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Joseph Collyer & Mary (Mitchell) –
Writers and Translators

1. Register – High Pavement Presbyterian Church, Nottingham (BAP88) Stationers’ Company Freedom Record – Joseph Collyer (Elder), 1744. 2. Corporation of London Records Office source ref CF1/167
2. Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegation (Microfilm)
3. Parish Register – St Gregory by St Paul, London (Guildhall Library Source Ref Ms 18,934
4. Bankes Pedigree Book of the Haberdashers’ Company:
5. Apprenticeship Indenture, Robert Mitchell, 1706. Corporation of London Records Office source ref CF1/309
6. A variety of sources attest to this, including records of the Court of Chancery, The Bankes Pedigree Book of the Haberdashers’ Company, 7. London, and the Will of John Bankes (Prob 1719, PCC), The National Archives Source Ref Prob11/573, q.78
7. Thesis – Life and Works of Mary Mitchell Collyer, 1917, Helen Sard Hughes, University of Chicago, June 1917, p.2
8. See note 2 above
9. A variety of sources attest to this, including records of the Court of Chancery and The Bankes Pedigree Book of the Haberdashers’ Company, London. However, we have not traced baptism records.
10. Burials Register – St Mary, Islington, Source London Metropolitan Archives source ref P83/71, Microfilm Ref X85/78 (BUR09)
11. Hughes, Helen Sard (1917), p. 9
12. Calculated from Burial Record – Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 30 April 1822, The National Archives Source Ref RG4/3996 (BUR12b)
13. Admons – Joseph Collyer (Prob 1776 PCC), The National Archives Source Ref Prob 6/152, q.174
14. Marriage Register, St Andrew, Holborn, Guildhall Library source ref Ms 6671/4
15. Marriage Register, St James, Clerkenwell, , London Metropolitan Archives source ref P76/JS1
16. Court of Chancery Source Master’s Report dated 18 December 1776, The National Archives source ref C38/665
17. The Annual Register (Dodsley,J, 1796)
18. Court of Chancery Response dated 8 February 1768, The National Archives source ref C12/1236.27
19. Admons re the Estate of Joseph Collyer (1776, PCC). The National Archives Source ref Prob 6/152, fo 174
20. Court of Chancery Source – Haberdashers’ Company Bankes Trust Cash Book – The National Archives source ref C108/116.
21. The Will of James Jacobson (Prob 1758, PCC). The National Archives Source ref Prob11/847, q.205
22. Court of Chancery Response dated 3 August 1764, The National Archives source ref C12/1236.27
23. See note 21 above
24. London Gazette, 29 July – 1 August 1749, held on microfilm at The National Archives
25. Corporation of London Record Office source ref SMD9
26. Corporation of London Record Office source ref DS13/9/2
27. Court of Chancery Response dated 9 February 1768, The National Archives source ref C12/1236/27. In this document Ann Collyer states that she reached 21 years of age on 16 Nov. 1767
28. See 26 above
29. The Death of Abel in Five Books, by Mary Collyer, 12th ed (1780), pp ii-iii
30. The Dictionary of National Biography Vol IV, eds Stephen, L & Lee, S, Oxford, 1917
31. See Collyer Chronology (Mitchell, H)
32. See note 28 above
33. See note 29 above
34. Grossman, J, 1999, p 5
35. See note 11 above
36. Website http//www.r-alston.dircon.co.uk-circ1.htm..
37. Hughes, Helen Sard (1917), p. 11
38. See 33 above
39. Picard, L, 2000, p.156
40. Porter, R., 1996, p.162
41. See note 10 above

Bibliography
 Grossman, J, (1999) ‘Mary Collyer’s The History of Betty Barnes: Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel’, academic paper.
Hughes, Helen Sard (1917) Thesis – Life and Works of Mary Mitchell Collyer, University of Chicago
Porter R, (1996) London A Social History, Penguin Books Ltd.

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Joseph Collyer the Younger

1. Website Oxford DNB online htttp://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65008/5970?docPos=2
2. Court of Chancery Response of Ann Collyer dated 1764, The National Archives ref C12/1236.27, Mitchell v Holloway.
3. Marriages at St Andrew Holborn 1768-74, Guildhall Library, London, Source Ref Ms6681/4.
4. Court of Chancery Master’s Report The National Archives ref C38/665, Mitchell v Holloway.
5. Marriages at St James Clerkenwell 1551-1949, London Metropolitan Archives Ref P76/JS1.
6. Baptisms at Leyland – Bishops Transcripts, Lancashire Record Office Source Ref DRB2/144. Microfolm No 2/105.
7. Website Oxford Dictionary of National Biography www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5572?docPos=8
8. Marriage Licence Allegation dated 4 November 1775 – Joseph Collyer m Dulcybella Clayton, Guildhall Library, London ref Ms10,091/133.
9. Baptisms at Finsbury Independent Tabernacle, 1768-1840, The National Archives ref RG4/4262/4523
10. Baptisms at Kingsweigh House Independent Chapel 1774-1789, The National Archives ref RG4/4394/4500
11. See note 9. Also see the Stationers’ Company Beadle’s Book 1786-1834. A list of the Court (p 173) records Joseph’s addresses.
12. Register of Voters in the City of London 1836, Family History Center, Kensington, MD, USA Microfilm no 475,529.
13. See 11 above. Also the Will of Joseph Collyer Junior, probate the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1846. The National Archives Source ref Prob11/2840, q 156
14. The Will of Joseph Collyer the Younger, probate the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1828. The National Archives Source Ref Prob11/1737, fo 226.
15. See 13 above.
16. See 10 above.
17. See 7 above.
18. Record of Monumental Inscriptions at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, compiled in 1869. Guildhall Library, London source ref Ms897, page 21/129.
19. Bunhill Fields Interment Order Book, Guildhall Library, London source ref Ms1092.
20. Death Certificate, Mary Collyer. Civil Registration Deaths index ref Mar 1839; District Clerkenwell; Vol 3; Page 27
21. See 5 above.
22. Dr Williams’s Library Registration Certificate no 1375 dated 18 August 1798. The National Archives Source Ref RG5/21.
23. Burials Register – Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, entry dated 22 June 1800. The National Archives Source Ref RG4/3989.
24. See 11 above.
25. Letter from Joseph Collyer (the Younger) to Benjamin West dated 28 January 1812. Held by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Source Ref not known.
26. See website url http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/biblesociety/)
27. Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1828, pp184-5.
28. See 18 & 19 above.
29. See 19 above.
30. See 20 above.
31. See 27 above.
32. See 27 above.
33. Stationers’ Company listing of Apprenticeships – source ref not known.
Note: A child of a freeman of a livery company could obtain his freedom of his father’s company provided:
(a) He had been born in legal wedlock.
(b) He was the natural child of a freeman.
(c) He had been born after the date of his father’s freedom admision.
34. Stationers’ Company Beadle’s Book – see 11 above.
35. McKenzie FD (ed), Stationers’ Company apprentices 1701-1800 : Oxford Bibliographical Society new series, vol. 19, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1978. On the London/Middlesex shelves at Society of Genealogists Library, London. Shelf mark MX/CC 89, acc no 68842.
36. See 14 above.

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