John & William Burgin (Burgin Brothers)
John and William Burgin may have been brothers: coincidentally, both their spouses were named ‘Emma’ and they sometimes lived in the same roads (though at different times). John was born in about 1819; William in about 1821. Their background is unclear, though a William Burgin had been active in the pen knife trade in the Park between the 1820s and 1850s. John Burgin was enumerated in the 1851 Census in Pinfold Street: his works address, where he made spring knives, was in a courtyar....
