STARKEY, Samuel (Grimwade p.379)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He was born around 1803.
There are Indentures in 1818 as the son of Samuel Starkey, mariner of Spitalfields, to be the apprentice of Thomas Mayfield, jeweller of Staining Lane (Grimwade p.382).
He married Martha Holland (born 1803) at Christ Church, Spitalfields in 1827; both were of that parish.
Requests for freedom of the City of London in 1852-3 by two of his sons Samuel and Alfred show he was granted his own freedom as a Goldsmith in 1829.
In the same year he entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall as a goldworker at Hoxton and also notified a change of address to 9 Queen’s Square, Aldersgate Street.
Their first child was christened at Christ Church in 1829, the record showing he was a jeweller from Pelham Street.
Records of christenings of a further four children 1832-37 at St Bartholomew the Great show he was still a jeweller at 9 Queen’s Square.
In 1837 he notified Goldsmiths Hall of a change of address to 18 King Street and a further christening record at St Bartholomew the Great in 1838 confirms the change.
The 1841 UK Census records him still a jeweller at King Street where he continued to be in 1843 as shown by Indentures for John Spink, son of Daniel Edgar Spink jeweller of 2 Gracechurch Street (Grimwade p.358), to be his apprentice.
Martha Starkey died in 1844.
The 1851 UK Census records show his address as Holland House, Clapton Road, Hackney as a proprietor of houses.
Volume I page 130 of The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths Jewellers & Allied Traders by John Culme records that, along with his son Alfred, from 1855 until his retirement in 1858 he was a partner in Duplack & Co, jewellers of 1 New Basinghall Street.
No record of his death has so far been traced.

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Samuel Starkey remarried 27 Mar 1856 at St John's Hackney to Anne Elizabeth Cory nee Brame, widow of Edward Augustus Cory MD. The 1861 census records Ann as being married, living at Fork Hill House, Enfield with her son in law Joseph V Geary, his wife Amelia G Geary and Ann's other children Alice, Edward A and William Henry Cory. Her husband Samuel Starkey is not recorded on this return and I have been unable to locate him.
When Samuel's son Alfred Starkey married Mary Ann Davidson at St Lukesin 1874 his father is recorded as being deceased.

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I'm afraid that I won't be much help with this, but Ann Starkey is listed as the head of household and a fundholder in the 1861 UK Census, so it appears Samuel had passed on sometime between 1858 and 1861.