jan 1, 1662 - anchorsmith

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A maker of anchors. The OED has examples only from 1662 when the diarist Pepys visited Mr Timbull who was an anchor-smith and also the mayor. The occupation was established in Scarborough from the fourteenth century at least: 1391 <i>Johannes Eston de Scardeburgh le Ankersmyth</i> (SS4/163): in his will this man left his anvil, great hammers, smaller hammers and pairs of tongs to an apprentice and a near relative (SS4/163). The other early references were also in Scarborough: 1432 <i>John Alissonson, Scardeburgh, ankersmyth</i> (YRS6/3); 1522 <i>Robert Clerke, ankarsmyth</i> (SS79/154); 1588 <i>Thomas Clarke, Skarbroughe, ankker smythe</i> (YRS22/27). Baines’s North Riding directory of 1822 had three entries under ‘Anchor Smiths’, and they included William and Benjamin March of Sand side, Scarborough. There were also anchor-smiths in Hull: 1585 <i>John Butler, Hull, anckersmyth</i> (YRS22/21); 1593 <i>Robert Hipingestall, Hull, ancker smythe </i>(YRS22/61).

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