In 1841, W.T. Ashforth (1818-1873) was living in Clarence Street with his wife, Eliza Palmer. His parents were Britannia metal smith James (c.1797-1873) and Mary (c.1797-1827) Ashforth. In 1860, William advertised as a manufacturer of cast iron forks and table and palette knives in Spring Street (though he had moved to Carver Lane). He died on 2 January 1871, aged 53, at Carver Street ‘after a long and painful illness’ (Sheffield Independent, 3 January 1871).  He left under £1,000. In the Census a few months later, she was enumerated in Carver Lane as a fork and palette knife manufacturer, living with her father-in-law, James Ashforth (‘formerly a Britannia metal smith’).  James’s last job was as keeper of the Free Library in Tudor Street. He died on 16 February 1873 at Freedom Hill, Darnall, aged 75.  He was buried in St Thomas’s churchyard, Crookes.