Numerous Addys are listed in the Company of Cutlers’ apprenticeship records (Leader, 1905-06).  The first Addy to appear in a directory was William, a cutler, in 1787 at Westbar Green.  John Addy & Co was a scissors manufacturer, which was active by 1810.  A directory listing in 1797 – Addy & Co, fine scissor maker, Spring Street (trade mark ‘VIVE ROI’) – may be relevant.   John Addy & Co, scissors maker, ‘expired by the effluxion of time’ in 1810 (though in the previous year Addy & Co was listed at Silver Street).  Besides John Addy, the partners had been William Smith (represented by executors George Naylor Jun. and Daniel Brammall), George Smith, and William Nicholson.  These Smiths may been part of Smiths, Knowles, Creswick & Co.  By 1816, John Addy was working as a scissors manufacturer at Silver Street.  Within two years, his address was Bank Street.  By 1822, he was also a drawing master, which was listed as his sole occupation after 1825.  He died at the start of 1828, aged 67, and was buried at the parish churchyard.  The Sheffield Independent, 12 January, reported his death and added that he was ‘deservedly respected … and [was] for many years a teacher of drawing at Silver Street’.