These cutlers made pen and pocket knives.  George Cadman appeared in a directory first in 1774, when he worked ‘near Redcroft’.   In 1787, George Cadman (presumably the same cutler) was at Back Lane, using the trade mark ‘CUPI|D’.  Unravelling his links to other Cadmans is difficult, but he may have been baptised in 1730, the son of George and Peninna, and almost certainly came from Eckington.  His family relationship with his later partner is unclear.  Heaton Cadman was baptised at Eckington in 1750, the son of Benjamin Cadman (bapt.1718-1797), a husbandman at Spinkhill, and Elizabeth née Heaton.  He was apprenticed first to Thomas Osgathorpe, and then to George Cadman, and became a Freeman in 1776.

In the directory (1787), George Cadman was a pen and pocket knife maker at Westfield Lane (trade mark ‘CUPID’ and arrow).  Heaton Cadman was in Campo Lane (trade mark ‘HORA’).   These were presumably the cutlers who went into partnership for the ‘manufacturing and vending of pen knives’, an arrangement that was dissolved in 1798.  George Cadman may have retired.   A cutler of that name was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 14 January 1799.  George Cadman has written his will on 6 October 1798 (proved March 1799).  He gave his sons, George and James, both under 21 years, £50 each (another son, Samuel, had already been given that sum); and his daughter, Mary (wife of Thomas North), the rest of his goods and chattels.

Heaton Cadman apparently left to live in London.  His first wife, Mary née Hardy, had died in 1796.  Three years later he married a widow, Mary Wilks Harvey, at St James’ Church, Clerkenwell.  In 1801, at St Pancras Parish Church he married Ann Papleoo [?], whose surname in the register is not easily deciphered.   Heaton Cadman, of Great St. Andrew’s Street, was buried at St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, on 25 August 1815.  The burial register recorded his age as 66.