A trade advertisement for Anthony Rotheram (c. 1816-1876) stated that he was ‘many years in the employ of Joseph Rodgers & Sons’.  He appears to have started on his own in 1852, when he was listed as a cutlery manufacturer in Solly Street, with a house in Stanton Broom.  Over the next decade, Rotheram moved first to Coalpit Lane and then Rockingham Street, where he occupied Old Rockingham Works.  He manufactured and sold table, pen, and pocket knives, and razors.  An advertisement in 1868, informatively told its readers: ‘A. R. had the honour of supplying all the Cutlery required for the English Refreshment Stalls at the International Exhibition of 1862.’ He also made cutlery, including spring-knives, from Bessemer steel (Sheffield Independent, 11 April 1862).  Anthony Rotheram lived at Botanic View, Cemetery Road.  When he died on 5 June 1876, aged 60, his trade mark – a picture of weighing scales – was acquired by William Morton & Sons.  Rotheram left under £1,500.