A table knife and palette knife manufacturer, Joseph Dodworth (1789-1860) was baptised at Queen Street Congregational Chapel.  His father was Joseph (1757-1831), a cutler; his mother was Anne née South.  His grandfather was William, also a cutler.  

The name ‘Dodworth’ first appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1797, as part of a table knife manufacturer (Calow, Dodworth & Co) at Barley Field.  The Dodworth is not identified.  Joseph Dodworth certainly partnered Alice Hutchinson (also not identified) as a table knife maker.  This was dissolved in 1805, when Joseph stated that he would continue the business ‘at the warehouses’.  By 1811, Joseph Dodworth was listed at Burgess Street.  In 1816, the firm became ‘& Son’ and traded at Burgess Street until at least 1825.   Joseph Dodworth Sen. died at Radford Street and was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 10 April 1831, aged 75.

Joseph Dodworth, presumably his son, was listed in Upper Allen Street in the 1830s.  By the following decade, he was living in Chester Lane, with a workshop in Devonshire Lane.  His brother, James, traded in the same area of backstreets.  In the early 1850s, Joseph’s address was Eldon Street.  The Census (1851) enumerated him as a 63 year-old table knife cutler, living with his 23 year-old daughter, Hellen.  He was apparently the father (by his wife Ellen) of palette knife manufacturer James Dodworth; and Alfred Dodworth (George T. Dodworth).  Joseph Dodworth, ‘manufacturer’, Bolsover Street, died on 17 March 1860, aged 70.  His gravestone can be seen in the unconsecrated section of the General Cemetery.