William Beardshaw (bapt. 1753-1827) was the son of John, a cutler.  He was apprenticed to his father and became a Freeman in 1776.  He was issued with the trade mark, ‘PASTO’.  His first appearance in a directory was in 1787, when he was a pen and pocket knife maker at Silver Street.  In 1797, he was listed at Broad Lane; in 1811 at Allen Street; and in 1816 at Radford Street.  At the start of the 1820s, he was again listed as pen and pocket knife cutler at Allen Street.  (Allen and Radford Streets were adjacent, so directory listings may refer to the same address.) The Sheffield Independent, 28 April 1827, stated that William Beardshaw had died ‘lately’ at Radford Street.  He was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 25 April 1827, aged 74.