William Beet & Sons
William Beet was apparently born in 1820, the son of John (a cutler), and his wife, Elizabeth. William became a horn, buck, and stag horn manufacturer and scale cutter. He partnered George Whitaker in Whitaker & Beet, Rockingham Street. By 1860, Beet was trading alone in Rockingham Street. William and his wife Amelia (1818-1897) had three sons – William (1854-1917), John Henry (1857-1937), and George (1863-1929) – who eventually joined the business. In the late nineteenth century....
