Samuel Hancock & Son
By the 1840s, this branch of the Hancock family included working cutlers in Nether Green, Ranmoor. Samuel Hancock, a spring knife manufacturer, was born in Ecclesall in about 1816. The Census (1851) enumerated him with his wife, Hannah, and son, Joseph, in Nether Green. By 1859, Hancock advertised as ‘successor’ to S. & G. Stringer. Joseph (born c. 1846) joined his father in Samuel Hancock & Son. It apparently operated as a typical little-mester operation. According to ....
