A little more information following my blog of 2nd July about Jacob Roberts baptised 1697. On the database of cutlers at sheffieldrecordsonline, he is noted as an apprentice cutler in 1709. We know it is him as his father is recorded as Samuel Roberts of Stubbin House, of whom he was the ninth child. Incredibly, he is followed there by his son Jacob, born 1726, apprenticed as a cutler in 1740, and then by his son Jacob, born 1764, apprenticed in 1785.
The middle of the three Jacobs is referred to in Edward Law's Sheffield Silversmiths Part 1 : "Jacob and Samuel (his brother) had been in partnership together from 1777 as makers of table knives and forks". He then became a partner in a firm of silversmiths with Samuel, John Eyre and Joseph Beldon who registered a silver mark on 8th January 1781. Unfortunately, Jacob died later that year.
His son continued to work for Roberts, Eyre, Beldon and Co and particularly for Joseph Beldon who was the London partner, by running the business in Sheffield. Jacob married Mary Ann Morton, the daughter of Richard Morton, another silversmith. In 1814 Jacob is noted as the treasurer at the first meeting of the general committee of the Sheffield Mercantile and Manufacturing Union. His son Sidney is also recorded as a silversmith on his death certificate.
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