Jonathan Beet & Sons
This branch of the Beet family came from Wortley, where John Beet was a husbandman. He married Hannah Smith and had several sons, some of whom were apprenticed as cutlers. Baptismal and apprenticeship records show that John’s sons, Thomas (bapt.1758) and Jonathan (1762-1837), were apprenticed to Thomas Smith, a cutler at Broad Lane. Jonathan became a Freeman in 1774. In the Sheffield directory (1787), Widow Beet & Sons was listed at Broad Lane, using the mark ‘BEET’.&....
