Thomas Cheetham (1816-1905) was a ‘cutler ironmonger’, who was born in Attercliffe on 10 May 1816. According to information on Ancestry.com (Mace family tree), he was the son of Thomas (1775-1860), a bookkeeper, and Martha née Grayson (1781-1822). In 1852, he was listed as a spring knife manufacturer in Duke Street, with a residence in Matilda Street. He employed nine men and two boys in 1851; and three men a decade later. By then he was based in Castle Hill, but he had also s....