Joseph Farr (1833-1909) was born in Sheffield and manufactured pen and pocket knives.  His works address was Hollis Croft after 1868.  (Other cutlers with the same name manufactured spring knives in Lambert Street, 1817, Hereford Street, 1822, and Pea Croft, 1833/1837, but Joseph’s relationship with them – if any – is unknown.).   This Joseph Farr lived mostly in Brightmore Street, where he and his wife, Ann (c.1835-1908), brought up a large family.  They had at least five sons, including William Henry Farr.  Few details are available on Joseph’s career.  However, in 1876 a press report on a fire in his workshops stated that, alongside another cutler named Abraham Stringer, Farr occupied a shop in the upper stories of a building belonging to cutlery manufacturer Stephen Bacon.  Access was via a yard (Sheffield Independent, 24 January 1876).  Joseph Farr, ‘cutler’, Court 2, Brightmore Street, died on 25 March 1909, aged 76, and was buried in the General Cemetery.   Some of his sons became cutlers, so the Farrs continued to be listed in directories after Joseph’s death.