Ann Pass listed in 1774 as a scissors maker at Cheney Square, trade mark ‘PASS’.  Her husband may have been Joseph Pass, who became a Freeman in 1751 (he was the son of Joseph, a scissorsmith).  Joseph Pass may have died in 1777 (a scissorsmith of that name was buried at the parish church on 31 October).  By 1787, Ann Pass & Son, maker of ‘common’ scissors, was operating at Coalpit Lane, trade mark ‘PASS HERO’.  In 1797, she was listed as Widow Pass at 45 Trippet Lane, still using ‘PASS HERO’.   Ann Pass, ‘widow’, died in 1804.  She was buried at St Paul’s churchyard on 8 November.  In her will, she bequeathed her dwelling house and workshop in Trippet Lane to her son, Joseph.   A hearth of working tools and two workshops in the courtyard of the dwelling house went to Joseph, but the rental income from the two workshops was to go to her daughter (Bracey, 2016¹).  The Pass scissors makers did not appear in directories after 1797.

^1. Bracey, Laura R, ‘Women Workers in Sheffield’s Metal Trades, c1742-1867’ (Sheffield University PhD, 2016)