This scissors manufacturer was listed in 1787 at Gibraltar, using the trade mark ‘SCU XY X & Y’.  In 1790, this partnership was disbanded by Mary Bell, Joseph Bell, and John Shepherd.  Little information is available on the Bells, but a cluster of burials at the parish church may explain the demise of the partnership: Joseph Bell was buried on 15 March 1791; Mary (widow) on 27 June 1799; and John (Joseph’s son) on 19 December 1803.  John Shepherd continued alone at Gibraltar Street.  He was listed in 1797, using the trade mark ‘SCU’.  In 1811, J. Shepherd, steel scissors manufacturer, was listed at Gibraltar.  John Shepherd then disappeared from directories, though in 1818 William Shepherd was making scissors at Gibraltar Street.  Perhaps John had died and William was his successor (and son?).   William Shepherd, scissors manufacturer, was active at Furnace Hill by 1822.  But then the directory trail goes cold.  J. Shepherd was a fine scissors, table knife, and razor manufacturer at Westbar.  In 1828, John Shepherd was listed as a dealer in Sheffield and Birmingham goods at Snig Hill.  It is unclear, though, whether this John Shepherd – who died at Snig Hill on 13 January 1839, aged 56, and buried at St Philip’s – was related to the Shepherd scissors family.