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 reappeared in a directory in 1818 as a fish-hook pocket knife maker in Trippet Lane.  He may have been the previous Edward’s son (bapt. 1760), who became a cutler/publican at the Seven Stars in Trippet Lane.  Benjamin Beet – another cutler/publican – may have been his son.  Edward died on 18 January 1826, aged 65, and was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard. 

Thomas Beet (presumably Edward’s son) next took over the Seven Stars and continued to make spotted knives with a fish hook mark.   In the Census (1841), Thomas was enumerated in Trippet Lane as a 50 year-old victualler, living with wife Hannah and several children.   In 1841, Seven Stars (including its brewhouse, copper, and malt mill) was offered ‘To Let’ (Sheffield Independent, 18 December 1841).  Thomas may have retired.  He died ‘after a lingering illness’ on 16 May 1845, aged 57, and was buried at St Peter & St Paul.  Two of his sons, Edward (1818-1890) and Thomas (1824-1886), became cutlers.   In 1851, Edward was a cutlery and ‘patent convolutor’ manufacturer at Duke Street, but later became a shopkeeper.  Thomas was a surgical instrument manufacturer, until he found work as a banker’s clerk.