Warburton
Several members of the Warburton family were active in the cutlery trades in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (and the name also occurs before then in the listings of Freemen). Their histories are difficult to unravel, but the following disparate information has been collected:Samuel Warburton: listed as a manufacturer of pocket knives in Hollis Croft between 1774 and 1797 (trade mark ‘WARBURTON’).Samuel Warburton, listed in Bridgehouses between 1774 and 1797, making pen knives and razors ....
