Information on this cutler is scanty.  However, he is notable because in the Sheffield directory (1774) he is one of only three makers listed as a ‘cuttoe’ maker (the others were Joseph Wilson and William Gillat).  This word (probably a modification of the French ‘couteaux’) referred to a clasp (pocket) knife.  Such a knife, made by Waterhouse with a square-tipped blade, is illustrated in Moore (2021)¹.  Waterhouse, who operated at Scotland Street, also made table knives.   He probably became a Freeman in 1758, when Jeremiah Waterhouse registered the mark ‘+ O A’.   He may have died in 1795.  An individual of that name was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 6 November.   Jeremiah’s name was absent from the Sheffield directory in 1797.

^1. Moore, Simon, ‘A Synopsis of Pocket Knives in History and the Evolution of Spring-backed Pocket Knives in Sheffield During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’, Journal of Antique Metalware Society 26 (2021)