W. R. Nutt & Company
William Rufus Nutt (1848-1931) was born in Sheffield. He was enumerated in the Census (1871) in Shortridge Street, living with his widowed mother, Ann Nutt (d.1876, aged 54). His father, William Rufus (born c.1816), had been a cutlery merchant (Glossop & Nutt). William Rufus Sen. was bankrupt in 1843 (Sheffield Independent, 7 October 1843). He was a warehouseman in the Census (1851). His son became a silversmith, who by 1878 was a manufacturer of electro-plated goods at Wen....
