This cutler was in partnership with William Hides as a razor and scissors manufacturer.  Their enterprise, dissolved in 1823, was too transient to appear in a directory.  The partners are difficult to identify, too.  Joseph Crossland may have been the son of John (a joiner) and his wife, Ellen.  If so, Joseph was born on 20 November 1801.  In 1825, Joseph was listed in a directory as a manufacturer of table knives, razors, and a general dealer in cutlery at 81 Allen Street.  In that year, he offered for sale 23 well-built dwelling houses in Allen Street that had been owned by his late father, who had been a builder (Sheffield Independent, 25 June 1825).  In the following year, he married Alicia Symons, of Redruth, Cornwall.   He was now in partnership with William Spencer as a general merchant and factor at Allen Street (with a retail outlet at Fenchurch Street, London).  They were insolvent by 1827.  Joseph apparently continued to trade to pay off his debts.   Joseph’s wife Alicia died in 1836, aged 34, and was buried at Portobello.  In 1837, he may have been the individual of that name, who was sentenced to a month in prison at York assizes for ‘larceny’ (which usually denoted some kind of false accounting).  Certainly, Joseph was bankrupt again in 1843.  His later life has been difficult to trace, not least because other Joseph Crosslands were active in Sheffield at that time.