MACAIRE, Gideon senior (Grimwade p.296, 313, 361)

[MCB]

A family tree contained within the Ancestry.co.uk website suggests he was born Gedeon Macaire in Geneva, Switzerland in 1745. Other information from that family tree for which no actual records have been found is marked thus*.
Volume I, page 24 of The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths Jewellers & Allied Traders 1838-1914 by John Culme has a note that Gedeon came to England from Geneva in 1775.
He entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1779 in partnership with Mary Aveline as case makers from 5 Denmark Street, Soho.
He married Ann Lemaitre at St Ann, Soho in 1783.
*Ann was said to have been born in Geneva in 1762.
He entered a maker’s mark in 1783 as a gold worker from 17 Crown Street, Soho, notified a change of address to 12 Denmark Street in 1784 and entered another mark from there in 1789.
*Gideon Paul and Jane Mary, children of Gedeon and Ann, are said to have been born in St Giles in the Fields parish in 1784 and 1787 respectively.
He was assessed to Land Tax on property in Denmark Street from 1787-1793 and recorded there in a Trade Directory in 1790. His neighbour was Gabriel Wirgman (Grimwade p.708) who had registered marks from 11 Denmark Street.
*He was said to have been buried at St Giles in the Fields in 1793.
In 1793 Ann Macaire and Peter Desvignes (Grimwade p.314) entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in partnership from 13 Denmark Street (Grimade p.288).
For historic detail of his son Gideon Paul see Gideon Macaire junior (Grimwade p.315, 346) in a separate post.