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The Finer Family
Miscellaneous Documents
Essex Records Office
Court records:
New Hall, Tendring 1775: Jury for the seat of Tendring includes: John Finer the elder, John Finer and John Vesey
Elected: John Finer, as one of three Bread and ale tasters
John Finer (6) rented from Phillip Denis a farm, pasture and house S.W. of the church 158 acres and owned a 7 acre lot NNW of Tendring Hall. 1840
Henry Finer owning property near Tendring 1874
The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Vol. IX
1973 Karin M Watson
Guildhall Library PAM 12524
The Worshipful Company of Upholders ( Upholsterers ) of the City of London
Guild List ca. 1800 showing date of entry into guild ( R = bought into Guild )
Finer, James 1786 R Upholder of 19 Leadenhall St.
Finer, William 1786 R Upholder of 19 Leadenhall St.
now of 21 Cammilo St. ( Camomile St. )
Guildhall Records
1831 Livery Polls and pamphlet 10135, Freedom Admissions to the Upholders Co. of London1804 -1923, J. F. Houstin
John admitted 1820-Patrimony then living at Alfred Cottage,Stepney
John Finer, Alfred Cottage, Stepney. Upholder ( William's son b. 1807 )
also
Thomas Owen admitted 1865 by Patrimony of South Grove ( John's son b. 1835 )
Masters of the Worshipful Company of Upholders
1854 John Finer
1873 Thomas Owen Finer
1892 Thomas Owen Finer
1913 Thomas Owen Finer
The Upholders' company was in existence by 1360. Members of the Company engaged in various trades, as well as upholsterers, often being dealers in old clothes, furniture and pawnbrokers. A list of masters of the Company appears on their web site (hhtp://www.upholders.co.uk).
Clockmaking and Watchmaking in Colchester by Bernard Mason pub. 1969
Finer, Thomas of London
The son of John Finer,farmer of Tendring,near Colchester. He was descended from John Finer, Chairmaker of Colchester in the last Quarter of the seventeenth century.
Thomas Finer practised as a watchmaker in London but visited
Colchester to vote at the polls on six occasions between 1788 and 1820.
He was in partnership with Nowland at 5, Hatton Garden from 1800 to 1805
and at 48, High Holborn 1808 to 1823
Guide to Clacton - 1885
(full page advertisement)
H. Finer
No. 4, Douglas Terrace
Rosemary Road
General Draper and Milliner, Mantles & Jackets, A large assortment of Seaside and other Boots and Shoes.
Henry Finer
Douglas House,Orwell Road
Grocer, Tea dealer and Provision Merchant, and General Provider
Agent for C.Harris's Wiltshire Bacon
Agent for W&A Gilbey's Wines and Spirits
All kinds of ales and stouts in Casks
Sommerset House, 1979 visit, Essex records.
Anne Finer, March 1839, Died at Tendring, Essex
William Finer, January 1842, Died at Stepney, buried at Tendring, Essex
Thomas Richard Finer, July - September 1871, Born at Tendring, Essex
Laura Isabel Finer, July- September 1871, Born at Tendring, Essex
Horace Finer, 1917, Killed in Action
The Abney Park Cemetery Indexing Project
A searchable database at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~abneypark/abneyy.html
| Name | Date | Age | Burial | Section | Index |
| Spicer, Mary Ann | 14 November 1864 | 73y | 034202 | M08 | 1S12 |
| Finer, John | 02 September 1871 | 65y | 048606 | M08 | 2S05 |
| Finer, Mary | 01 June 1882 | 67y | 071450 | M08 | 3S01 |
| Finer, Mary Owen | 18 May 1912 | 80y | 119916 | M08 | 6S02 |
Grave Number: 034202 A family grave, addresses have not been entered yet.
Mary Ann Spicer. Date matches John (7)'s sister Mary Finer christened 21 Dec 1792 Stepney, Spitalfields Christ Church
John (7), b. 1807, son of William (4)
Mary ( nee Mary Owen ) wife of John (7), 1881 Census, Islington
Mary Owen, daughter of John (7) & Mary, 1881 Census, Islington ( Address shown as: The Spa Private Hotel, Scarborough )
| Finer, Harriet Louisa | 08 January 1921 | 59y | 135108 | O07 | 7S03 |
Harriet Louisa, daughter of George (2) & Elizabeth, 1881 Census, Leyton, Essex ( now London ) Address shown as: 230 High Street, Homerton ( poss. Nursing Home )
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