Trade Cards and Bills.     Notes on the Berry Family Thomas Berry was a patten-maker. Interesting history about the pattenmakers, as one of the London trade guilds, is given at the website of The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers . Baptisms, marriages and burials were found in: London parish registers, London Metropolitan Archives, Ancestry online.   ❖   St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London   Marriages 23 Nov 1704 ‘Thomas Berry, of the parish of St Dunstans in the West, bachelor, and Mary Osborne, of the parish of St Bridgett alias Brides, London, spinster. . . . . Bishops Licence. He is a patten maker by St Dunstans Church’.   Baptisms 1 Dec 1706 Robert Berry, son of Thomas and Mary his wife, a patten maker. [buried St Dunstan-in-the-West, 20 Apr 1707]   ❖   St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London   Baptisms 31 Dec 1707 Robert Berrey, son of Thomas & Mary of Hen and Chicken Court. [buried 14 Apr 1708] 1 Oct 1710 Mary, daughter of Thomas Berry, pattenmaker, and Mary his wife, Hen and Chicken Court. [buried 5 Feb 1710/11] 11 Sep 1711 Mary, daughter of Thomas Berry, pattenmaker, and Mary his wife, was born 30 Aug 1711, Fleet Street. 30 Jan 1712/3 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Mary Berry, Fleet Street. [buried 12 Oct 1713] 11 Apr 1714 Thomas Eustate Hardwick, son of Thomas and Mary Berry, Fleet Street. 18 Sep 1715 John, son of Thomas and Mary Berry, Fleet Street. 14 Jul 1717 Martha, daughter of Thomas and Mary Berry, Hen and Chicken Court in Fleet Street.   Burials 20 Apr 1707 Robert Berry, a child, out of Fleet Street, Lower Ground. 14 Apr 1708 Robert Berrey, Hen & Chicken Court, Lower Ground. 16 Jan 1709/10   Martha Berry, a patten-maker's child, was buried from Hen & Chicken Court in Fleet Street Church Yard. [baptism record not found] 5 Feb 1710/11 Mary Berry, a patten-maker's child, was buried from Hen & Chicken Court in Fleet Street Church Yard. 12 Oct 1713 Elizabeth Berry, a child from Fleet Street in Fleet Street Church Yard. Note: The entries in the parish register of St Dunstan-in-the-West indicate that many infants, such as the Berry children, were baptised at their family home. For example, on the page of baptisms for January 1712/3 some entries state: ‘baptized this day at the font’ or ‘baptized this day in the vestry’. Many other entries record the baptism at the family address such as Bell Yard, Mitre Court, White Alley, Chancery Lane, etc. Copyright © WhistlerHistory 2021.