BARROWS, Elizabeth (Grimwade p.389)

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Daughter of John Barrow , Bucklemaker
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The name Barrows given in Grimwade is incorrect. She was Elizabeth Barrow, a singular surname.

6th March 1789 - Mark of Elizabeth Barrow & Jane Williams entered as bucklemakers at 8, Bedford Street, Strand . These two ladies were respectively the widow and mother of John Barrow, silver bucklemaker whose will they had proved as executrixes on 28th February 1789.
Elizabeth, whose full name was Elizabeth Denis Barrow was a close relation, probably a cousin, of Sir Peter Denis a retired and very successful Vice Admiral who died in 1778. He was of Huguenot parentage and appears to have come from the lower deck as an ordinary seaman by merit and died a wealthy man with no heirs. Elizabeth seems to have brought John Barrow a considerable private income from her interest in Sir Peter’s estate.
John Barrow’s will empowered and directed Elizabeth and Jane to continue his silver business for their own benefit and the education of his infant son, Peter Denis Barrow (guess who he was named after !). On the son’s 21st birthday he was to join the business as a one third partner but interestingly the two ladies were still to maintain control. "the continuance of the said trade at the Sole disposal and direction of my said Wife and Mother and not in any manner subject to the direction of my said Son" - an unusually pro-feminine stance in a male dominated age .
Young may well have been the maiden name of Elizabeth as she is named at one place in the will as my said wife Elizabeth Denis Barrow and then as Elizabeth Denis Young. Or perhaps John was her second husband
Jane Williams was given as a widow at the time of probate, so presumeably had remarried after the death of her husband, and was again widowed.
The partnership mark of the two ladies has been seen up to 1792/1793.