Ebenezer Coker

Ebenezer Coker Son of William Coker of Berkhampsted in the Country of Hertford, cheesemonger, apprenticed to Joseph Smith, 21 October 1728. No premium stated. Free,7 February 1740. First mark entered 27 March 1738. Address: Clerkenwell Green. Second mark, 25 June 1739. Third mark,24 May 1745. Fourth mark, 20 December 1751. A fifth mark was probably entered after 1758, and another, in partnership with Thomas Hammond (Hannam), 1759-60. Described as widower, of St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, on marriage to Elizabeth Ransey of the same parish, 1 December 1739, at St Bene’t Pauls Wharf. Heal records him as a plateworker at the Golden Cup and Rising Sun, Clerkenwell Close or Green, 1738; with Thomas Hammond (Hannam) as goldsmiths, same address, dissolving partnership 1760; alone at Clerkenwell Close and 13 Wood Street, 1770. Appears as goldsmith, Clerkenwell Close, in the Parl.Report list 1773, His clerk and assistant gave evidence to the committee when Coker was described as: a large plate  manufacturer. Bankrupt,1781 (The Gentleman's Magazine for December that year). Died 2 August 1783, “Upon Clerkenwell Green, Mr Coker, many years a goldsmith in Clerkenwell Close” ( The Gentleman’s Magazine ). Like John Carter, his chief productions were candlesticks and salvers.