English sword/hanger - Parker Field & Sons

[stephen wood]

...actually Parker made edged weapons for the Volunteer Movement.

The hanger only tended to be issued to officers on solitary patrols or during civil disobedience. And they were sharpened.

[Lee]

I have had this communication from a descendent of John Perrin Field:

My great grandmother Marianne Field and her sister came to Australia with their brother John Perrin Field in the mid-19th Century. Their father, John Perrin Field was the principal of the a/m company. John Perrin Field Snr manufactured both swords and guns. His address when active was High Holborn I believe. His son founded a machine factory here in Melbourne in the 1860s or 70s. John Perrin Field was the godson of John Perrin, Lord Mayor of London; his brother was the godson of Nelson. When the company in London folded, Field retired to Bedfordshire. Amongst the property he left was his gold watch which I passed on to my son. When his wife died (Mary Sara) he remarried (his housekeeper). His children disapproved and came en masse to Melbourne.