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MORE, Jacob (1835)

It's not too often you come across an advertisement published by one of the entries in Grimwades, but below is one by Jacob More (Grimwade 1835).


More - London - 1801

Jacob More entered his one and only mark at Goldsmiths Hall on the 16th January 1795 from 20, New Street, Covent Garden.

Source: 'The Morning Post and Gazetteer' of Thursday 15th January 1801. Issue 10094.

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Link to an image of the trade card of Jacob More:

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The christening of Elizabeth, the daughter of Jacob and Betty More, was registered at St George, Bloomsbury in 1777.
He is listed in the 1795 London Poll Book, along with Robert More, as jewellers at 20 New Street, Covent Garden. He had entered a mark alone as a small worker in that year from that address. It is noticeable that the previously mentioned trade card and the advertisement do not specifically show the name Jacob but there may have been a partnership.
The Will of Jacob More, jeweller and silversmith late of Grove Street in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields, was proved for probate on 24th December 1801 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1367/259).

13 May 1791 Jacob More Saint Martins in the Fields Middlesex jeweller paid apprentice indenture duty for Francis Marshall.

Pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 9th Day of July 1803, made in a cause wherein Thomas More, otherwise Woolly, an Infant, is Plaintiff, and John Butt and others are Defendants, and of an Order of the said Court, dated the 18th Day of July 1804, the Creditors of Jacob More, late of New-Street, Covent-Garden, in the City of Westminster, Jeweller, deceased, are forthwith to come in and prove their Debts before Samuel Compton Cox, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton-Buildings, Chancery-Lane, London, or in Default thereof they will be excluded the Benefit of the said Decree.

Source: The London Gazette - 12th-16th February 1805

In a follow-up notice( LG-18th-22nd June 1805) the spelling of the infants name was Woolley.