William Webster
The name William Webster appears twice (1755 and 1760) in the eighteenth-century roll call of Masters Cutler. The second Webster was apparently the son of the first. ‘Webster’ is a relatively common name in the Sheffield cutlery industry and little information is available on these Masters. Even Robert E. Leader (1905-06)1 admitted to being flummoxed by the ‘perplexities’ of the family’s ancestry. William Webster appeared only once in directories: that was in 1787 a....
