Mason, John

Lancaster, Lancashire.; joiner and cabinet maker (fl.1831-39)

The son of William, stonemason of Lancaster, he became a freeman in 1831-1832.

He was listed in the Gillow’s Petty Ledger for 1834-39.

He made a similar table to one made for Thomas Brockholes Esq. in December 1839; it was carved by Robert Farmer.

On 14 May 1835 he was named with twenty-four other workmen on the payroll when he earned £1 4s 4d. 

John Mason, cabinet maker, bound Edmund Simpson as his apprentice in 1832.

Source: Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840 (2008), II, p. 263.