Edward Beet / Thomas Beet
This branch of the Beet family can be traced in directories to 1787, when Edward Beet was listed as a maker of ‘spotted knives’. These knives were made with horn handles ‘spotted’ to look like tortoiseshell. His address was Lambert Croft and his trademark was ‘BEET’, with a picture of a fish hook. He may have been the Edward Beet, ‘cutler’, who was buried in St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 19 October 1813, aged 83. The name Edward Beet reappea....
