FOSTER, Isaac (Grimwade p.365)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:49 am
Goldworkers List (Section VII).
No record of his birth or apprenticeship has been found.
He entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1774 as a gold worker from 2 Hatton Street and notified a change of address to 1 Bartlett Buildings, Holborn in 1775 from where he entered another mark in the same trade in 1778.
As a bachelor in 1777 he married the spinster Elizabeth Fry at St Andrew, Holborn. She was from St Ann, Aldersgate parish. An Elizabeth Fry (Grimwade p.358) had entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall from 6 Bull and Mouth Street in 1775 as a gold worker.
Duty was paid by Isaac Foster, jeweller of St Andrews, Holborn, for the apprentice indentures of Joshua Cooper in 1782 and Edward Green in 1783.
There was an attestation in March 1786 by Henry Parker, Clerk of Chambers, that the Order of the Court of Aldermen for the (granting?) of Isaac Foster the freedom of the City in the Goldsmiths Company had been burnt in February in the Chamberlain’s Office. The document does not mention how or why the original Order had been destroyed.
The England & Wales Non-Conformist index records the birth in Bartlett’s Buildings Passage in 1796 of David George, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Foster and his baptisms at Doctor William’s Library, London and also at Lady Huntingdon’s Chapel, Blackfriars Road, Southwark. David George applied for his freedom by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company. This undated application indexed to 1823-4 records that his father Isaac, despite the fire which burnt the 1786 document, had been made free in that year.
Isaac was assessed to Land Tax on the property in Bartlett’s Buildings Passage from at least 1782 until 1798, the latter assessment referring to Isaac Foster & Co.
Trade Directories from 1785-1791 show him as a jeweller and goldsmith at the same address.
Elizabeth Foster (Grimwade p.358) entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1801 as a gold worker from 1 Bartlett Passage. This is certainly the same address as that used by Isaac as subsequent Land Tax assessments on Elizabeth show the full address as Bartlett’s Buildings Passage.
Isaac’s burial probably occurred between 1798 and 1801 and may have been Non-Conformist, the website records for which are relatively sparse.
No record of his birth or apprenticeship has been found.
He entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1774 as a gold worker from 2 Hatton Street and notified a change of address to 1 Bartlett Buildings, Holborn in 1775 from where he entered another mark in the same trade in 1778.
As a bachelor in 1777 he married the spinster Elizabeth Fry at St Andrew, Holborn. She was from St Ann, Aldersgate parish. An Elizabeth Fry (Grimwade p.358) had entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall from 6 Bull and Mouth Street in 1775 as a gold worker.
Duty was paid by Isaac Foster, jeweller of St Andrews, Holborn, for the apprentice indentures of Joshua Cooper in 1782 and Edward Green in 1783.
There was an attestation in March 1786 by Henry Parker, Clerk of Chambers, that the Order of the Court of Aldermen for the (granting?) of Isaac Foster the freedom of the City in the Goldsmiths Company had been burnt in February in the Chamberlain’s Office. The document does not mention how or why the original Order had been destroyed.
The England & Wales Non-Conformist index records the birth in Bartlett’s Buildings Passage in 1796 of David George, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Foster and his baptisms at Doctor William’s Library, London and also at Lady Huntingdon’s Chapel, Blackfriars Road, Southwark. David George applied for his freedom by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company. This undated application indexed to 1823-4 records that his father Isaac, despite the fire which burnt the 1786 document, had been made free in that year.
Isaac was assessed to Land Tax on the property in Bartlett’s Buildings Passage from at least 1782 until 1798, the latter assessment referring to Isaac Foster & Co.
Trade Directories from 1785-1791 show him as a jeweller and goldsmith at the same address.
Elizabeth Foster (Grimwade p.358) entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1801 as a gold worker from 1 Bartlett Passage. This is certainly the same address as that used by Isaac as subsequent Land Tax assessments on Elizabeth show the full address as Bartlett’s Buildings Passage.
Isaac’s burial probably occurred between 1798 and 1801 and may have been Non-Conformist, the website records for which are relatively sparse.