In 1841, Richard Henry Rodgers (aged 58) and his son of the same name (aged 20) were spring knife cutlers in Porter Brook Yard.  The father had been born in Greasborough.  He was enumerated in the 1851 Census in Court No. 5, Bowden Street, employing one boy.  He later worked in Eldon Street (Richard Rodgers, 1852), then Bath Street (Richard Henry Rodgers, 1856), and later Exchange Works, Edgerton Street (Richard Rodgers & Son, 1859).  In 1861, the company advertised as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, desk, and eraser, lock, Bowie and pencil knives, razors and table cutlery, Exchange Works.  In 1861, the owner was aged 78 and lived and worked in Edgerton Street with his son, Richard.  In 1864, they ceased business (Sheffield Independent, 10 September 1864).  Richard and his son moved to Bamford, where they were enumerated in the Census (1871).  Richard was now 88 and had retired (apparently he died in Hayfield, Derbyshire, in 1872); his son was still a pen knife cutler.  Although Richard Rodgers Jun. continued as a cutler and grinder, he moved to Glossop and eventually to Oldham.