Wormell, Joseph

London; joiner (fl. 1687-37)

Probably the son of Doughty Wormell, merchant of Southwark, apprenticed 7 June 1687 to William Fritter, free of the Joiners’ Company 2 July 1695. In 1718 declared his trade to be joiner and he was then at ‘The Golden Hat’, the east end of St Paul's Church, parish of St Faith. In 1722 had turned over to him the apprentice David Jones, who had been Isaac Puller’s apprentice until the latter’s death in 1721. His name associated with that of Benjamin Lane Wormell, his son, occurs in the Alscot Park archives, 1736–37, for work carried out to the West's London house in Covent Gdn. Much of the bill for £13 3s was for repair work to furniture but a large wainscot table bed was supplied at £1 12s and twelve chairs at £9 12s.

Source: DEFM; Dewing, ‘Cane Chairs, their Manufacture and Use in London, 1670-1730’, Regional Furniture (2008).