The Brassingtons (or Brasingtons) formed a clan of cutlers around Beet Street, Brookhill.   William Brassington and George Brassington were spring-knife cutlers in the late 1840s: William in Tobaccobox Walk and George in Queen Street, Philadelphia.   By 1852, William & George Brassington, spring-knife manufacturers, were in Masdin [Marsden] Lane.  They were the sons of Dublin-born Samuel Brassington, a pen knife cutler, and his wife, Mary, who lived in Beet Street.   Samuel died on 18 February 1863 (aged 73) and was buried, as would be many of the family, in the General Cemetery.  In 1856, W. & G. Brasington advertised at Edward Street Works.  In 1871, the address was Gascoigne’s Wheel, Edward Street and Scotland Street.  By 1876, it was in Hollis Croft.  William Brassington, ‘cutler’ of 260 Beet Street, died on 4 June 1880, aged 67.  George continued trading at Hollis Croft until about 1890.  George Brassington, spring-knife cutler, Richard Road, died (aged 78) on 17 March 1899.