Thomas Ellin & Company Ltd
The Ellin family had settled in Norton by the mid-eighteenth century. James Ellin (b. 1746) was a husbandman, who had four sons, but abandoned them after the death of his young wife in 1779. The boys, left in the care of their grandfather, were apprenticed as cutlers. Thomas Ellin (1771-1845) was the eldest and became the most successful. According to the records of the Company of Cutlers, he was apprenticed in 1785 and granted his Freedom in 1792 (though 1784 was later counted as the firm’s est....
