Hope this is the right place; I'm a newbie. As a volunteer at a local charity I refurbish to a usable condition (as opposed to restoring to a collectable condition) donated saws for export to charities in Africa. However, in the course of that work I have found a number of vintage and antique saws which I hope to restore and sell to assist with running costs of the charity, as well as preserving something that might be of interest to enthusiasts. I have researched on genealogy sites (mainly Ancestry) the makers of those saws. I have recently bought a copy BSSM, and I can add to the information on two of the makers. John Buxton was baptised at St Peter and St Paul Cathedral, Sheffield, on 26 may 1780, son of John (cutler) and Mary. He married Ann Dodworth at Rotherham Minster on 5 Apr 1812. On 13 Jul 1814, when their son John was baptised at St Peter and St Paul, he was described as a cutler. In an 1834 directory of Sheffield, he is shown at Pond Street as a saw maker. He made a will 9 Feb 1848 (probated 27 Mar 1848) leaving bequests to (1) daughter Elizabeth Anne Bullas, the wife of Ephraim Bullas of Sheffield Saw Maker (2) Son John Buxton of Sheffield Saw Manufacturer (3) brother Jonathan Buxton of Sheffield. The bequest to son John included “all my household property situate in Suffolk Road in Sheffield aforesaid and also my trade and business of a saw manufacturer and all my interest therein together with all my stock in trade utensils implements and effects.” He was buried 22 Feb 1848. In an 1849 Directory of Sheffield John Jnr is shown at 35 Suffolk Road. Elijah Eyre was born in Sheffield about 1785, son of Elijah (also a sawmaker) and Hannah, and baptised at St Peter & St Paul Cathedral. He married Hannah Ashforth at the same church 2nd Jan 1810. By 1816 when their son Abijah was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, Elijah was in business as a saw maker in Lambeth, at Lower Marsh. Elijah died aged 42, and was buried 27 May 1827 at the Church of St John the Evangelist. Hannah died 1839, and was buried in Sheffield on 29 September. Abijah married Elizabeth Wainer in Melton Mowbray 18 Feb 1835, and it appears that they lived in Leicester: the 1846 directory for Leicester shows him as a saw maker and eating house keeper at Church Gate. In 1860 he was in business as a saw and tool manufacturer, at 326 Euston Road, London, but on 24 September 1870 he filed a petition for liquidation of the business, which was, in fact, liquidated 12 October 1870. Abijah emigrated to USA, arriving at New York 10 December 1870. He is listed in Goulding’s Business Directory of New York, 1872-73 under ‘Hardware and Cutlery Retail’ at 153 Lewis. If anyone would like details of my sources for the above, please ask.