Thomas Wigfall
Born in Sheffield on 5 January 1805, Thomas Wigfall was the son of John (a white smith) and Mary. By the 1830s, Thomas was a bone haft and scale cutter in Allen Street and then Meadow Street. A partnership in James King & Co, table and spear point knife manufacturers, 115 Scotland Street, was launched in 1845, but almost immediately dissolved. In 1849, Wigfall alone advertised from that address. In the Census (1851), he was a table knife manufacturer in Scotland Street, living with his wife,....
