Barnard & Company
This Quaker family was based at Upperthorpe, which was then on the outskirts of Sheffield. One of its members, John Barnard (1723-1789), operated a tannery. A surveyor’s map (1781), which is extant at Sheffield City Archives, indicated that John Barnard held farmland at Upperthorpe. His sons, by his marriage to Hannah Wilson (1730-1793) – Daniel, John, Robert, and Wilson – were apprenticed as cutlers. Initially, John’s business as a tanner prospered, but he was bankrupt in 1785....
