Samuel Hurst
Samuel Hurst (1829-1901) was born at Great Longstone, Derbyshire, the son of Nicholas (a shopkeeper) and his wife, Elizabeth. Samuel had moved to Sheffield by 1851, when he was enumerated in the Census as a pen knife cutler at Infirmary Road. In the following year, he married Miss Jane Dunn. By 1860, Hurst was a spring knife manufacturer at Rockingham Street, where he employed one man. He was also briefly the landlord at the Rose & Crown, Holly Street. However, he became insolvent in 1....
