ALLANSON, Joseph (Grimwade p.338)

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Indentures were signed in 1762 by Joseph, son of Thomas Allanson deceased, tinplate worker of St James, Westminster, to be the apprentice of James Richards (Grimwade p.307), Citizen & Goldsmith.
He married Sarah Johncock at St Marylebone in 1769; he was from St Andrew, Holborn parish.
There are christening records for two of their children at St James, Clerkenwell in 1770 and 1783 and for another at St Botolph, Aldersgate in 1773. None contain further detail.
An undated application indexed to 1817-8 by William Allanson, son of Joseph, for freedom by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company, shows his father gained his own freedom in 1777, the year he entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall as a watch case maker from 15 Nixon Square, Jewin Street.
The burial in 1820 of a Joseph Allanson aged 73 years, late of Acton, recorded at St Mary, Acton may be relevant in view of Goldsmiths Almshouses being situated in that area.