Citizen, John

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John & Elizabeth Citizen were in the printed list of 77 signatories dated 5.12.1788 and were both baptised 15.6.1788 New Jerusalem

John Citizen buried 29.5.1818 Bunhill Fields age 39 so would have been only 9 in 1788. A Charles John Citzen was bapt Shoreditch 20.10.1776 born 4.10.1776 of Charles & Jane Citzen. John Citizen bach = 26.10.1798 Shoreditch by lic Hannah Ghost sp witness Charles Citizen. John T Citizen appr 7.2.1793 to Wm Barclay citizen & Barber of London. Public Advertiser 19.10.1785 John Citizen carpetmaker and then chandler of Golden Lane which fits with John Citizen Old Bailey victim 11.5.1786 where Golden Lane was mentioned as the place of arrest of the alleged thief. Citizen Land Tax St Luke's Golden Lane 1781 to 1796. There was a rector of West Ham, Essex who died 1751 and a mariner will PCC 1745 both called John Citizen. A Jane Citizen of Hoxton was an Old Bailey witness 15.6.1791. A few years later after the French Revolution it may have been an alias with radical chic, but unlikely in 1788