Jared Yates (1786-1842) was baptised at Masbrough Independent (Congregational) Chapel, the son of Samuel, a bookkeeper, and his wife, Mary.   Jared (the name would be variously spelled in written sources – sometimes even as Gerard) was apprenticed to knife maker Joseph Yates in 1801 (though Jared did not take out his Freedom until 1840).  In 1813, he married Eleanor Archer.  Jared was involved in several cutlery partnerships.   Perhaps the first was Yates & Hardesty (possibly George Hardesty) This table knife manufacturer was listed in 1818 at 12 Eyre Street, though by then Jared was apparently in partnership with Samuel Ebenezer Kebberling at Pinstone Street.   This was dissolved in 1818.  Jared continued to trade at 12 Eyre Street, though by 1822 Gerard [sic?] Yates was listed making table knives at 15 Arundel Street.   

Jared’s later activities in the 1820s are obscure, but by 1833 he was part of Turner, Yeomans & Yates.  This enterprise, which sold and made a wide range of cutlery goods and tools, involved Thomas Turner and John Yeomans and was based at Suffolk Road, where Gerard (sic) resided as a merchant.  This was dissolved in 1835, though Jared became part of Yeomans, Yates & Standfield, which was at Eyre Lane.  Jared was now living at Howard Street.  He left this partnership in 1839.   (The firm later became Standfield, Newbould & Baildon)  

Jared Yates died at 35 Howard Street on 24 June 1842, aged  55.   He was apparently buried at Nether Chapel, alongside several of his children (he and his wife, Eleanor, had a dozen offspring).  A flat gravestone in the General Cemetery – over the grave containing the remains of Eleanor (d. 15 January 1870, aged 76) – memorialises Jared Yates’ family (and the related Drabbles).  After Jared’s death, Joshua Yates, was listed in 1845 and 1849 as a table knife manufacturer at 35 Howard Street.  It is difficult to identify this individual, though Jared and Eleanor had a son, Joseph (1830-1867), who left Sheffield in about 1853.  He died in New Zealand in 1867, when he was an inspector of gold field agencies for the Bank of New South Wales (Sheffield Independent, 30 November 1867).  He left under £300.