Henry Holdsworth (1808-1877) was the son of George (a spoon maker) and Jane.  Henry was enumerated in the 1841 Census in the same trade, living in Copper Street, with his wife Ann.  (William Holdsworth, a spoon manufacturer, rag merchant, and tea dealer in Angel Street in the 1820s and 1830s may have been a precursor.)  By 1860, Henry was operating from Arundel Street and employing a dozen girls.   In the 1860s, Henry brought his sons, Henry and William, into the firm, which manufactured Britannia metal and electro-plate spoons and forks.  In 1867, Holdsworth leased property in Little Sheffield and by 1876 had relocated to Bramall Lane.  He was also a shopkeeper in Copper Street.   Henry Holdsworth died on 19 February 1877, aged 68.   He was buried in the General Cemetery, leaving under £7,000.  The Bramall Lane business was left to his sons.   It employed only two men in 1881, by which time William had retired (aged 38) and passed his £300 share of the business to his brother.   In the 1891 Census, Henry was a 58 year-old spoon and teapot manufacturer and marine store dealer, living with his wife, Alathea, in Hill Street.  The business apparently ceased trading by 1899, when Holdsworth relinquished his lease on the Bramall Lane workshops to Charles Fletcher.