Edward Kay was apparently baptised in Sheffield on 14 July 1801, the son of John (a cutler) and Ann.  In 1828, he married Mary Elizabeth, the only daughter of William Birt, a publican at Grimesthorpe.  Edward Kay was listed in 1833 as an ironmonger and cutler at West Street.  In the late 1830s, Edward became an American hardware agent, resident in Sheffield at Hanover Street.  He made trips to New York in 1839 and 1848.  He seems to have lived in America in the late 1840s and early 1850s, as his name disappeared from Sheffield directories.  His second daughter, Fanny Leonora, died on 15 May 1855 (aged 14) from consumption in Brooklyn.  Edward had returned to Sheffield by 1861, when he worked as a commercial agent/traveller in hardware.  He lived at Spring Hill, Crookes, where he was enumerated in the Census (1871) as a boarder, living with ‘annuitant’ Mary Case.  Apparently, Edward Kay died in Sheffield in 1878, aged 76, though the details have not been traced.   His ‘relict’, Mary Elizabeth, died on 15 September 1881 (aged 74), at the home of her son, Rev. E. B. Kay, the rector of Marfleet.