HORSLEY, John (Grimwade p.551-2)

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As a widower from that parish he had married Elizabeth Durant at Christ Church, Spitalfields in 1757.
Indentures were signed in 1758 by William Haywood to be his apprentice. The name of the Livery Company has been crossed out from the indentures for some reason but previously read “Loriner”.
Three children of John and Elizabeth Horsley were christened at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1759-62 when their address was Hoxton Market Place.
No previous detail of his apprenticeship has been noted but he may have been the John Horsley of the Loriners (sic) Company listed in the 1768 London Poll Book also from an address in Hoxton. He was shown in the 1773 Parliamentary Report as a candlestick maker at an address in Hoxton.
His son John’s application for freedom by patrimony in the Loriners (sic) Company in 1796 shows his father was made free in 1751

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2 December 1741 John son of James Horsley of the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of Middlesex weaver apprenticed to John Wright Loriner of London.

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Baptized 2 Jan 1726/27, St Dunstan’s, Stepney parish, Tower Hamlets borough, Middlesex: “John Horsley, son of Ja[me]s Horsley of B[ethnal] G[reen], wea[ver] & Jane"

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3 November 1797 John Horsley the Elder of Haberdashers Walk Hoxton in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County Middlesex Brass Founder will proved at London. Reference: TNA PROB 11/1298/17