This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradshaw, Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HWF.2ACEB/647.864.871.886.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jon...I've only found two HENRY BRADSHAW's in my Sheffield file. - Henry Bradshaw, "Hairdresser" - 1822 Sheffield Directory - Chances are, in those days, a hairdresser was a merchant who bought animal hair (particularly horsehair) and "dressed" it for use in stuffing furniture, etc....not the hairdressers we think of today.. just possible. HENRY BRADSHAW, bapt. at Sheffiled 7 Feb 1803, son of James Bradshaw, sawmaker, and his wife Ann Bradshaw There were early Bradshaws at Mosborough in the Manor of Eckington - In 1679 ROBERT BRADSHAW was a churchwarden at Eckington. In 1713, JOHN BRADSHAW (Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1717) from Brompton le Morthen, inherited lands at Eckington from John Wigfall. About 1760/70 JOHN BRADSHAW, "maltster" of Mosborough, and his wife Mary (dau and coheiress of John Taylor) had a malthouse, or malt kiln. In 1798 William Bradshaw of Mosborough bought an allotment there. In 1803 Timothy Wood of Sheffield, cutler,..Samuel Richardson of Eckington, sicklesmith,..and John Keeton of Mosborough, sicklesmith,, surrendered an allotment called Western Croft, bounded on the south by William Bradshaw's "homestead", to the use of William Bradshaw of Mosborough, maltster. I conpiled a partial list of Bradshaw marriages, births, and burials at Sheffield from about 1774 to 1817, but it's too long to email... you can probably tap that locally... You've got a tremendous local reference library in Sheffield. I've visited there a couple of times and found the staff very helpful. You might look at the Sheffield Directories for 1820 to 1890...they usually list the address for the local residents...It will also list the owners of local beerhouses. Good Hunting !