Thomas Cheetham (1816-1905) was a ‘cutler ironmonger’, who was born in Attercliffe on 10 May 1816.  According to information on Ancestry.com (Mace family tree), he was the son of Thomas (1775-1860), a bookkeeper, and Martha née Grayson (1781-1822).   In 1852, he was listed as a spring knife manufacturer in Duke Street, with a residence in Matilda Street.  He employed nine men and two boys in 1851; and three men a decade later.  By then he was based in Castle Hill, but he had also started dealing in tin ware and ironmongery at New Market Hall (or Norfolk Market).  He continued to work into the 1890s, but by 1901 was living on his own means.  He died at his residence in Mandeville Street, Darnall, on 21 January 1902, aged 88.  He left £243.