Thomas Renshaw & Son
The founder, Thomas Renshaw, was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, in about 1815. He had moved to Sheffield by the late 1830s. In 1841, he was enumerated in the Census as a cutler in Furnival Lane, living with his wife, Martha, and their sons, Thomas and William. In 1860, Thomas Renshaw & Son advertised from Milton Works in Suffolk Street as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, and sportsman’s, and rule knives, besides pencil and pen-machine knives. In 1862, the address was Excelsior Works, Suffolk S....
