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Rollason is first recorded in 1791 when a trade directory records her business of making steel toys. This was an increasingly less profitable business as steel toymakers would sell to buyers and that would then re-sell them absorbing the profit and not sharing it equitably with the manufacturers.<ref name="orb" /> In the 1820s she was working at 108 Steel House Lane in Birmingham.<ref name=markt>{{Cite journal |date=March 2021 |title=Mark Time |url=https://www.transferwarecollectorsclub.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Recorder%20News/recordernews29.pdf |journal=Recorder News |issue=29 |pages=2 |via=Reynardine Publishing}}</ref>
Rollason appears to have moved her business into pottery, where she was the dealer.<ref name="orb">{{Citation |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70354 |work=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |pages=ref:odnb/70354 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70354 |access-date=2023-01-14 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}</ref> She sold her goods to the middle-classes from her business but she also operated as a wholesaler. She dealt in brass and cut-glass which was created at a manufactory she owned. The manuactory was nearby in Steelhouse Lane and in 1825 she brought her son into the business styling the
Rollason died at her home
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