George Gill
George Gill was born in Thorne, Yorkshire, in about 1826. In 1848, he established an enterprise for manufacturing scissors in Lambert Place, Lambert Street (where Gill lived at No. 39). In 1851, the workforce was eighteen hands (ten in 1861). Gill died at his residence in St Philip’s Road on 23 November 1870 (aged 44) and was buried in Burngreave Cemetery. He left under £2.000. In 1871, George Gill was still listed as a maker of fine scissors and tailors’ shears in ....
