Catalogue description J. TINKER & SONS OF THURLSTONE, JOINERS AND UNDERTAKERS

Records of J Tinker & Sons

J Tinker and Sons, Thurlstone, joiners and undertakers

A 30-year closure period applies

On abolition of South Yorkshire County Council on 31 March 1986, the records passed from South Yorkshire County Record Office, by agreement of the four South Yorkshire District Councils, to the custody of Sheffield Archives as lead authority

• Thurlstone, Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire

Although the earliest of these records date from 1833, it is believed that the business was founded in 1827, probably by Uriah Tinker who is described in a directory of 1838 as cabinet maker, and in the census returns of 1841 as joiner and cabinet maker. He was succeeded in the business by his son, John, in 1884, and he in turn was succeeded in 1897 by his son, Obadiah Denton Tinker. In 1932 George Redvers Tinker took over the business from his father. In 1976 the business passed out of the tinker family. From the earliest days the Tinkers made coffins as required; this became an increasingly important part of the business and is reflected in the records by a series of funeral books covering the period 1912 to 1975