Charles Wreaks
Charles Wreaks was a scissors manufacturer. He was probably the son of John, a scissor smith, and his wife Elizabeth, who baptised Charles on 19 July 1797 at St Peter’s parish church. Charles’s early career is obscure, but by 1833 he was apparently listed as a pork butcher at 25 Pinstone Street. By 1837, he was still residing at that address, but operating as a scissor smith in Burgess Street. The Census (1841) enumerated him as a scissors manufacturer, Pinstone Street, where he lived with....
