Wells & Company
This manufacturer of pocket knives was active in the first decade of the nineteenth century. A dissolution notice posted in 1808 listed the partners as Samuel Wells, Richard Beall, and John Kershaw. Samuel Wells (bapt.1773-1818) was the son of William, a husbandman, of Totley Bents. He was apprenticed to cutler Matthew Oates, Ecclesall, in 1786 and became a Freeman in 1799. Samuel had married Maxwell Chershaw [Kershaw] in 1797. Although the Wells’ partnership had been dissolved, Wells &....
