Joseph Cam
Several cutlers and edge tool makers had the name Joseph Cam. This individual was a razor manufacturer, who was apparently first listed in 1833 in Angel Row at the head of South Street. By 1837, when his three-year-old son died, Joseph Cam was working in Charles Street (Sheffield Independent, 26 February 1837). By 1841, he was insolvent and in York Castle jail. Its register recorded his age as 45 (apparently a rounded figure) and his occupation as ‘cutler’. On 17 May 1844, a notice i....
