Joseph Adkins
of Wicker, Sheffield, ironfounder
1805 Bankrupt. '...Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against Joseph Adkins, now or late of the Wicker, in the Parish of Sheffield, in the County of York, Cast Ironfounder, (Partner with John Gray, Samuel Harmer, and Samuel Harmer the Younger, of Sheffield aforesaid, Cast Iron founders)...'[1]