Listing of Assayers Employed at the London Assay Office

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Listing of Assayers Employed at the London Assay Office

Postby dognose » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:04 pm

Listing of Assayers Employed at the London Assay Office

Dates listed are dates of appointment

1478 Christopher Elyot
1492(?) William Preston
1498 John Jonys
1525 Edmund Lee
1546 Oswald Lye
1559 Richard Rogers
1567 Thomas Keeling
1586(?) William Dymocke and Humphrey Scott
1600 William Dymocke
1617 Thomas Dymocke
1619 John Reynolds
1629 Alexander Jackson
1664 John Brattle
1669 Peter Trovell
1686 Nathaniel Bowles
1695 John Duck
1716 Nathaniel Bowles
1721 Joseph Ward
1739 Samuel Edlin
1746 Joseph Shillito
1748 Francis Pages
1772 Fendall Rushforth
1785 Walter Coles
1796 John Marriott
1804 Richard Bratton
1812 Edward Witham
1813 John Barrow
1818 Richard Lee
1822 Benjamin Preston
1824 George Miles
1837 Jeremiah Fuller
1863 Henry Matthey
1878 Henry Pizey
1887 Frederick W. Harrold
1906 George Pite
1919 Sidney C. Robinson
1928 Hugh Gamlen
1948 Sidney F. Haydon
1953 Henry R. Ingrey
1961 David B. Dalladay
1974 Paul V.A. Johnson

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Re: Listing of Assayers Employed at the London Assay Office

Postby silverly » Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:19 pm

The wedding of Nathaniel Bowles widower and goldsmith of St Leonard, Shoreditch in Charles Square and Hannah Harnoy widow of St John at Wapping is recorded is recorded on 14 February 1705 in the Stepney, Holy Trinity Minories parish records. Please pardon any misintrepretrations of this handwritten record and the districts and parishes of London.

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Re: Listing of Assayers Employed at the London Assay Office

Postby silverly » Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:56 pm

Make that Hannah Harney. Becoming accustomed to Elizabethan script can be trying.


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