The Quaker Brady family came from Thorne in Yorkshire.  Jarvis Brady (1861-1812) – sometimes spelled Gervase – was the son of Thomas (1704-1767), a yeoman, and Martha née Lambert.   Jarvis may have had a family link to Robert Brady (see Brady & Marshall), who was also a Quaker from Thorne.  Jarvis was apprenticed to Thomas Colley, a Quaker cutler in Sheffield.  He was granted his Freedom in 1783.  Two years later, Jarvis married Elizabeth Dickenson (1851-1806), who was the daughter of late Sheffield shopkeeper Calen Dickenson.   In 1784, Jarvis had taken on as an apprentice cutler, William Storrs, from Chesterfield (who was supported by a £2 12 shillings premium).  Jarvis briefly joined his former master, Thomas Colley, in Colley & Brady, a table knife manufacturer.   However, by 1788 Jarvis had abandoned cutlery and became a shop-keeper.  He ran a grocery shop, Dickenson & Brady, and then was variously listed as a grocer, tailor, and draper.  Elizabeth Brady died at Townhead Cross in 1806 (York Herald, 30 August 1806).  Her husband died on 27 January 1812, aged 50.  He was afforded a Quaker burial in Sheffield.