Postby buckler » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:05 pm
Goldsmiths Hall kalamazoo record show that William Taylor , son of William Taylor was apprenticed to John Eaton in 1765 and turned over same day to his father, a Leatherseller. This indicates that William Taylor I was a Leatherseller but his son, William Taylor II was free of the Goldsmiths
He appears for at least three years in the Poor Rates book at No 9, Huggin Lane at the same time as Widow Taylor was still shown at No 7. Perhaps the business moved to No 9 and the widow stayed on at No 7.
Heal records a William Taylor as a bucklemaker c1780 at Huggin Alley, Gutter Lane,Cheapside - but this is almost certainly an incorrect dating of the trade card of William Taylor I - the address was almost certainly known as Huggin LANE by 1780.
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Grimwade and Helen Clifford in "Silver in London " , page 200 ,equate the William Tayler who was a partner with John Wakelin from 1776 with William Taylor II . He is given, page 106, as the half brother of Thomas Forrest , "William Paris Tayler, who had joined Parker and Wakelin in 1769 and would eventually take over the business with John Wakelin in 1776 " Page 143 gives him as also "half brother to Stephen Vitou", a client and , page 196, as having appeared in the business accounts from 1769 as an employee of Wakelin and Parker.
I consider it unlikely that William Paris Tayler = William Taylor II.
William Taylor II was still under apprenticeship to his father in 1769 and is shown in trade directories and the Poor Rate Books still at No 9 Huggin Lane in 1780.