Hall, John

Lancaster, Lancs.; sawyer? and cabinet maker (fl.1728-1774)

He was a Roman Catholic who became a freeman in 1727-28, the same year that Robert Gillow and George Haresnape became free. He was born in Lancaster about 1704. In 1767 he was a cabinet maker living with his daughter Ann, a spinster aged twenty-four. He is recorded in the Gillow Archive at various dates. He made an armchair with wings for Benjamin Satterthwaite about 1760. In September of the same year he was paid for 2½ days’ labour on ‘Mr. Clifford's water spouts’ with John Thornbarrow and Simeon Dodgshon, at Park Hall. He was paid with other Gillow workmen in May 1761, May and July 1762. He made several lampstands, one with a fluted pillar and plain top, another with a plain pillar and top. He was perhaps the John Hall, sawyer, whose son Thomas was apprenticed to Thomas Lister, cabinet maker, from 10 March 1770 for eight years. Hall was still employed by the Gillow brothers in 1774.

Source: Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840 (2008), II, p. 245.