27 Bankside, described as coppersmiths, engineers and millwrights, until 1891 when a sale of its assets by order of the mortgagees took place. No subsequent reference to the company has been found. Daughters of James Shears As well as his two sons who succeeded to the management of the business, James Shears had several daughters, three of whom married brewers, which demonstrates how close the relationship between coppersmiths and brewers was. Rebecca Shears (1786-1861) was married to James Spurrell (1776–1840) and Hannah Shears (1790–1882) to Charles Spurrell – James and Charles were brothers and members of the Spurrell family of Norfolk; they were also senior employees at the Anchor Brewery, Southwark. As a widow Rebecca married George Cosier Fletcher. James Shears's youngest daughter, Lydia (1794–1855), was married to John Gray (1791–1826) of the Gray and Dacre Brewery, West Ham, Essex. As further evidence of the close relationship between the coppersmiths of the Shears family and the brewers of the Spurrell family, James Shears's eldest son Daniel Towers Shears married Frances Spurrell, the youngest sister of James and Charles Spurrell (so three Shears siblings married three Spurrell siblings). Furthermore, Rebecca, the eldest daughter of James Spurrell and Rebecca Shears, went on to become the wife of another important brewer, James Watney. Descendants of James Shears Reverend Frederick Spurrell, M.A., A.K.C. (1824–1902), grandson Reverend Augustus Shears, M.A. (1827–1911), grandson James Watney, M.P. (1832–1886), great-grandson Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, F.G.S. (1842–1915), great-grandson Reverend Ernest Henry Shears, M.A. (1849–1917), grandson Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940), great-great-grandson Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell, M.B., M.A., F.Z.S. (1877–1918), great-great-grandson Katherine Watney (1870–1958), great-great-granddaughter Constance Watney (1878–1947), great-great-granddaughter Major-General Philip James Shears, C.B. (1887–1972), great-great-great-grandson Arthur Joseph Wrigley, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. (1902–1983), great-great-great-grandson References English coppersmiths Manufacturing companies based in London Councilmen and Aldermen of the City of London