ZBelcher Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 My people moved to Sheffield from Birmingham in 1791 to start a Rule Making shop in an environment that had a demand for Rules and a lack of people with the skill sets to hand craft a brass and ivory rule for manufacturing. Zachariah Belcher had these skills and was struggling to find a better business location that would enable him to support a wife and family. His home in 1792 was on King Street and he married Martha and they had five sons and a daughter and are buried in the Ecclesall Chapel yard. Zachariah had a rulemaking partnership in Birmingham, name unknown. He did not think well of his Birmingham partnership, but met the love of his life there and he courted her for at least two years while she was in London and he removed to Sheffield. In 1820, Zachariah decided that the business would not support five sons and four of them removed to New York City and Brooklyn to start the Belcher & Sons Rulemaking business there. Two of the sons diversified into a Tailor shop and Glass Making in then Camp Town, New Jersey, now called Irvington. They established a sales office in downtown New York City and placed the manufacturing facility in Brooklyn before moving it to Irvington. Belcher & Sons thrived for almost one hundred years before it was finally bought out by another competitor. Any information that you may have on Bright Street in Sheffield or Belcher Brothers would be appreciated... ---------- Post added 10-05-2014 at 18:56 ---------- P.S. Zachariah lists his Rule shop as "1 Bright Street - Opposite Gaol." About 1848 the street name and # changed (according to his will) to "272 Fitzwilliam Street." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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