Edward Kay
Edward Kay was probably the son of Joseph Kay and he was baptised on 13 July 1769 at Nether Chapel, Norfolk Street. In 1800 he married Ann Sykes, the daughter of J. Sykes, a Sheffield silver cutler. One of his first business ventures may have been in partnership with Jonathan Marshall and Thomas Shaw as edge tool and saw makers. The partnership was dissolved in 1792. A later partnership, this time as cutlers and factors with Samuel Stanley and Francis Lister, was dissolved in 1807.Kay appears in a Sheffield trade directory f....
