MACGREGOR, John (Grimwade p.367)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He was born in Scotland around 1791.
He entered three maker’s marks at Goldsmiths Hall in 1817-18 as a goldworker at 14 Charterhouse Street.
Christening records for five children of John and Ann Macgregor at St James, Clerkenwell 1818-28 show their father as a jeweller from Charterhouse Street.
The 1841 UK Census for Charterhouse Square shows him as a wholesale jeweller aged 50 years.
In 1851 he was recorded as a jeweller at 30 Charterhouse Square aged 58 years.
In 1861 he is recorded as widowed, a manufacturing jeweller and living at The Grove, Heston aged 70 years.
His death record has not been traced.

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Fires.–A great number of fires, unusual at this period of the year, have of late taken place in the Metropolis and its vicinity, attended by a considerable destruction of property. On the night of Monday the 3d of August a fire broke out in Charter-house-square, which originated in the house of the Rev. C. W. Goode, and communicated to No. 30, occupied by Mrs. Currie; and 29, Mr. Graville, clock and watch manufacturer. Nos. 31 and 30 were utterly destroyed with all the furniture; No. 29 escaped total destruction, but little more. In Charter-house-street, the houses of Mr. Macgregor, jeweller, and Mr. Solomons, furrier, were destroyed, and others much injured. On the following night, another fire was discovered in a hay-loft belonging to a Mr. Reid, coach painter, Great Rupert-street, Haymarket. In a very short time the whole premises became involved in flames, which quickly communicated to the houses in Rupert-street and Archer-street. The Plough public-house, in Rupert-street, was entirely gutted, and Nos. 38, 37, and 41, in the same street, much damaged, besides several houses in Archer-street. In the course of Wednesday the remains of one man, five horses, and seven cows and calves were dug out of the ruins. At the very time the fire was raging in Rupert-street another broke out at Mr. Henry Vellum's, cabinet-maker, Cripplegate-buildings, and another at the residence of Mr. W. Gordon, water-proof hat manufacturer in the Willow-walk, Lambeth. On the same afternoon, a fire occurred at Mr. John Davis's, undertaker, Wade's-place, Hackney-road. The next night a public-house at Barnes was utterly destroyed by fire. Early on the morning of the 23d of August a most destructive fire broke out at Barnet, in the large tallow manufactory of Mr. Smith, by which many of the adjoining buildings, being the principal in the village, were utterly destroyed.

Source: The Gentleman's Magazine - 1835