Joshua Jenour, 17151774 (aged 58 years)

Name
Joshua /Jenour/
Given names
Joshua
Surname
Jenour
Birth
Source: IGI
Citation details: C023233 1698 - 1716 0374999
Christening
Death of a paternal grandmother
Burial of a paternal grandmother
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Birth of a sister
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Christening of a sister
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Birth of a brother
Christening of a brother
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Death of a brother
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Birth of a brother
Christening of a brother
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Death of a sister
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British King
Death of a father
Burial of a father
Death of a paternal grandfather
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Robert Walpole
from 3 April 1721 to 16 February 1742
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Spencer Compton
from 16 February 1742 to 27 August 1743
Marriage
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Death of a mother
Birth of a daughter
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Citation details: Batch C151031
Citation details: London: Temple Church - Register of Baptisms 1629-1853 & Marriages 1628-1760 1754. R, ., 19 Jan 1754 Ann, d. of Joshua & Ann Jenour, of Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, born 27 Dec
Christening of a daughter
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
Henry Pelham
from 27 August 1743 to 16 March 1754
Birth of a son
Citation details: London: Temple Church - Register of Baptisms 1629-1853 & Marriages 1628-1760, 23 Aug 1755 Joshua, s. of Joshua & Ann Jenour, of Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, born 31 Jul 1755. R, .
Christening of a son
Christening of a son
Citation details: London: Temple Church - Register of Baptisms 1629-1853 & Marriages 1628-1760, 23 Aug 1755 Joshua, s. of Joshua & Ann Jenour, of Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, born 31 Jul 1755. R, .
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Thomas Pelham-Holles
from 16 March 1754 to 16 November 1756
Prime Minister of Great Britain
William Cavendish
from 16 November 1756 to 29 June 1757
Birth of a daughter
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Christening of a daughter
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Birth of a son
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Christening of a son
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Birth of a daughter
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Christening of a daughter
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British King
Birth of a daughter
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Christening of a daughter
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
Thomas Pelham-Holles
from 29 June 1757 to 26 May 1762
Prime Minister of Great Britain
John Stuart
from 26 May 1762 to 26 May 1762
Birth of a daughter
Prime Minister of Great Britain
George Grenville
from 26 May 1762 to 13 July 1765
Birth of a daughter
Christening of a daughter
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Citation details: C04861, 1
Death of a wife
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Charles Watson-Wentworth
from 13 July 1765 to 30 July 1766
Marriage
British King
George III
from 25 October 1760 to 29 January 1820
Prime Minister of Great Britain
William Pitt
from 30 July 1766 to 14 October 1768
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Augustus FitzRoy
from 14 October 1768 to 28 January 1770
Death of a daughter
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Frederick North
from 28 January 1770 to 27 March 1782
Death
5 July 1774 (aged 58 years)
Citation details: A Biographical Database of Members of the London Book Trade 1701-1800
Burial
Citation details: Greater London Burial Index
Family with parents
father
16781737
Birth: about December 1678 32
Death: 1737
mother
Marriage Marriage1706St Sepulchre, Holborn, London
2 years
elder brother
17071707
Birth: 1707 28 25 Middlesex, England
Death: 17 September 1707London
2 years
elder sister
17081711
Birth: 1708 29 26 Middlesex, England
Death: 9 January 1711London
2 years
elder sister
17091790
Birth: 1709 30 27 Middlesex, England
Death: about 1790Hampstead
2 years
elder brother
17111785
Birth: 20 January 1711 32 29 Middlesex, England
Death: 1785Hampstead, London
2 years
elder sister
17131714
Birth: 24 January 1713 34 31 Middlesex, England
Death: 31 December 1714
3 years
himself
17151774
Birth: 4 December 1715 37 33 Middlesex, England
Death: 5 July 1774
23 months
younger sister
17171720
Birth: 17 October 1717 38 35
Death: 16 March 1720
21 months
younger brother
17191719
Birth: 24 June 1719 40 37
Death: 12 July 1719
8 months
younger brother
17201803
Birth: 23 February 1720 41 38
Death: February 1803Hampstead, London
Family with Ann Harding
himself
17151774
Birth: 4 December 1715 37 33 Middlesex, England
Death: 5 July 1774
wife
17231766
Birth: 1723 23 Edgware, London
Death: 14 February 1766
Marriage Marriage17 April 1750Saint Marylebone, London, England
4 years
daughter
1753
Birth: 27 December 1753 38 30 London
Death:
19 months
son
17551853
Birth: 31 July 1755 39 32 Fleet Street, London, England
Death: 23 January 185335 Darnley Avenue, Gravesend
2 years
daughter
17571780
Birth: 27 December 1757 42 34 London
Death: about 1780
16 months
son
1759
Birth: 18 April 1759 43 36 London
Death:
17 months
daughter
17601774
Birth: 15 September 1760 44 37 London
Death: before 1774
18 months
daughter
1762
Birth: 20 March 1762 46 39 London
Death:
22 months
daughter
3 years
daughter
1765
Birth: September 1765 49 42 London
Death:
Family with Eleanor
himself
17151774
Birth: 4 December 1715 37 33 Middlesex, England
Death: 5 July 1774
wife
Marriage Marriage2 July 1772St Martin’s Ludgate
Birth
Source: IGI
Citation details: C023233 1698 - 1716 0374999
Marriage
Source: IGI
Citation details: Batch 7005016, Batch M06085, 1
Death
Citation details: A Biographical Database of Members of the London Book Trade 1701-1800
Burial
Citation details: Greater London Burial Index
Shared note

Transcription of the parish record of his baptism gives his name as Jenoar. I haven’t seen the original record entry. Parents Mathew and Mary Jenoar. Subsequently all documents including those signed by Joshua give his name as Jenour. Family members are consistent in this spelling but others often include double ‘n’, Jennour.

With his older brother Matthew was proprietor of the London Daily Advertiser. He died before his brother, but his sons also Matthew and Joshua inherited the majority of the interest in the newspaper.

Admission papers for freedom of the city were lodged and signed (but not dated) by Matthew for his son Joshua. Admission is on basis of father’s status as stationer with freedon of city (and Joshua’s legitimacy as his father’s son). (Addmisions records for Nov 1736 to April 1737. Joshua would have been 21 in 1736). The admission paper was also signed by his brother Matthew how had been admitted a few years ealrier when he was 21.

Joshua signed a marriage allegation on 16th April 1750, the day before his marriage to Ann. He gave his age as 34 years and his parish as St Sepulchre and her age as 25 years and her parish as St Martin in the Fields.

A poll/electoral register of 1750 lists both Matthew and Joshua Jenour as printers, opposite St Dunstan’s church, Fleet Street.

A Joshua Jenour, widower (of the parish) married an Eleanor Lawrence, widow (of St Martin’s Ludgate) on 2nd July 1772 at St Dunstan in the West [Parish record image via Ancestry.co.uk]. In 1803 Eleanor is listed in trade directories as a stationer. Is this the same Joshua remarrying after the death of Ann or could it be a cousin? [The Bath Chronicle, 9th July 1772 reports the marriage of Matthew Jenour to Mrs Eleanor Lawrence, but the parish record must be the accurate account and the signature in the record clearly reads Joshua Jenour.]

In his will made and signed 3 June 1774 he mentions a late wife and a current wife but doesn’t name either of them. He leaves most of his estate equally between his sons Matthew and Joshua, but does make bequests to his daughters and to his current wife. He appears to appoint his brothers Matthew and Thomas (mainly mentioning his brother Mathew whom I think he asks to sell properties to invest for income for the support of his children - writing is difficult to read so this may not be correct) as trustees over parts of his estate, the copyhold houses and other premises, including at Stanmore in Middlesex, and instructs them to divide the benefits equally between his children. He lists his daugthers Ann, Mary, Charlotte, Sidney and Jane (Presumably Elizabeth has died before he made his will).

A selection of Newspapers put the date of Joshua’s death as July 1774, not December as in the trade biography. One London newspaper from Wednesday 6th July 1774: “Yesterday morning, after three weeks illness aged 58, at his house in Fleet Street, Mr Joshua Jenour, Printer of the Daily Advertiser.”

The greater London Burial index records that Joshua Jenour of St Dunstan, London was interred in the Minister’s Vault at Little Stanmore, Middlesex on 10th July 1774. This appears to be in line with his wishes expressed in his will to be burried in the vault with his first wife. The notes on the burial index say: “affidavit made; buried in the minister's vault”

A Biographical Database of Members of the London Book Trade 1701-1800 gives Joshua’s death as 22nd December 1774 but all other evidence suggests that this is wrong.

Shared note

Oxford Chapel, Vere Street also recorded as place of marriage