Williams, John

Bristol & Gloucester, Gloucestershire; carver and gilder (fl. 1785–1799)

In 1787 at Square Lane and on 14 June insured his household goods for £900. A trade card of 1788 [BM, print dept] gives the address as ‘opposite the Floating Dock, Hot Well Road’. An address in Hotwell Road is also recorded 1792–93.

In December 1786 he insured two houses in the city of Gloucester and two shops for £200.

In 1795 at St Augustine's Back, and by 1799 he was at 17 Trinity Street.

This is perhaps the same man who in 1785 advertised ‘… a general assortment of walnut and Windsor chairs’.

Sources: DEFM; Parrott, ‘Three Eighteenth-Century Windsor Chairs Possibly Made in Bristol’, Regional Furniture (2014).