TOOKEY, James (Grimwade p.683, 769)

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He entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1750 from Noble Street, Foster Lane. Land Tax records in 1752 show his close neighbours were Thomas Townraw (Grimwade p.683) and Fuller White (Grimwade p.698).
There are christening records of the children of James and Elizabeth Tookey (Grimwade p.683) at St Anne and St Agnes in 1752 of son Thomas (Grimwade p.683) and at St Olave, Silver Street in 1753-1760.
He moved to Silver Street in 1752 and is shown until 1767 assessed to Land Tax on property in St Olave’s Precinct, Silver Street.
Indentures were signed in 1759 for both Edward George Lambe, son of Edward John Lambe, Citizen and Goldsmith and Benjamin Edmonds of Newberry (Newbury) Berkshire to be his apprentices.
His wife Elizabeth is attributed with a maker’s mark from 1768 and was assessed to Land Tax on the St Olave’s Precinct property from that year which suggests James had died in 1767-8.

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8 October 1767 James Tookey burial recorded at Saint Olive Silver Street City of London.