Joseph Hulley ^1,3,4

  General Notes:

Was the Cutlerer of Kimberworth Top, Rotheram, Sheffield.

In no family records was it anywhere noted that Richard William, The Settler, had a brother in sheffield. This gfact was only disclosed in august 1911 when Thomas Benjamin Hulley of the Edward John Group visited England.

after an attempted contact failed, contact was made through a firm at Holmfirth, Yorkshire. In the firm's letter, a local William Hulley disclosed that he was the grandson of Joseph Hulley, who had lived at Kimberwell Hill Top in the Parish of Rotherham, Sheffield. When this William wrote, he was 81 years of age and had retired from his trade of Cutlerer and was farming at Uthank farm, Holmsfield.

He mentioned in his letter that Joseph had a brother Richard who had gone to South Africa in 1816 or 1817. He further wrote that in 1854 Richard visited them in Sheffield and Richard asked william to accompany him back to south Africa, but william declined.

Joseph was a Cutlerer by trade and so was William and his brother Thomas. All three turned out cutlery on their own accounts and sold to emminent cutlerers Joseph Rogers and sons, Sheffield.

There is silence about any sisters or other brothers. ^1,3,4

Joseph married Mary Walker on 08 Jul 1798 in All Saints, Rotherham, Yorkshire ^1,3.^,4 (Mary Walker was born circa 1774 ^1,3,4 and died in 1831 ^1,3,4.)