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Inland Revenue Board of Stamps transcript 26/1921 of 1770 records the apprenticeship of a John Oram to Henry Powell of St Lukes Old Street, silverbuckle cutter.

Westminster Pollbooks: Votes in Westminster Elections, 1749-1820 1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790
John Oram Bucklemaker of Grafton Street, St Anne Soho, voted for Fox

The following may relate to his father perhaps
St Martin's Settlement Exams: St Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793
26th February 1753
John Williams aged 28 years and upwards at Mrs Morgan's in Cross Lane in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields upon his oath saith he is a Buckle Maker by trade and was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to John Orme [sic] a Silver Smith in that part of Denmark Court which is in the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden and there served about three years and an half, and then his Master removed into the other side of Denmark Court which is in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields aforesaid and this Examinant with him and there s[t]aid about one year

John Oram's sole mark was entered 31 October 1789 as a bucklemaker at 5 Grafton Street , Soho
There is a later note in the Register that he "removed to no 29". Presumably still in Grafton Street

An example of his mark, on a buckle of 1791/92



It seems quite likely that he was related, perhaps directly , to John Orme I, (Grmwade 610) as John had bucklemaking connections . Oram may be an alternate spelling of Orme

The mark also appears on tongs, as was usual with bucklemakers, and is easily confused with that of John Ollivant of Manchester