PUGH, Richard (Grimwade p.399)

[buckler]

Inland Revenue Board of Stamps 25 or 26/173 of 1770 gives a Richard Pugh as apprenticed to George Cowles ,Citizen and Goldsmith of London . Cowles was a significant goldsmith associated with the Courtaulds.

3rd Dec 1790 - The newspaper Argus reports on Court of Common Pleas "Varden and Another versus Bayley Brewer and Elder "
The plaintiffs appear to include one of the Vardon partnership - there is a mention of William Congrave late apprentice to Mess. Vardens. A Mr Pugh, who stated that he was formerly a buckle maker, was involved with the selling buckles to the defendants, although whether as a partner of the Vardons is not clear. This date agrees well with the comment of 5th November 1790 in the Smallworkers Register that the partnership of Richard Pugh and John Wheeldon was "Out of the Trade" .

Wheeldon however was soon back, entering a partnership mark with John Wickes as bucklemakers on 17th November 1790.

There may have been a marrage connection between the Pugh and Wheeldon families.
- A John Wheeldon and a Mary Pugh were married at Saint Marylebone, London on 2nd September 1793.
This may relate to the bucklemaker John Wheeldon or perhaps a son. But it seems too much of a co-incidence not to relate. It is just possible that Mary was the widow of Richard Pugh as IGI records a marriage between a Richard Pugh and a Mary Heath on 26th February 1786 at Saint Botolph Bishopsgate.