In 1851, William Cantrell (c.1818-1876) was a 34-year-old table knife hafter, living in Bower Spring.  He advertised in a Sheffield directory of 1860.  His firm was located at  Farriers’ Knife Works, Bathfield Road (Winter Street), as a manufacturer of farriers’ drawing knives, gardeners’ pruning and budding knives, plumbers’ and glaziers’ chipping and hacking knives, and shave hooks.  It was also based at Washington Wheel.  Judging by a letter he wrote from Washington Works to The Sheffield Independent, 26 January 1856, in which he defended the quality of Sheffield cutlery, William Cantrell was a skilled cutler.  But his enterprise may not have fulfilled his expectations and by 1868 he was also a tobacconist in Regent Street.   His son William Valentine Cantrell died in 1870, aged 17.  William himself died on 13 May 1876, aged 58; and his wife, Hannah, died in 1878 (aged 66).  Their remains lie in a grave in the General Cemetery.