This firm was an ivory dealer and scale (handle) manufacturer, which can be traced to John Carlisle (1792-1865).  He was an ivory cutter, who married Harriet Driver (1792-1864).  They had two sons – Charles George (1821-1889) and William Henry (1833-?) – who followed in the trade.   John partnered his son, Charles George, but they became insolvent (Sheffield Independent, 14 April 1855).  By the end of the 1850s, Charles George and William Henry had formed Carlisle Brothers.  Their firm was initially based in Little Pond Street, but by the 1880s moved to Sheffield Ivory Works, Rockingham Street.  William Henry Carlisle withdrew from the partnership at about this time.  Charles G. Carlisle told the Census that the firm employed five men and ten women in 1871; and six men and eight girls in 1881.  He had started a piston manufacturing company, Lockwood & Carlisle, which continued after his death.  He died from bronchitis on 14 February 1889, aged 69.  He was buried in Fulwood, leaving £11,219.  He had married Elizabeth Lawton and their eight children provided fresh recruits.  The Carlisles’ sons – William Lawton (1846-1897), Charles Lawton (1848-1926), and John Lawton (1850-1904) – continued Carlisle Bros.  It became ‘Ltd’ in 1901 with £20,000 capital.  It survived into the interwar years, based in Silver Street.  The partners were Bernard Peel Carlisle (1874-1955), who was John Lawton Carlisle’s son, and Edgar Carlisle (1881-1962), who was the son of William Lawton Carlisle.  Edgar Carlisle, of Braeside, Grindleford, died on 30 May 1962.  He was aged 80 and left £11,647.  The firm had ceased trading in the 1950s.