I. & J. Barber
This pen knife, razor, and table knife manufacturer touted an establishment date of 1802. The founder was Isaac Barber (1788-1854), who had been born in Kimberworth. He was the son of Micah Barber (a Kimberworth collier) and his wife, Barbara, and was baptised on 23 April 1788 at Masbrough Independent Chapel, Rotherham. In 1802, Isaac was apprenticed to Kimberworth knife maker Samuel Skinner and became a Freeman in 1811. He married Mary Skinner (1785-1860), the daughter of his former master, and by 18....
