Joseph Holmes & Company
Joseph Holmes (c.1783-1855) was born at Bakewell, Derbyshire. He may have been the son of John and Ann Homes and baptised on 16 March 1783 at St Oswald’s, Ashbourne. One cutler in the apprenticeship listings seems a match: Joseph Holmes, the son of John, a labourer, from Rowland (a village near Bakewell), who in 1798 was apprenticed to James Colley, a scissor maker. Joseph Holmes was listed in 1818 as a scissors manufacturer at Broad Lane. Between 1821 and 1828 (according to directories) Joseph....
