Goldworkers List (Section VII).
He was christened at St Andrew, Holborn in 1800 the son of Robert and Ann Fenn of Gray’s Inn Lane.
Indentures were signed in 1814 as the son of Robert, a butcher at the previously noted address, to be the apprentice of Richard Mosley, jeweller of Castle Street, Holborn (Grimwade p.377).
In a document dated in 2 October 1821 in which he was referred to as a jeweller of 1 Gray’s Inn Lane he was granted freedom of the City of London in the Company of Barbers by servitude.
He entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1823 as a goldworker from that address and another from 121 Gray’s Inn Lane in 1827. He reported to Goldsmiths Hall in 1833 that he had moved to 6 Cleveland Street, Mile End and later the same year that he had moved again to 2 Vauxhall Street, Vauxhall.
The 1841 UK Census recorded him as a gold and silver refiner living at the Vauxhall Street address with his wife Anne aged 42 and three children. Christening records at St Mary Lambeth in the same year for the three children born circa 1836-39 repeat the same address but in these the father is described as “Gent”.
Christening of a daughter at the same church in 1842 repeated the address and the “Gent” description.
Two more of their children were christened in 1848 at Holy Trinity, Gray’s Inn Road their father being recorded as a goldsmith and their parents’ address as 3 Gray’s Inn Lane.
The 1851 UK Census recorded the family at 131 Silver Street, Edmonton where he was again shown as a gold and silver refiner as was his son Joshua (born circa1836).
In 1861 and 1871 he was recorded at 110 Park Street, Lambeth continuing the same trade.
His death is recorded in 1877 in the Lambeth register.