PILKINGTON, Benjamin (Grimwade p.356)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

Born 1784.
Christening record for St Sepulchre, Holborn register dated 30th May 1784. Parents Mark and Esther of Long Lane.
Marriage record at St Andrew, Holborn dated 27th November 1807. Both parties of St Andrew parish.
1841 UK Census for Hornsey as a goldsmith aged 57 years.
1851 UK Census for Wood Cottage, Hornsey as a retired goldsmith aged 66 years.
Died 1855.
London Deaths & Burials Index for St James, St Pancras registry dated 1st September 1855. Aged 71 years; last address 8 Oxford Terrace, Upper Holloway.

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Christening records for the children of Benjamin and Sarah Pilkington:-
At St Andrew, Holborn shows their address in 1809 as Eyre Place,
At St Sepulchre, Holborn shows their address in 1810 as Cock Lane,
At St James, Clerkenwell shows their address in 1814 as Wynatt Street,
At the same church two christenings records show their address in 1820 and 1823 as Coppice Row,
At the same church shows their address in 1825 as Percival Street.
All records 1814-1825 show Benjamin as a jeweller.
Maker’s marks were entered at Goldsmiths Hall in 1821 as a goldworker from Coppice Row and he notified the move to Percival Street in 1825.
He was still referred to as a goldsmith of Hornsey in a document in an application dated in 1848 for the freedom of the City of London for his son Alfred, a victualler at “Lansdown Arms”, Aldersgate

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The Will of Benjamin Pilkington, gentleman late of St Mary, Islington, was proved for probate on 17th September 1855 (National Archives reference PROB 11/2219/267).

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED

B. Pilkington the elder and B. Pilkington the younger, Clerkenwell,jewellers

Source: The Champion and Weekly Herald - 9th October 1837