Hatfield & Morton
This enterprise was a manufacturer of pen and sportsman’s knives at Scotland Street. The partners were William Hatfield and John Morton. Their background is obscure. The name William Hatfield occurs in connection with several Sheffield cutlery partnerships, but it is not always possible to say if it was the same man. The following chronology is, therefore, somewhat tentative. William Hatfield may have been born about 1760. He married Sarah Betts in 1781. Apprenticeship re....
