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 V and VI.


V. List of Apprentices taken on by John Cooke to 1800

 

Stephen Cooke (brother)        1787    no fee (see below)

Samuel Papps                          1790    £25.00

John Buck                                1790    £26. 5s

William Henry Hayes              1799    £21.00

James Isaac Thomas Kensett   1799    £31.10s

Joseph Wright                          1800    £20.00

Edward Field                            1800    £40.00

My thanks to Laurence Worms who provided these details gathered from BBTI, COPAC, Susanne Fisher, Ian Maxted, Moir, Schrire and Tooley.



VI. List of Addresses used by John Cooke 

Tooks Court, Cursitor Street

1787

apprenticeship returns

Morgan Bldgs, New Road, St Georges

1789

Map 1A

4 Clare Court, Drury Lane[1]

1790-1791

1B and Elements of Rigging

Mill Hill, Middlesex[2]

1792-94

2, 3, 4 & Elements of Rigging

Hendon

1795-96

5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Fleet Prison

1797

London Gazette

50 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square[3]

1799-1802

10, 11, 12, 13, 14

11 Pratt Place, Camden Town

1805-11

16, 17 and Apprentice Index[4]

57 High Street, Bloomsbury

1812

21 (James Cooke´s address)

Parish of St Andrew, Plymouth

1813-1827

Parish registers of births

Fore Street, Stonehouse[5]

1814

“opposite RN Hospital”

Union Street, New Road, Stonehouse

1815

Advert for Napoleon print

Stonehouse, Plymouth

1817-23

23, 24, 24A, 26, 28, 29

New Road, Stonehouse

1823

20.2

48 Union Street, Stonehouse[6]

1823-24

30, 31

82 Union Street, Stonehouse

1827-45

32, 33 (no house no.), 34, 36



Apprenticeship agreement between John Cooke and Stephen Cooke [3] 

Notes

[1] Also listed in The British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture for 1791. Address on six engravings for David Steel.

[2] Address on 21 engravings for David Steel and a further four Mill Hill from Clare Ct, (15 are illegible).

[3] The addition of Fitzroy Square is only seen on Mrs Cooke´s trade card (1802) and on two plates reissued with the Synopsis in Parts Issue form.

[4] Ian McKeer, a Cooke descendent, from Apprentice Index in the years 1809-11.

[5] This is given in The Plymouth, Plymouth Dock and Stonehouse General Directory (p.77) and Nile, E is listed as Stationer also in Fore Street. They are not in the 1812 edition. Courtesy of Ian McKeer.

[6] Pigot´s Directory for 1822-23 in Stonehouse. In Brindey´s 1830 directory simply Union Street.


 


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