburn |
Walker | C. P. Walker & Company Ltd |
Walker | Eaton, Walker & Company |
Walker | James Walker Ltd |
Walker | O. Walker & Sons |
Walker | Walker & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Hall Ltd |
Walker | Walker Steel Works Ltd |
Wall | Chapman, Wall & Co Ltd |
Wall | Wall, Kay & Sons Ltd |
Wallace | A. Wallace |
Wallis | Collings & Wallis |
Walliss | W. H. Walliss |
Walsh | John Walsh Ltd |
Walters | John Walters & Company |
Walton | Walton Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warburton | Warburton |
Warburton | Warburton & Badger |
Ward | Broomhead & Ward |
Ward | Charles F. Ward |
Ward | Eyre, Ward & Company |
Ward | Frederick Ward & Company |
Ward | John Ward |
Ward | Payne Ward & Sons |
Ward | T. A. and J. Ward |
Ward | Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd |
Ward | William J. Ward |
Wardrobe | Wardrobe & Pearce |
Waring | Waring & Gillow |
Warner | E. Warner & Company Ltd |
Warranted | Warranted Sheffield Cutlery |
Warren | Warren Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warriss | Warriss & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wastinage | Bradbury & Wastinage |
Waterhouse | John William Waterhouse |
Watkinson | John Watkinson |
Watkinson | Jonathan Watkinson |
Watson | George Watson |
Watson | Linley & Watson |
Watts | John Watts (Sheffield & London) Ltd |
Watts | S & J Watts, Manchester |
Webb | Mappin & Webb Ltd |
Webber | Webber & Hill |
Webster | Oliver and Webster |
Webster | Steer & Webster |
Webster | William Webster & Son |
weekly | The Weekly Telegraph |
Weldun | Weldun |
Wells | Sarah Wells & Sons |
Wentworth | The Wentworth Plate Co Ltd |
Westby | John Westby & Company |
Westby | Joseph Westby & Company Ltd |
Wheatley | W. Wheatley & Co |
Wheatley | Walter Wheatley |
Wheatley | Wheatley |
Wheatley | Wheatley Brothers Ltd |
Wheeldon | John Wheeldon & Co Ltd |
Whitaker | G. H. Whitaker & Company |
White | Matthew White |
White | Timothy Whites & Taylors Ltd |
White | W. White & Son |
Whiteaway | Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co Ltd |
Whiteley | Hardy & Whiteley |
Whiteley | James Turner Whiteley |
Whiteley | Tricket, Haslehurst, Whiteley, & Pryor |
Wigfall | John Wigfall & Company |
Wigfall | Thomas Wigfall |
Wigfull | Fry & Wigfull Ltd |
Wigfull | Lee & Wigfull (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wiggin | J. & J. Wiggin Ltd |
Wild | Carr, Wild & Co Ltd |
Wild | Hiram Wild Ltd |
Wild | James P. Wild |
Wild | James Wild & Son |
Wild | W. Wild & Sons (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wild | William Wild |
Wilderness | Wilderness |
Wilding | Robert F. Wilding & Co |
Wilkin | George Wilkin |
Wilkins | Harry Wilkins |
Wilkins | John Wilkins |
Wilkins | WIlkins & Son |
Wilkinson | Benjamin Wilkinson |
Wilkinson | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Wilkinson | Henry Wilkinson & Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Roberts & Co |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Sword Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | William Wilkinson & Sons Ltd |
Willey | William Willey & Sons |
Willgoose | H. Willgoose & Company |
Williams | Alfred Williams |
Williams | Lindsay Williams |
Williamson | Albert Williamson |
Williamson | Benjamin Williamson |
Williamson | Charles Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | John Williamson |
Williamson | S Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Walter Williamson |
Williamson | Williamson Bros |
Willis | Mark Willis & Son Ltd |
Wilson | Crowther & Wilson |
Wilson | Herbert Wilson |
Wilson | James Wilson & Son (Ironmongers) Ltd |
Wilson | John Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Joseph Wilson |
Wilson | Stephenson & Wilson Ltd |
Wilson | Thomas Henry Wilson |
Wilson | Thomas Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Travis, Wilson & Company Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Co |
Wilson | Wilson & Frith |
Wilson | Wilson & Pitt |
Wilson | Wilson & Southern |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth & Moss |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth, Ellison & Company |
Windle | Windle |
Wingaard | Carl J. Wingaard & Company |
Wingfield | Henry Wingfield |
Wingfield | Wingfield, Rowbotham & Company |
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 | Charles Henry Wood |
Wood | Edwin P. Wood Ltd |
Wood | Frank Wood (1928) Ltd |
Wood | George A. Wood |
Wood | George Wood & Sons |
Wood | H. Wood & Company |
Wood | Pritchard & Wood |
Wood | Wood & Atkinson |
Woodcock | Thomas Woodcock |
Woodcock | Woodcock & Company |
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 | J R Wright |
Wright | John Wright and Son |
Wright | S Wright & Company (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wright | W. Wright Silverware (Sheffield) Limited |
Wright | William, John & Robert Wright |
Wright | Wright & Co |
Wright | Wright Brothers (Cutlery) Ltd |
Wyatt | Carnall & Wyatt |
Wyatt | W. Wyatt & Sons |
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 ....