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see Francis Place's Autobiography, ed. Mary Thale p 136 (1795 her husband had been dead about a year, had a considerable trade in gloves, also breeches. Two foremen, in charge of breeches was Irishman McDonald)

William Barnes = St George Bloomsbury 22.1.1781 Hannah Beechey botp banns sigs wit Hannah Willcockberton

William Barnes glover, breeches maker 7 Orange St, Bloomsbury, Andrews Directory 1790

William Barnes glover Orange St, Red Lion Square will dated 16.7.1793 dear wife Hannah proved PCC 7.8.1793
William Barnes buried Islington 22.7.1793 age 40

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see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 88 (leather stainer & dresser)

William Bayley Soho ratebooks Little Newport St south 1781 £32 1787 £34
William Bayley leatherseller Newport St Soho  voted 1784 Hood & Wray 1788 Townshend 1790 Fox

John Bayley breeches maker Duchy Lane, St Mary le Strand voted 1788 Townshend

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 42. (rival school to Place's schoolmaster John Bowis)

John Rule will PCC 22.11.1775 Stepney

William Bird schoolmaster 59 Fetter Lane & James Fergusson & Thomas Swanson Tower St, Wapping, executors of John Rule, SunFire 1779, 1780, 1786

William Bird Fetter Lane broker Wakefields directory 1790
William Bird 3 Bond Stables, Fetter Lane, academy Holdens directory 1790

see Francis Place's Autobiography p 42 (Place's schoolmaster)

Francis Bowis tailor Holywell Street voted Vandeput 1749
Francis Bowis taylor of St Clement Danes wid marr. lic 12.2.1750 Mary Sutton of Holborn wid at St Bride's
Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 22.12.1751 St Clement Danes
John son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 4.3.1753 St Clement Danes
Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 15.9.1758 St Clement Danes
Mary Bowis (adult) buried 8.3.1759 St Clement Danes
Francis Bowis tailor Windsor Court voted Mountmorris…

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p 88 (according to Place, Bury was one of his father's cronies, a gentlemanly man in some government office, who died poor and miserable in the extreme. An unnamed woman whom Place perhaps implied was Bury's mistress kept a lace and fringe shop for him in the Strand between Arundel and Norfolk Streets. Place said that Bury "sold" her daughter at age 14. At 15 the daughter had a child, at 17 she married a young man who went to the West Indies, made money, then came home and died. The daughter lived on his money but later became a prostitute…