Thomas Scargill
This razor maker was first listed in 1821 in Shalesmoor. In the early 1820s, he shipped ‘Old English’ razors to the American South (information from Zak Jarvis). He apparently died in 1824, aged 42, and was buried at St Paul’s. His wife, Sarah (d. 1844), was listed in 1825 as a razor manufacturer in Shalesmoor. Thomas’s only son by an earlier marriage – Thomas (1811-1829) – was apprenticed to Edward Barber, but died from a ruptured blood vessel (‘the Visitatio....
