John Wreaks
John Wreaks was a scissors manufacturer (1762-1829), who may have been the son of Marmaduke Wreaks. The latter was listed in 1787 as a hairdresser and toy man in High Street. If so, John was apprenticed to Robert Hinchliffe (possibly this one) in 1776 and became a Freeman of the Company of Cutlers in 1787 (Leader, 1905-061). In the 1790s, John Wreaks was in partnership as a scissors manufacturer with John Tillotson and Robert Smith. This was dissolved in 1796 and Wreaks & Tillotson was launched.&n....
