MAYFIELD, Benjamin (Grimwade p.356)
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:27 am
Goldworkers List (Section VII).
Born 22 February 1790.
Family Search.org website indicates his birth was registered at Dr Williams’ Library which was in Red Cross Street at that time.
He was the son of Thomas Mayfield and Mary Udall who was the daughter of John Udall of Worksworth Derbyshire. The birth took
place in Staining Lane in the Parish of Saint John Zachary London.
Freedom of the City of London documents show he was the son of Thomas Mayfield goldsmith (Grimwade p.382).
Family Search.org website shows a Benjamin Mayfield married Sarah Alder at St Anne, Soho on 24th December 1810.
There is a christening record dated 2nd October 1811at St Pancras Old Church for Benjamin Gurden Mayfield son of Benjamin and Sarah. The child died in 1814 as shown in the burials record for St John Zachary dated 2nd December 1814. At that time the parents’ address was given as Staining Lane which is where Thomas Mayfield the goldsmith lived. The name Gurden is known in the London jewellery trade. See Benjamin Gurden (Grimwade p.356), the subject of a topic in this section of the Forum. It suggests some connection with that family and Benjamin Mayfield because the christening records of two further children Benjamin and Thomas John both on 7th January 1816 at St Pancras Old Church show their father as Benjamin Gurden Mayfield goldsmith of Cold Bath Fields, Clerkenwell.
Benjamin Mayfield entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall on 2nd January 1824 as a goldworker from Staining Lane. His father had died in December 1823. Another entry in the Goldsmith Hall records in 1828 show him as a goldworker from 63 St John Street, Clerkenwell.
There is a burial record for a Sarah Mayfield at St James, Clerkenwell dated 7th March 1834 with a last address as Crawford’s Passage but shows no age at death.
No record has been traced for the death of Benjamin Mayfield senior.
The UK Census for 1841 records Benjamin junior and Thomas John living in separate houses at Pope Street, Ladywood, Birmingham where they were both shown as engravers and enamellers.
Born 22 February 1790.
Family Search.org website indicates his birth was registered at Dr Williams’ Library which was in Red Cross Street at that time.
He was the son of Thomas Mayfield and Mary Udall who was the daughter of John Udall of Worksworth Derbyshire. The birth took
place in Staining Lane in the Parish of Saint John Zachary London.
Freedom of the City of London documents show he was the son of Thomas Mayfield goldsmith (Grimwade p.382).
Family Search.org website shows a Benjamin Mayfield married Sarah Alder at St Anne, Soho on 24th December 1810.
There is a christening record dated 2nd October 1811at St Pancras Old Church for Benjamin Gurden Mayfield son of Benjamin and Sarah. The child died in 1814 as shown in the burials record for St John Zachary dated 2nd December 1814. At that time the parents’ address was given as Staining Lane which is where Thomas Mayfield the goldsmith lived. The name Gurden is known in the London jewellery trade. See Benjamin Gurden (Grimwade p.356), the subject of a topic in this section of the Forum. It suggests some connection with that family and Benjamin Mayfield because the christening records of two further children Benjamin and Thomas John both on 7th January 1816 at St Pancras Old Church show their father as Benjamin Gurden Mayfield goldsmith of Cold Bath Fields, Clerkenwell.
Benjamin Mayfield entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall on 2nd January 1824 as a goldworker from Staining Lane. His father had died in December 1823. Another entry in the Goldsmith Hall records in 1828 show him as a goldworker from 63 St John Street, Clerkenwell.
There is a burial record for a Sarah Mayfield at St James, Clerkenwell dated 7th March 1834 with a last address as Crawford’s Passage but shows no age at death.
No record has been traced for the death of Benjamin Mayfield senior.
The UK Census for 1841 records Benjamin junior and Thomas John living in separate houses at Pope Street, Ladywood, Birmingham where they were both shown as engravers and enamellers.