This enterprise was listed in 1833 as a manufacturer of forks, shoe, butcher, cook, and bread knives and steel in Carver Street.  Besides George Drabble, Antipas Stevens (1777-1840) – once victualler at the Golden Ball, Campo Lane – was a partner.  Drabble lived in Glossop Road, then Broomgrove Terrace.  He apparently had military connections.  Thomas Drabble (possibly George’s brother) was an army sergeant, who – with his wife Ann – was enumerated in 1841 at the same Glossop Road address as George.  In 1851, when the next Census was taken, George was visiting Thomas and Ann at the Royal Chelsea Hospital.  Thomas was still in the army and Ann was a nurse.  In Sheffield, George’s business operated for almost twenty years, until his death on 13 August 1852, aged 56.  He was interred in the General Cemetery.  The Sheffield Independent, 21 August 1852, noted that Drabble was sergeant-major of B Troop of the First West Yorkshire Yeomanry.  His burial had been attended by the officers’ band and several members of the Sheffield squadron.  Possibly, James Drabble was George’s son