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Marsh, Isaac (1737-1809)

Marsh, Isaac, Liverpool, cm (b.1737–d.1809). Addresses given at Water St in 1767; Pool Lane, 1767–69; 35 Atherton St in 1774; no. 53 in 1777; no. 48 in 1781; 7 King St in 1787; no. 9 in 1790; 8 King St, Pool Lane, 1796–1804; no. 9 in 1805; and no. 10 in 1807. Petitioned freedom as freeborn son of Richard Marsh, ‘musicioner’, in 1759, and admitted freeman in 1761. Former app., Edward Myers, petitioned freedom in 1780; and Thomas Jones in 1784. Took apps named Charles Pemberton in 1788, petitioned freedom in 1796; Mathew Massey in 1792, petitioned in 1802; Robert Corrin in 1795, Henry Gill in 1798, and John Swaine in 1799, all three petitioning freedom in 1806; William Kennedy in 1802, petitioned freedom in 1812; and John James in 1807 who was app. to John Ward Turner in 1810 after Marsh's death, and petitioned freedom in 1816. Marsh advertised that he ‘makes & sells all kinds of CABINET GOODS on the most reasonable terms’ and had rooms in Pool Lane to let, in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 24 July 1767. Notice of his death, aged 72, on 15 November 1809, as ‘a man of the strictest integrity & uprightness’, reported in Liverpool Courier, 29 November. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk]

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