John Yeomans
John Yeomans was baptised on 19 November 1764, the son of Richard (a tanner) and his wife, Sarah. According to Bell (1909)1, John was the third of sixteen children; and added that Richard (who died in 1814, aged 76), worked at Millsands. John was apprenticed to William Fowler, a scissors smith, and granted his Freedom in 1787. A decade later he was working in Norfolk Row, using the mark ‘RIY’. He was listed as a fine scissors maker in Fargate between 1811 and 1816. Subsequently, he w....
