Luke Booth was listed as a manufacturer of table, butchers’, cooks’, and palette knives in Norfolk Street in 1845, with a house in Leadmill Street.  Booth also made Bowie knives.  In the early 1850s, Booth’s operations were in Arundel Street, with his home in Shrewsbury Road.  Luke Booth, ‘merchant and manufacturer’, died on 7 May 1855, aged 64, and was buried in the General Cemetery’s unconsecrated ground.  The business continued as Luke Booth & Son, under John Cartwright Booth (Luke’s son).  Until 1859, John partnered Thomas Flavell.  However, in 1863 the firm’s stock and tools were sold at Duke Works, Rockingham Lane, to pay debts (Sheffield Independent, 21 March 1863).  On 31 January 1864, John died, aged 44.  His burial (unconsecrated) was in the General Cemetery.  John Mearbeck became Booth’s ‘successor’.