Charles Sanderson (bapt.1791-1867) was the son of John (a cutler) and Margaret.  He partnered Thomas Makin in Makin & Sanderson, which in 1821 was listed as a manufacturer of shoe, butchers’, and cooks’ knives at Hollis Croft.   Charles resided at Cornhill.   Makin & Sanderson expanded its range of products to include forks, table knives, and files.  But it was dissolved in 1831.  In the Sheffield directory (1833), Charles was listed as a maker of files and table, shoe and butcher knives, and steels at Hollis Croft (with a house in Solly Street).  Curiously, in 1836 a partnership – Sanderson & Makin, Hollis Croft – was dissolved by Charles Makin and Thomas Makin.  Apparently, the ‘Makin’ in this partnership was Thomas William Makin (1809-1876), who was the son of Master Cutler James Makin.

Besides file and fork manufacture, Charles Sanderson branched into spindle manufacture, with Matthew Brookes.  Sanderson & Brookes was located at Oughtibridge.  In 1842, however, this venture triggered Sanderson’s bankruptcy.  He moved to Wharncliffe Side, where he was a beerhouse keeper and an overlooker for George Sanderson, a steel manufacturer.  Charles later worked as a traveller, but mainly as a publican.  He operated the Black Bull at Hollis Croft and then, between 1857 and 1864, the King & Miller, Norfolk Lane.  According to Leader (1876)¹, he was a recipient of a pension from the Iron & Hardware Charity.  He died on 5 October 1867, aged 76, at the residence of his daughter at Manchester.  He left an estate of £407.

^1. Leader, Robert E, Reminiscences of Old Sheffield (Sheffield, 2nd edn 1876)