BOHEME, Maurice (Grimwade p.444)

[buckler]

A letter from J.S.Forbes, (author of "Hallmark - A history of the London Assay Office) gives Maurice Boheme as bucklemaker. He took a James Dickens apprentice in 1701 and recommended him for a position as drawer in the Assay Office in 1717. Dickens ,also a bucklemaker after his freedom in 1710, was however dismissed in 1721 for bringing plate privately into the Office and getting it marked without first being tried. (Typical of a bucklemaker !)

11 May 1703
Tool Daniel Skinner as apprentice . Skinner was later the master of John Alcock who in turn was the master of Henry Bickerton, another bucklemaker

Inland Revenue Board of Stamps transcript 4/14 of 1715 records the apprenticeship of William Judd ,son of Samuel Judd, late of Chatham ,Goldsmith to Maurice Boheme Citizen and Goldsmith for a premium of £20 .

He appears to have retired around 1728 to Kensington as his will (TNA/ PROB 11 /678/ 2580) was signed on 7 January 1728 (NS) as
"Maurice Boheme, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, now of Kensington in the County of Middlesex"
He wished "to be buryed[sic] in the Church Yard of the parish of Ealing" and left everything to his wife Sarah Boheme and appointed her sole executrix. There appear to be no children as there is no reversionary interest. She proved the will as widow on 6 August 1736 so we assume he had a long, for those days, and hopefully happy retirement .

[MCB]

Heal recorded him at Lad Lane, Wood Street in 1709. Land Tax assessments show he was actually there from 1708 until 1716.
In addition to those already mentioned he also took as apprentices John Clarke of West Bromwich in 1703 and William Pierce of Shrewsbury in 1712.
The 1727 London Poll Book listed him already in Kennington and still in the Goldmiths Company.
As suggested previously no evidence has been found that he was blessed with children although there is an intriguing entry of a christening at St Gregory by St Paul's in 1716 of Elizabeth the daughter of Goldsmith Boheme and Elizabeth. Maurice appears to have been the only Boheme registered in London as a goldsmith at that time.

Mike

[buckler]

Thanks Mike .The Goldsmith Boheme and Elizabeth baptism of a daughter is intriguing . It tends to indicate that Sarah may have been his second wife. The child Elizabeth may well have died in infancy. Normally at this time Goldsmith very much implies membership of the Goldsmiths' Company rather than occupation, so absence from the Goldsmith records of any others does suggest this is our man.
Or perhaps bigamy may have been another bucklemaker thing - I've noted them commit most crimes now.
Including serial murder if my suspicions of George Smith of Huggins Lane are correct

[silverly]

1722 Maurice Boheme listed in the London Poll book under the category of Goldsmiths without a specific address. The trades that fall under goldsmith are not broken down at all.