Thomas Burton
Thomas Burton, who was born in Darton, near Barnsley, in about 1794, was the son of John and Amelia Burton. By the late 1820s, he was a cutlery manufacturer in Backfields. In the 1830s, he worked first in Duke Street and then in Hermitage Street, where he was listed in 1837 as a pen and pocket slide knife and phleme manufacturer. He died on 3 January 1841, aged 47, from apoplexy and was buried in the General Cemetery. Burton’s Hermitage Street house, warehouse, shop, and country connection....
