Stephen Constantine (c.1788-1853) was a pen and pocket knife manufacturer, who worked and lived in Hollis Croft.   There is some circumstantial evidence that, like Richard Constantine, he came from Giggleswick.   According to Leader (1905-06)¹, Stephen Constantine was the son of William (a butcher), of Bridgehouses in Sheffield, and was apprenticed to William Collier, a knife maker, in 1801 (though he never became a Freeman).  

He was first listed in a directory in 1822.  His wife was Elizabeth (c.1791-1828) and in that year the burial registers of St Peter & St Paul show that they lost a son and daughter, aged seven and ten, respectively.  Elizabeth died on 19 September 1828, aged 37, after bearing ‘a long and painful illness with Christian resignation’ (Sheffield Independent, 20 September 1828).  Her husband apparently prospered initially – he owned five dwelling-houses in Harvest Lane.  But these were offered for sale in 1833, when Constantine became insolvent.  In 1836, he attended the debtor’s court over an alleged unpaid debt, though the case was dismissed (Sheffield Independent, 25 June 1836).  Stephen lived at Eckington in 1841, where he worked as a pen knife cutler.  In the Census (1851), he was enumerated in South Street, when he was working as a warehouseman.  He died on 12 September 1853, aged 65, and was buried with the remains of his family in St Peter & St Paul churchyard.

^1. Leader, R E, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the County of York (Sheffield, 1905-6)