Samuel Bennett’s first appearance in a directory was in 1811, when Samuel Bennett & Co was listed at Sycamore Street as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, fruit and sportsman’s knives, fleams, razors, desk knives, with moveable handles.  He may have been the Samuel Bennett, whose name was on a published list of Recognizances (Sheffield Register, 2 April 1790).   He was joined in Samuel Bennett & Co by William Harwood, Lewis Thomas, and Peter Spurr, but this was dissolved in 1813.  He next partnered Benjamin Eyre, but this ended within a couple of years (London Gazette, 20 January 1816).  In the directory of 1816, he was a pen and pocket knife cutler at Tudor Street.   His name then disappeared.  Presumably, Samuel Bennett died.  A cutler of that name (address Hollis Croft) was buried at St Peter & St Paul on 10 January 1818, aged 85.  In 1817, only Mary Bennett, pen and pocket knife cutler, was listed at Tudor Street.  In 1821, she was a widow (with no listed occupation) at Sycamore Street.  St Peter & St Paul burial register listed Mary Bennett (widow), who died at the Workhouse, and was buried on 25 March 1826 (aged 74).  The burial of Mary Bennett, widow, at St Paul’s Church on 25 April 1816 should also be noted.