Stanley, Lister & Kay
Scraps of information from parish records suggest that Samuel Stanley may have been baptised in 1737 at Rotherham – possibly the son of John (a joiner). After training under two cutlers – John and William Loy (possibly of William Loy & Co) – Samuel Stanley became a Freeman in 1770. In the 1780s, he appeared in directories as a table knife cutler at Scotland Street, using the trade mark ‘S STANLEY’. By 1797, Stanley, Lister & Kay was listed as a table knife maker at Norf....
