Goldworkers List (Section VII).
He was christened at St John Zachary in 1750, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth.
As the son of Thomas Hopkins of the Clockmakers Company he was apprenticed in 1764 to Edmund Price of the Goldsmiths Company and made free in 1772.
He married Elizabeth Price of St Vedast parish at St Anne and St Agnes, Aldersgate in 1775. Both fathers Thomas Hopkins and Edmund Price signed as witnesses.
His son Edmund was christened at St Vedast, Foster Lane in 1776. Another of their children was christened at St Alban, Wood Street in 1778, five christened at St John Zachary between 1781 and 1793 and two at St Anne and St Agnes in 1782 and 1783. None of the records show an address.
He entered maker’s marks at Goldsmiths Hall in 1785 and 1791as a gold worker from 17 Maiden Lane, Wood Street.
His son Edmund Hopkins (Grimwade p.359, 384) in 1790 and Henry Hannaford in 1797 signed as apprentices at Maiden Lane where he was a ring maker.
Adam Shepherd in 1803 and Thomas Edgecombe in 1806 signed as his apprentices at the same address where he was a mourning ring maker.
He and his son Edmund entered a maker’s mark in partnership in 1806 as gold workers from 17 Maiden Lane (incorrectly shown as Street in the record).
His burial in 1814 aged 64 years, late of Maiden Lane, was recorded at St John Zachary.
HOPKINS, William (Grimwade p.384)
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