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"Jemmy Queer"


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A Sheffield Victorian Diary

January 8th.1864

Decease of James Hinchliffe "Jemmy Queer" aged 86, Drummer in the Loyal Independent Volunteers 1794.

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REMINISCENCES OF OLD SHEFFIELD

CHAPTER VI. SNIG HILL AND WESTBAR

WRAGG: Tom Smith, whom I have named, subsequently kept the Blue Boar, in

Westbar, and afterwards the Royal Oak, King street. He accumulated

considerable wealth; but Hinchliffe, his senior, a fellow constable and

fellow publican, the father of "Jemmy Queer," was not so successful.

He ended his days in the Shrewsbury Hospital. His family appears to have

been in the scissor trade for more than a century, one of them, Mr.

Robert Hinchliffe, having produced the first pair of hand polished

scissors in 1761.

Edit:

"Smith and Hinchliffe were the proprietors of the bowling green

further on, from which the present street takes its name."

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