Occupation - engraver

 

                                                        Josiah Taylor was involved in the design of this advertisement

My search for more information about the Hinton family line brought me to another well-known family, the Taylors of Ongar. I had never heard of them before but it was another family line that, while remote, could prove to be interesting to research. The link to the Taylors came through James Hinton, the son of Thomas Hinton and Mary Strange. This James Hinton (there are a few of them) married Ann Taylor. Ann belonged to the Taylors of Ongar, a well-known dissenting family, an appropriate bride for James Hinton, minister of the Oxford Congregational Church.

The bride, Ann Taylor, was the daughter of Josiah Taylor the engraver, according to the book about James that I was able to access online. My immediate thought was that Josiah Taylor worked engraving metal such as silver. But the fact that he was known as the engraver rather than an engraver, meant that he was probably well-known. So I went looking for some of his work.

The images I found weren't of metal objects which confused me until I looked up the trade in A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations. Apparently engravers didn't just work with metal with one of the main mediums they were known to engrave being printing blocks. It's amazing the information research can turn up.

Sources:

Hopkins, Ellice Life and Letters of James Hinton Ballantyne Press  https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofjam00hintiala/page/n5/mode/2up 

Waters, Colin A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations Countryside Books, Newbury, Berkshire, 2002

Images:

By Print made by: Josiah Taylor (?)Lettering engraved by: E Gullan - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_D-2-312, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90226464