Henderson, William, Newcastle, upholder (1709–41). App. to Thomas Webster, and admitted freeman on 12 December 1709. Took apps named Richardson in 1712, Lambert in 1720, and Watson in 1728. Took out Sun Insurance policies for £500 on 24 June 1722 for goods and merchandise in his house; and on 22 October 1726 for £500. Possibly the William Henderson who supplied William Ramsay jnr, of Park House, Gateshead, c.1711–15, with a dozen walnut chairs at 8s 3d, two armchairs at 11s 9d, 66½, yards of ‘blew print’, and ‘1,000 gullets with nails and thread’. He also charged 5s for ‘hanging the room’, and 9s ‘for making three pair of window vallance and curtains’. [Poll bks; Newcastle freemen reg.; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 14, ref. 21202; vol. 22, p. 425; E. Hughes, North Country Life in the 18th Century, the North-East, 1700–50, 1952, p. 49]