LANE, George (1771?-1850) — London
Globemaker.
Aged thirty-four, Lane was indicted at the Old Bailey 18 Sep 1805 “for feloniously stealing, on the 15th of July, five brass circles, value 6d. thirteen indexes, value 7s.6d. sixteen spray collars, value 8s.2d. thirteen quadrant-nuts, value 1s. 2d. seven buttons, value 3½d. three spray uprights, value 7s. two nuts for uprights, value 2d. five spray loop screws, value 2d. and three globe-rings, value 10s.10d. the property of Thomas Marriott Bardin” (see BME 2011). Bardin identified the stolen material — “I have no doubt of it, because there are few in the trade, and each in the trade have their own patterns, and the person who makes the patterns is here”. Lane had worked for him for six years and “could earn in six days 3l.9s. His wife was an apprentice to me, and is a most deserving woman; she is in the habit of earning about a guinea a week”. Another Bardin employee, William Gardner, also testified, as did Roger Devey: “I am a brass-founder: I conceive that every bit of work, nearly, that is there was cast at my house; I have looked it over. Q. Has Mr. Bardin a pattern for his work different from other people? A. Yes, there are four persons who make globes, three of whom I cast for, and there is a difference in their patterns except some trifling articles … I am the workman that cast the work; I know they are Mr. Bardin’s”. Bardin “very feelingly recommended the prisoner to mercy, on account of his deserving partner” and Lane was fined just a shilling and discharged. Born about 1771, he was presumably the George Lane who married Eliza (Elizabeth) Sweney at St. Mary Lambeth 17 Oct 1802. He and his wife baptised a son at Christ Church Southwark in 1802. Recorded as a globemaker on the 1841 census, resident with his wife, and again recorded as a globemaker as late as 1843. He was buried at Christ Church Southwark 24 Nov 1850, aged seventy-eight.
Pearl Row, Southwark — 1804
Green Walk, Blackfriars — 1815-1818
38 Green Walk, Blackfriars Road — 1840-1841
5 Green Walk, Blackfriars Road — 1842-1843
Green Walk, Blackfriars Road — 1850
Census 1841. Clifton. OB.