Joseph Smith
Table knife manufacturer Joseph Smith (1782-1856) was baptised at St Mary & All Saints, Chesterfield, the son of Nathaniel, a barber. The family moved to Sheffield and a brother, Nathaniel, was baptised there in 1784. Joseph became a ‘caster’; his first appearance in a Sheffield directory was in 1818 as an iron founder at Trippet Lane. By 1821, he described himself as a cast iron founder and cutler. In 1825, he was listed at Trippet Lane as ‘late North’, a manufacturer of a....
