History
Extract from From Directory & Topography of Sheffield, 1862
Post office: James Foers, letters arrive from Rotherham at 8.30 a.m. and are despatched by foot post by 5.30 p.m.
John Duckenfield, Gardener
James Foers, Joiner, Wheelwright, Shopkeeper and P.O.
John Hill, White Swan
George Hinchliffe, Wheelwright and Joiner
John Hogg, Gardener and Filesmith
Thomas Hopwood, Corn Miller
John Martin Blacksmith
B. Mercer, Stone Merchant
Francis Moody, Butcher
Thomas Rickett, Gardener
James Sewell
Henry Skelton, Shopkeeper
Joseph Skelton, Tailor and Shopkeeper
John Tinker, Drill Owner
John Travis, Mason
Rev. B. Watkins, Rectory
John Wheat, Solicitor
Ann Womersley, National School
Thomas Hill, Boot and Shoemaker
Thomas Marshall, Boot and Shoemaker
Farmers
Misses Boomer, Spaw House
William Cooper, Old Flatts
William Earnshaw
Thomas Hopwood
William Jackson
Charles Morton, Brook House
John Rodgers
Elizabeth Taylor
In 1861 George Appleyard of Treeton was mentioned in archived documents as a Corn Miller. He bought a cornmill, starch house and British gum manufactory (565 sq. yds.) near the Corn and Butter Market- later converted into a brewery known as Rother Brewery Reference: 213/C/49/6. By 1870 he lived at Canklow