In the Census (1841) George Cryer was a 25-year-old pen knife cutler living with his wife, Martha, in Lambert Street.  (In 1837, John Cryer was a pen knife maker, also working in Lambert Place, Lambert Street, and living in Bellefield Terrace.) In 1851, George employed eight journeymen.  In 1852, he was a spring knife maker and shopkeeper in Spring Street.  Between about 1854 and the end of the 1870s, he was working again in Lambert Place and living at various addresses (Montgomery Street, New Meadow Street, and Creswick Street).  By 1861, he employed six men and two boys.  He advertised in the 1868 directory.   George Cryer worked until his death at Creswick Street on 21 May 1880, aged 65.   His gravestone is in Burngreave cemetery.