BENNETT, William (Grimwade p.326)

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He was born William Hart Bennett around 1814 in St Luke’s parish, Finsbury.
He entered a mark in 1836 at Goldsmiths’ Hall as a case maker from 10 Great Warner Street, Clerkenwell.
His marriage at St Bride’s, Fleet Street in 1838 to Jane Hammon, both of 4 Howard’s Place, Bowling Green Lane, records his father as William Hart Bennett, a solicitor and Jane’s father as William (John) Hammon, a watch case maker (Grimwade 328, 352-3).
The 1841 UK Census records show him as a watch case maker at 48 Whiskin Street, Clerkenwell which was an address associated with the Hammon family. He was in the same employment at Warren Street, Islington in 1851.
His wife Jane died in 1855.
In 1857 he married Sarah Hammon, another daughter of William John Hammon, at St Mark, Islington.
He remained in the same trade at the same address from 1861-71, was still there in 1881 as a commission agent and jeweller but had returned to being an employee watch case maker at the address in 1891.
He died there in 1894.