George Bateman
© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - DS.083
Sheffield directories between 1774 and 1828 show George Bateman (and sons) making pocket knives in Pea Croft / Smithfield, using the trade mark ‘BATEMAN’. The 1828 directory has George Bateman as a pocket-knife maker and brewer in Smithfield. George Bateman, a Smithfield cutler, aged 63, was buried in St Peter’s churchyard on 2 December 1832.