WIlkins & Son
This London-based business was launched by James Rawlins Wilkins (c.1802-1873), who had been born at St Pancras, London. In 1830, he married Elizabeth Sarah nee Reid. He traded alongside other members of his family (William, Henry and Joseph) as a coach smith and harness maker at Soho Square. This enterprise was bankrupt in 1840. James resumed work as a coach maker. By 1861, when he was living in Marylebone Road, he was a patent solid ink manufacturer, employing two men and a girl. A decade later he was enumerated in&n....
