Emmanuel Colley
This fine scissors maker was listed in the Sheffield directory (1787) at China [Cheney] Square, near St Paul’s Church, using the trade mark ‘BATH’. This was apparently Emmanuel Colley (bapt. 1744-1813). The apprenticeship records of the Company of Cutlers suggest that his father was Emanuel [sic] and he was apprenticed to scissorsmith John Hinchliffe. He became a Freeman in 1771; and married Ann Hawksley in 1775. Other evidence suggests that Emmanuel was the son of Thomas &ndas....
