Luke Wheatcroft
Born in Heeley, Luke Wheatcroft may have been baptised at Sheffield parish church on 23 June 1799. If so, his father was Luke (a cutler) and his mother was Mary. He was listed by 1825 as pen knife manufacturer in Upper Heeley. This district was on the outskirts of Sheffield at that time, but ‘by 1830 Nether Heeley was a busy area … In addition to the mill ponds, goyts and dams with their associated grinding wheels and trows, there was also pen and pocket knife manufacture’ (Heeley History....
