Thomas McGivern & Son
By 1839, Thomas McGivern (born in Ireland, c.1807) was trading as a cutlery dealer in Snig Hill. He remained at that address for the next twenty-five years. He advertised in 1856 as the ‘Cheapest House in Sheffield’. As a ‘general merchant’, he sold butchers’, table, pen, and pocket knives and ‘always [had] a large stock on hand for American and Continental markets’. In 1860, John McClory was listed as a partner. Thomas’s son (Wil....
