Edward Allison was apparently baptised on 23 January 1799, the son Edward (a grinder) and Rachel.  Edward became a razor manufacturer, who was first listed in 1825.  He worked and lived in Little Sheffield, where he also operated the Barrel public house.  (John Allison, a butcher, gunsmith, and victualler at this time in Fargate and Barker’s Pool, may have been Edward’s brother.)  By the 1830s, Edward’s works address was in Rocking-ham Lane, with a residence in Regent Street.  The Sheffield Independent, 24 May, 1834, advertised for sale an ‘excellent’ warehouse and workshop in Carver Street (with the premises extending to Rockingham Lane), ‘late in the occupation of Mr Edward Allison, razor maker’.  He was insolvent and filed for bankruptcy on 24 June 1834.  He did not appear in directories subsequently, but an individual of that name was buried in St Paul’s churchyard on 5 June 1845, aged 46.  He had lived in Snig Hill.   A razor, with piqué-worked bone scales and stamped ‘ALLISON’, with ‘W crown R’, has survived (information from Zak Jarvis).