HOOKHAM, John (Grimwade p.365)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

Born around 1750.
Christening record for St Matthew, Bethnal Green register dated 30th January 1750. Father John a weaver and mother Isabella.
Apprentice Indenture Duties paid for Tobias Smith in july 1774 and Thomas Harrison in May 1778.
Died 1829.
London Deaths & Burials Index for St Leonard, Shoreditch register dated 28th April 1829. Aged 78 years; last address Goldsmiths' Almshouses.

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He signed indentures in 1765 as the son of John Hookham, weaver of Christ Church parish, London to be the apprentice of Thomas Satchwell (Grimwade p.285, 382) of the Goldsmiths Company, a jeweller from Paternoster Row.