Wade | Wade & Butcher |
Wade | Wade, Wingfield & Rowbotham |
Wain | John Wain & Company Ltd |
Wainwright | Wainwright & Staniland |
Wainwright | Wainwright |
Wakefield | A & S Wakefield |
Walburn | T. Walburn |
Walker | Eaton, Walker & Company |
Walker | C. P. Walker & Company Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Hall Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Walker | James Walker Ltd |
Walker | O. Walker & Sons |
Walker | Walker Steel Works Ltd |
Wall | Wall, Kay & Sons Ltd |
Wall | Chapman, Wall & Co Ltd |
Wallace | A. Wallace |
Wallis | Collings & Wallis |
Walliss | W. H. Walliss |
Walters | John Walters & Company |
Walton | Walton Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warburton | Warburton |
Warburton | Warburton & Badger |
Ward | Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd |
Ward | Frederick Ward & Company |
Ward | William J. Ward |
Ward | Charles F. Ward |
Ward | Broomhead & Ward |
Ward | Eyre, Ward & Company |
Ward | Payne Ward & Sons |
Ward | John Ward |
Ward | T. A. and J. Ward |
Wardrobe | Wardrobe & Pearce |
Warner | E. Warner & Company Ltd |
Warren | Warren Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warriss | Warriss & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Waterhouse | John William Waterhouse |
Watkinson | Jonathan Watkinson |
Watkinson | John Watkinson |
Watson | George Watson |
Watson | Linley & Watson |
Watts | John Watts (Sheffield & London) Ltd |
Webb | Mappin & Webb Ltd |
Webber | Webber & Hill |
Webster | William Webster & Son |
Webster | Steer & Webster |
Webster | Oliver and Webster |
Wells | Sarah Wells & Sons |
Wentworth | The Wentworth Plate Co Ltd |
Westby | John Westby & Company |
Westby | Joseph Westby & Company Ltd |
Wheatley | Wheatley Brothers Ltd |
Wheatley | Walter Wheatley |
Wheeldon | John Wheeldon & Co Ltd |
Whitaker | G. H. Whitaker & Company |
White | Matthew White |
White | W. White & Son |
Whiteaway | Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co Ltd |
Whiteley | Tricket, Haslehurst, Whiteley, & Pryor |
Whiteley | James Turner Whiteley |
Whiteley | Hardy & Whiteley |
Wigfall | John Wigfall & Company |
Wigfall | Thomas Wigfall |
Wigfull | Fry & Wigfull Ltd |
Wigfull | Lee & Wigfull (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wild | Hiram Wild Ltd |
Wild | James Wild & Son |
Wild | William Wild |
Wild | James P. Wild |
Wilding | Robert F. Wilding & Co |
Wilkin | George Wilkin |
Wilkins | John Wilkins |
Wilkins | Harry Wilkins |
Wilkinson | Henry Wilkinson & Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | William Wilkinson & Sons Ltd |
Wilkinson | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Roberts & Co |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Sword Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | Benjamin Wilkinson |
Willey | William Willey & Sons |
Willgoose | H. Willgoose & Company |
Williams | Alfred Williams |
Williams | Lindsay Williams |
Williamson | Albert Williamson |
Williamson | Charles Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Walter Williamson |
Williamson | S Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Williamson Bros |
Williamson | John Williamson |
Williamson | Benjamin Williamson |
Willis | Mark Willis & Son Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Frith |
Wilson | Wilson & Pitt |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth, Ellison & Company |
Wilson | Joseph Wilson |
Wilson | Stephenson & Wilson Ltd |
Wilson | Travis, Wilson & Company Ltd |
Wilson | Thomas Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Southern |
Wilson | Herbert Wilson |
Wilson | Wilson & Co |
Wilson | Thomas Henry Wilson |
Wilson | John Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Windle | Windle |
Wingaard | Carl J. Wingaard & Company |
Wingfield | Wingfield, Rowbotham & Company |
Wingfield | Henry Wingfield |
Winks | Benjamin Winks & Sons |
Winks | Pearson & Winks |
Winterbottom | Nixon & Winterbottom Ltd |
Wish | George Wish & Company Ltd |
Withers | Birks, Withers & Sykes |
Wolstenholme | J A Wolstenholme |
Womersley | Frank Womersley |
Wood | Wood & Atkinson |
Wood | Pritchard & Wood |
Wood | Charles Henry Wood |
Wood | Frank Wood (1928) Ltd |
Wood | George Wood & Sons |
Wood | H. Wood & Company |
Wood | George A. Wood |
Wood | Edwin P. Wood Ltd |
Woodcock | Woodcock & Company |
Woodcock | Thomas Woodcock |
Woodhead | George Woodhead & Sons |
Woodhouse | James Woodhouse |
Woolhouse | Joseph Woolhouse |
Woolhouse | William Henry Woolhouse |
Woollen | John Woollen |
World | World Commodities Ltd |
Worth | B. Worth & Sons |
Wostenholm | George Wostenholm & Son Ltd |
Wostenholm | Joseph Wostenholm & Sons Ltd |
Wragg | John Wragg & Son |
Wragg | Thorpe, Wragg & Company |
Wragg | Wragg Brothers |
Wraggs | Wraggs |
Wreaks | Graveley & Wreaks |
Wright | Axe & Wright Ltd |
Wright | W. Wright Silverware (Sheffield) Limited |
Wright | Wright Brothers (Cutlery) Ltd |
Wright | William, John & Robert Wright |
Wright | Wright & Co |
Wright | S Wright & Company (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wright | John Wright and Son |
Wright | J R Wright |
Wyatt | W. Wyatt & Sons |
Wyatt | Carnall & Wyatt |
Wynnel | Wynnel Cutlery |
Benjamin Williamson was born in Sheffield in 1789 and baptised in the Cathedral on 7 June. He married Elizabeth Simpson in November 1807 in Rotherham Minster and had at least one child, Charles, in 1809. Charles in turn married Frances Maria Smith on 29 December 1825 at St Mary, Handsworth and had 8 children. Both Benjamin and Charles were table knife cutlers.
In 1841, Benjamin was living with his wife in Kenyon Alley and in 1851 at 34 Charlotte Street with Charles and his family. According to various Directories, B....