George Addy (c.1769-1835) was based at Pea Croft.  His early life is obscure and his relationship (if any) with other Addys is unclear.  In 1811, Addy & Co was listed manufacturing table knives at Meadow Street.  By 1816, George Addy was involved with John Brownill and William Taylor as Addy, Brownill & Taylor.   The partners were table knife cutlers and factors at Smithfield (and later Hollis Croft).  These arrangements – which also involved at various times William Thorpe, Thomas Turner, William Rowley, and Hall Overend – were dissolved in 1818 (see Thorpe, Wragg & Co). 

George Addy & Sons (or more usually ‘Son’) appeared after 1821 at Pea Croft.   George’s son, John (1797-1876), was apparently baptised on 12 November 1797.  His mother was Rose.  John may have been apprenticed to his father: if so, he was granted his Freedom in 1811.  As a merchant and manufacturer, the firm sold table knives and forks, silver and plated dessert knives, pen and pocket knives, and ‘Old English’ razors.   A silver mark was registered in 1825.   In 1832, George and John dissolved their partnership.  In the directory in the following year, George Addy & Son was still listed at Pea Croft (though the warehouse and workshops were offered to let in 1834, because George Addy had vacated the factory).   

John Addy was listed separately in 1833 as a merchant and table knife, razor, and umbrella hook manufacturer at Scotland Street.  Within months, though, he was insolvent (Sheffield Independent, 14 June 1834).  George Addy resided in Gell Street, though he died at Beet Street after a few days’ illness on 20 January 1835, aged 66.  He presumably died at the house of his brother-in-law, Michael Wing (a file manufacturer), who was appointed executor.  George Addy was buried at the parish churchyard.   In 1837, George Addy & Son was listed as a table knife manufacturer and general ironmonger in the local directory at 42 West Bar.  James Levick, an ivory cutter, was a partner.  But he filed for bankruptcy in 1837.  The premises of Addy’s, which apparently housed no more than an ironmongery shop, was offered ‘to let’ in 1839 and the business closed.  Meanwhile, John Addy became a traveller and then table knife manager.  After 1861, he worked as an iron merchant.  John Addy, ‘agent’, died in Hanover Street on 18 May 1876, aged 78.  He was buried in the General Cemetery.