Crowdson, John (1779-1799)
Crowdson, John
Lancaster, joiner and cabinet maker (1779–99).
Free 1779–80 and stated to be of Haslingden, Lancs. Named in the Gillow records as a joiner, 1785–99. [Lancaster freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/94, p. 459]. The Gillow Estimate Sketch Book for 1788 records that it took him 12 days to make a ‘Buro bedstead made of deal behind’ (illus. (Gilbert (1991), fig. 226).
Source: DEFM; Gilbert, English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900 (1991).
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.
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