Goldsmiths List (Section VII).
As the son of John Harley, silk draper of Spitalfields, he was apprenticed to Jeremiah Jeffcoat of the Goldsmiths Company in 1751 and free in 1759-60.
In 1764 indentures were signed by William (Grimwade p.578), son of David le Bas, watch maker of Long Acre, to be his apprentice. Grimwade notes on page 594 that William le Bas was turned over to Samuel Meriton I on the same day.
As “a small worker in gold” he paid Duty for the apprentice indentures of John Dudley in 1765.
He entered a mark a Goldsmiths Hall in 1778 as a gold worker from 14 Great Turnstile, Holborn.
Indentures were signed in 1781 by Richard, son of Richard Dawson of the Goldsmiths Company, an engraver from Bagnio’s Court, Newgate Street, to be his apprentice at Foster Lane.
In 1782 he notified Goldsmiths Hall of a change of address to 7 Priest Court, Foster Lane.
Indentures were signed in 1786 by John, the son of John Hitchins, a tobacconist in Coleman Street, Shadwell, to be his apprentice at Foster Lane.
In 1787 he notified Goldsmiths Hall he had moved to 6 “Shack’lwell”.
His burial in 1821 aged 85 years was recorded at St Leonard, Shoreditch; his last address was Goldsmith’s Alms Houses.
HARLEY, Isaac (Grimwade p.366)
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