This firm was a scissors manufacturer, which was based at Parkgate (probably Highfield), and was listed in directories in 1816 and 1818.  The company was dissolved in 1819, when the partners were revealed as James Sen. (who signed the dissolution document with his mark), James Barlow Jun., Thomas Barlow, and John and Bartholomew Hounsfield.  The subsequent history of the Barlow scissor makers is difficult to unravel.  James Barlow Jun. may have been the subsequent owner of James Barlow & Sons.  In the 1820s, Thomas Barlow (possibly James Sen.’s son) was active as a scissors maker at Howard Street.   He was bankrupt in 1828.  He may have been the Thomas Barlow, scissors maker, who died on 20 October 1837, aged 44, after ‘a long and painful illness’ (Sheffield Iris, 31 October 1837).