The Winterbottoms were involved in bone scale cutting for the handles of knives.  Like Samuel Winterbottom , this business operated in Pond Street.  In 1841, John Winterbottom was living in Bishop Street with his wife Sarah.  He died in Pond Street on 17 June 1858, aged 66.  His son, also named John, was a bone cutter, who in 1851, married Martha née Holmes.  ‘John Winterbottom, Pond Street’, was sometimes stamped on knife blades.  John Winterbottom Jun. died in Shoreham Street on 28 April 1891, aged 61, and was buried in the General Cemetery.   Martha had died in 1887, aged 54.  Their sons included Samuel Winterbottom (b. 1857), who in about 1885 left for Philadelphia and eventually (alongside his sons, Henry, Jack, Ernest, and Fred) operated S. Winterbottom & Sons in Egg Harbor, New Jersey.  The firm provided bone handles to the leading American cutlery companies until 1968 (Clark, 2013¹; Pankiewicz, 2010²).

^1. Clark, David, ‘Winterbottom Bone Knife Handles’, Knife World (February 2013)

^2. Pankiewicz, Philip R, New Jersey Cutlery (The author, 2010)