Several cutlers and edge tool makers had the name Joseph Cam.  This individual was a razor manufacturer, who was apparently first listed in 1833 in Angel Row at the head of South Street.  By 1837, when his three-year-old son died, Joseph Cam was working in Charles Street (Sheffield Independent, 26 February 1837).  By 1841, he was insolvent and in York Castle jail.  Its register recorded his age as 45 (apparently a rounded figure) and his occupation as ‘cutler’.  On 17 May 1844, a notice in The London Gazette stated: ‘Joseph Cam, the elder, late of Cheney-row, Razor Manufacturer, previously of  Eyre-street, Razor Maker, both of Sheffield, a Prisoner for Debt in York Castle, out of business, formerly of New Church-street, Razor Manufacturer, and then of the same place, Razor Manufacturer and Shopkeeper, his wife a Dress Maker’.  Joseph Cam, razor manufacturer, Cheney Row, died on 31 October 1846.  He was buried in St Peter’s churchyard.  Confusingly, his press obituary stated his age as 72; but the transcribed burial register has his age as 52.