In 1832, Woolhouse authored  Sheffield 150 Years Ago (published 1926, with an introduction by Henry Richardson and annotations by R. E. Leader; and in Trans Hunter Arch Soc, vol. 2, 1920-4).  Woolhouse was apparently baptised in 1778, the son of Joseph (a cutler) and his wife, Elizabeth.  Apprenticed to his father and granted his Freedom in 1804, by the early 1820s he was a table knife maker at Newhall Street.  In the 1830s and 1840s, he was timekeeper at Sheaf Works of Wm. Greaves.   However, in the Census (1851), he described his occupation as ‘cutler’.   The General Cemetery register recorded the death of Joseph Woolhouse (presumably this man) on 29 April 1852, aged 74.  He was a clerk, living in Garden Street.