TAYLOR, William (Grimwade p.679)
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:42 pm
May have had marks in the lost register. Goldsmiths Hall kalamazoo record indicates that William Taylor, son of William Taylor was apprenticed to John Eaton in 1765 and turned over same day to his father, a Leatherseller. This means that William Taylor I was a Leatherseller but his son, William Taylor II was free of the Goldsmiths
A Wm Taylor appears first in the Land Tax Assessment of 1751/52, in Huggin Alley ( identified as No 7 ) opposite to Samuel Eaton’s premises ( identified as No 4 ). This is probably William I.
His trade card states , "Silver Buckle Maker in Huggin Alley , Gutter Lane , Cheapside"
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2nd October 1764 - Smallworkers mark at Huggin Alley, Gutter Lane
Late July 1766 - Death of William Taylor - Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, Friday, August 1, 1766 reports :- "Tuesday [29th] died of a mortification of his bowels Mr Taylor, Silver Buckle-maker , in Huggins Alley , in Wood -street"
Huggin Alley, later Lane, was a short narrow road runing from Gutter Lane in the west to Wood Street in the east
1st (?) August 1766
A William Taylor was recorded buried in the Middle Aisle of St Michael, Wood Street. St Michael was on the corner of Wood Street and Huggin Alley/Lane.
2nd December 1766 - Will of William Taylor, Silver Smith of Saint Michael Wood Street , City of London proved at PCC by Samuel Eaton as sole executor. The will, dated 22th July 1766, appears somewhat amateur in both drafting and execution and was probably written by Taylor on his deathbed. The sole witness, George Smith was almost certainly George Smith II, later of 4, Huggin Lane.
Will leaves an "annuity of One hundred and Fifty pounds of three per cent Consols to my four children Viz William Taylor, John Taylor, Samuel Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor for their own use and benefit to be divided equally to them when they come of Age " and the interest to be applied to their "bringing up"
The residue " unto their Mother my well beloved Wife " but does not name her.
26th February 1767
Smallworker mark of Elizabeth Taylor entered at Hugin(sic) Alley.
She is shown in the Land Tax assessments from 1767/68 as Widow Taylor
1771/1772
Elizabeth Taylor of Hogan Alley had silver plate broken as substandard
Elizabeth Taylor given in PR1773 as bucklemaker, Hogan [sic] Alley
10th June 1774
Grimwade gives the mark of William Taylor II entered as bucklemaker at 9, Huggin Lane. He is probably the son mentioned in the will of William Taylor I , However he appears for at least three years in the Poor Rates book at No 9, Huggin Lane at the same time as Widow Taylor was still shown at No 7. Perhaps the business moved to No 9.
21th February 1779
Burial Register of St Michael Wood Street records an Elizabeth Taylor as being buried in the Middle Aisle - probably the widow
A Wm Taylor appears first in the Land Tax Assessment of 1751/52, in Huggin Alley ( identified as No 7 ) opposite to Samuel Eaton’s premises ( identified as No 4 ). This is probably William I.
His trade card states , "Silver Buckle Maker in Huggin Alley , Gutter Lane , Cheapside"
See http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/s ... _id=462940" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2nd October 1764 - Smallworkers mark at Huggin Alley, Gutter Lane
Late July 1766 - Death of William Taylor - Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, Friday, August 1, 1766 reports :- "Tuesday [29th] died of a mortification of his bowels Mr Taylor, Silver Buckle-maker , in Huggins Alley , in Wood -street"
Huggin Alley, later Lane, was a short narrow road runing from Gutter Lane in the west to Wood Street in the east
1st (?) August 1766
A William Taylor was recorded buried in the Middle Aisle of St Michael, Wood Street. St Michael was on the corner of Wood Street and Huggin Alley/Lane.
2nd December 1766 - Will of William Taylor, Silver Smith of Saint Michael Wood Street , City of London proved at PCC by Samuel Eaton as sole executor. The will, dated 22th July 1766, appears somewhat amateur in both drafting and execution and was probably written by Taylor on his deathbed. The sole witness, George Smith was almost certainly George Smith II, later of 4, Huggin Lane.
Will leaves an "annuity of One hundred and Fifty pounds of three per cent Consols to my four children Viz William Taylor, John Taylor, Samuel Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor for their own use and benefit to be divided equally to them when they come of Age " and the interest to be applied to their "bringing up"
The residue " unto their Mother my well beloved Wife " but does not name her.
26th February 1767
Smallworker mark of Elizabeth Taylor entered at Hugin(sic) Alley.
She is shown in the Land Tax assessments from 1767/68 as Widow Taylor
1771/1772
Elizabeth Taylor of Hogan Alley had silver plate broken as substandard
Elizabeth Taylor given in PR1773 as bucklemaker, Hogan [sic] Alley
10th June 1774
Grimwade gives the mark of William Taylor II entered as bucklemaker at 9, Huggin Lane. He is probably the son mentioned in the will of William Taylor I , However he appears for at least three years in the Poor Rates book at No 9, Huggin Lane at the same time as Widow Taylor was still shown at No 7. Perhaps the business moved to No 9.
21th February 1779
Burial Register of St Michael Wood Street records an Elizabeth Taylor as being buried in the Middle Aisle - probably the widow