LINSEY, William (Grimwade p.329)
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:35 am
He may have been William the son of James and Ann Linsey who was christened at St Luke, Finsbury in 1749.
Page 199 of Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World records he was apprenticed in 1763 but provides no date for his freedom. No indentures for this apprenticeship have been traced.
William, the son of William Linsey, watch case maker and his wife Elizabeth, was christened at St Giles, Cripplegate in 1777.
Their daughter Elizabeth in 1781 and son James in 1784 were both christened at St Botolph, Aldersgate.
He entered a mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall in 1794 as a case maker from 2 Bridgewater Gardens and notified a move to 10 Norman Street, St Luke’s parish, Old Street in 1795.
His son James was apprenticed to John Southworth of the Stationers Company in 1798.
The burial of a William Linsey aged 61 years, late of Norman Street, was registered in 1810 at St Luke’s church.
Page 199 of Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World records he was apprenticed in 1763 but provides no date for his freedom. No indentures for this apprenticeship have been traced.
William, the son of William Linsey, watch case maker and his wife Elizabeth, was christened at St Giles, Cripplegate in 1777.
Their daughter Elizabeth in 1781 and son James in 1784 were both christened at St Botolph, Aldersgate.
He entered a mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall in 1794 as a case maker from 2 Bridgewater Gardens and notified a move to 10 Norman Street, St Luke’s parish, Old Street in 1795.
His son James was apprenticed to John Southworth of the Stationers Company in 1798.
The burial of a William Linsey aged 61 years, late of Norman Street, was registered in 1810 at St Luke’s church.