Finnis, Robert

Hythe, Kent; upholsterer (fl.1768–1803)

Trading in the High Street in 1803. 

The son of Robert Finnis, a carpenter of Dover; apprenticed to John Allen on 6 May 1768, and admitted a freeman of the Upholders’ Company by servitude on 17 September 1781.

He purchased Sun Insurance policies on 18 February 1791 for £200; and on 2 February 1793 for £200 on a house with barn and stable at Sandgate, near Folkestone, and £100 on household goods [GL Upholders’ Company records; The London Archives (TLA), Sun MS vol. 375, p. 468; vol. 392, p. 292].

Possibly of Finnis & Ronalds

Source: DEFM