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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

A biography for him has already been posted on the Forum in the “Some known Journeymen” Section.
Additional detail has now been obtained.
He was born on 25th March 1793 the son of William Eady jeweller of West Street, Smithfield and his wife Sarah. He was christened at St Botolph, Aldersgate on 18th April 1793.
He signed Indentures in 1807 to be an apprentice to his father.
The 1851 UK Census records show his address as “Campsbourne” Hornsey and that he was a goldsmith employing 46 men and 6 apprentices
The 1861 records for the same address show he had retired.
His burial is recorded on 10th April 1865 at St Mary, Hornsey. His last address was “Campsbourne”; he was 72 years old.
The National Probate Calendar for the Principal Registry dated 13th May 1865 records the value of his estate as under £80000.

Further information has now come to light.
His father William Eady the elder was the son of Charles Eady, a water gilder from Hatfield Street, Goswell Road and apprenticed in 1782 to Joseph Silver of the Goldsmiths Company, jeweller of Fetter Lane. He was free in 1789-90. The Eady jewellery business seems to have started with him.
George Anderton, son of watchmaker James Anderton (Grimwade p.341), was apprenticed to William Eady the elder in 1812 and turned over to William Eady the younger in 1815.
Apprentices of William Eady the younger were John Harrison Coulden (Grimwade p.370, 371) from 1821, John Robert Hodkinson (Grimwade p.371) from 1824, Samuel Jordan from 1826, Charles Allwright from 1827 and Thomas Rowland Aston from 1834.
His sons Henry John (born 1822) and Thomas William (born 1824) were both made free by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company in 1847.
His son Edward Angell (born 1837) was made free by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company in 1880.

His father may be the William Eady, Goldsmith and Jeweller of St Sepulchre, City of London whose was will was proved at PCC on 16 September 1815. Ref TNA/PROB 11/1572/439

1823 Kent's London Directory: Eady Wm. jeweller & goldsmith 25, Red Lion-st, Clerkenw.