Joseph Swallow
Joseph Swallow (bapt.1746-1820) was born at Bradfield, the son of Joseph, a cutler. He was baptised at Stannington Presbyterian Chapel. He was apprenticed to cutler Nathaniel (or Nathan) Dixon and was granted his Freedom in 1768. Joseph Swallow’s mark was a picture of a fish hook and the letter ‘I’ (presumably ‘J’). He was listed in a Sheffield directory in 1774 as a spotted pen knife cutler at Westbar Green; and in 1781 and 1787 as a cutler at Smithfield. He contin....
