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Floruit: 1551–1577
Floruit 1551 (B) — 1577 (A); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
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| Death |
- on 16 Oct 1577 |
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Family Relationships
| LBTNumber |
Name |
Relationship |
Occupation |
Comments
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| 3271 |
REVELL, Margaret (mar. TOY) ‹ LBT 03271 › |
spouse |
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| 8604 |
TOY, Robert ( - 1556) ‹ LBT 08604 › |
parent |
Printer |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - H. matriculated in 1551 so he is unlikely to have been the child of Robert's second marriage in 1546.
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| 3268 |
TOY, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 03268 › |
parent |
|
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) - H. matriculated in 1551 so he is unlikely to have been the child of Robert's second marriage in 1546.
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| 6417 |
TOY, Rose (mar. PEPWELL) ‹ LBT 06417 › |
sibling |
|
Duff, E.G. (1905)
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| 36837 |
ELLISON, Joseph ‹ LBT 36837 › |
sibling |
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Duff, E.G. (1905)
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| 35211 |
TOY, Johanne ‹ LBT 35211 › |
child |
|
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Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Stationers' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Bookseller |
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910)
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Had Apprentice(s): (6)
Addresses (1)
Events (8)
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
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SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
ODNB - article by I Gadd
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.267-8
TOY (HUMPHREY), bookseller in London, 1560-78; The Helmet, St. Paul's Churchyard. Son of Rohert Toy { TOY, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 03268 › }, printer (1542-56): matriculated as a sizar of Queens' College, Cambridge, November, 1551 [Cooper Athen. Cantab. i. 4]. Humphrey took up his freedom in the Company of Stationers on March 11th, 1557/8, and made his first entry in the Registers on August 30th, 1560 [Arber, i. 71, 150]. He was admitted to the Livery on July 6th, 1561 [Arber, i. 161] His father left him the reversion uf the premises known by the sign uf the Bell, after his mother's death. Meanwhile he set up in business at the sign of the Helmet. In 1564 Humphrey Toy brought an action in the Court of Chancery against Robert Leche, Chancellor of West Chester, to recover the balance of a sum of £50 6s. 8d., owed to him for copies of The Second tome of Homelyes with the boke of Articles [Chan. Proc. Series II, Bundle 177, 93]. He married Margaret { REVELL, Margaret (mar. TOY) ‹ LBT 03271 › } the daughter of James Revell, surveyor of works, who nominated Toy one of the overseers of his will [P.C.C., 20, Stevenson]. He served the office of Under Warden in the year 1571-2, and died on October 16th, 1577. [W. Barret, History of Bristol, edition 1789, p. 442.]
