Jonathan Hobson, a scissors manufacturer, may have been baptised at St Peter’s on 6 October 1786, the son of Jonathan (a grinder) and Martha.  However, the identification is not certain; nor is it clear if this was the ‘Jonathan Hobson’ in partnership with Joseph Cousins in Garden Street (1822) and Brocco Street (1825) making scissors and Britannia metal wares.  That partnership ended in 1825.  Jonathan Hobson, scissor smith, was buried in St Peter’s churchyard on 5 October 1827, aged 41.  His address was Silver Street, where M. Hobson, manufacturer of scissors, was listed in 1828.  In 1834, the Silver Street premises owned by the late Jonathan Hobson – a three-storey dwelling, warehouse, workshop, ‘well adapted for … a cutler or scissors manufacturer’, with its own well – was offered for sale.  The owners were Edward Hobson and James Green (Sheffield Independent, 6 December 1834).