The family apparently came from Lincolnshire.  Richard Hotham (1790-1854), though, was born in Sheffield, the son of Richard (a cutler) and Alice née Hunt.  Richard Jun.’s brother, William (1788-1808), died in Jamaica.  His widow, Susanna née Boucher, then married Richard.  In 1816 and in the early 1820s, he appeared in directories as a horn haft and scale presser at Pond Street.  But by 1837, he was listed at Wilkinson Street as a bookkeeper.  By 1841, he was a table knife and razor manufacturer at 55 West Street.  On 2 September 1842, aged 64, Susanna died of a ‘bowel complaint’ (according to the General Cemetery register).  Three years later, Richard was bankrupt and was forced to sell his stock, working tools, and household furniture at 55 West Street.  In the Census (1851), he was in lodgings at Prospect Place and working as a merchant’s clerk.   He died from ‘disease of the lungs’ at Crookesmoor Side on 26 June 1854, aged 64.  He was buried with the remains of Susanna at the General Cemetery.