She came to Birmingham with her family as a child and she lived in the city for the rest of her life.
[1] Florry's family had a business in Birmingham until 1769 when they decided to stop trading and move out of the city.
As it was against social etiquette for a woman to deal with the mostly male players in the iron trade herself, she employed men who did this as middlemen, and from 1773 was in partnership with one of them a traveller named William Walker.
Wiskin has noted that there was some hesitation in dealing with women, but not where they were established in business.
[4] The plan was that she and her mother would move in with the widow of Sir Charles Holte, 6th Baronet.