TOLLIT, John (Grimwade p.373)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

Indentures were signed in 1814 by John, son of John Tollit, a cow dealer from Uxbridge, to be the apprentice of John Freethy of the Joiners Company.
He married Elizabeth Freethy at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1820.
The christening of their son John Price at St Andrew, Holborn in 1824 records his father as a goldsmith of 3 Lilypot Lane. This had been the address of Edmund Hopkins (Grimwade p.359) in 1811.
He entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1826 as a gold worker from 13 Bartlett’s Passage.
The christenings records at St Andrew’s for their sons George in 1826, Thomas in 1826 and Alfred Freethy in 1833 show their address as before and their father as a jeweller or goldsmith.
His wife aged 30 years and son Alfred both died in 1833. Their last address was as previously noted.
The entry in the 1841 UK Census for a John Tollit, job master of 157 Oxford Street, and the burial at St Martin in the Fields in 1850 of a person of the same name aged 51 years , late of Drury Lane, may be relevant.