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Bellerby, John snr (1782-1827)

Bellerby, John snr, Micklegate, York, u, cm and undertaker (b. 1782–d. 1827). App. and journeyman to William Hawkin. Freeman by 1811. [York Courant, 1 July 1811; 20 November 1815] Advertised in York Gazette, 3 July 1819. Death reported in York Gazette, 16 June 1827 aged 45 at 14 Micklegate. Successor, Thomas Hands, announced, York Gazette, 30 June 1827. He took John Bellerby jnr as app. Bellerby snr took apps named Joseph Waterhouse, 12 August 1809; John Blakey, 25 July 1811; Richard Carter, 1 June 1814; John Alexander Beilby, 14 September 1818; and Marmaduke Maw, 26 April 1826. [D; York freemen rolls and app. reg.]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.