Richard Harman was a skinner, and mayor of Norwich who lived on Princes Street
1547 Matthew Harman, son of Richard Harman I, weaver, and Margaret, marries Leticia Hothe in St Stephens
1556 Edmund Harman, son of Richard Harman I and Margaret, freeman and worsted weaver, becomes a freeman of Norwich – also a worsted weaver
1557 Richard Harman I, worsted weaver, dies? Has property in St Stephens which bequeaths to wife Margaret. Mentions Edmund and Matthew and a daughter in his will.
1559 Matthew Harman, worsted weaver, becomes freeman of Norwich, without apprenticeship
1568-1570 landgable. Matthew Harman (deleted) now Edmond Bradye had a tenement next to the property of the late Richard Harman in St Stephen, the east side of Nedham Street. Matthew Harman also owned a tenement formerly of Richard Sturmyn and another formerly of Thomas Brigges, also in Nedham Street. John Harman (deleted) owned a tenement also on Nedham Street.
1570 Matthew Harman, son of Edmund Harman born, baptised at St Stephen’s
1591 Richard Harman, son of Edmund Harman, a worsted weaver, is apprenticed to Thomas Harman, skinner for 7 years
1598 Richard Harman marries Zelochell Bately at St George Tombland
1609 Thomas Harman (1580-1627) marries Anne Gray at St Mary in the Marsh (which was pulled down in 1564, so parishioners used chapel in Cathedral)
1618 Lawrence Harman is apprenticed to his father as a skinner
1620 Robert Halle, of Kiston, Hunts, cook, son and heir of Robert Halle of Norwich, on 19th June sold to Richard Harman (1574-1646, brother of Thomas) of Norwich, skynner, a messuage [in St George Tombland] whereof John Murrell of Norwich, taylor, and Edony his wife, late wife of Robert Brecles, tailor, dec., are seized, between Charles Powle, dec., W(est)., Clarke E(ast)., a tenement now of William Browne;, alderman, N(orth)., the highway S(outh). Possibly what is now 20? or 22 Princes Street?
1622 Richard Harman, son of Edi (Edmund) Harman (deceased) became a freeman of Norwich as a skinner.
1624 Mary Leggett (daughter of Francis Clarke) sells 22 or 24 -26 Princes Street to Thomas Harman, skinner, and his wife Anne. The two tenements are to the east of Richard Harman’s tenement, which used to belong to William Styward, then Robert Brecles, then John Clarke. To the east is the cemetery of St George Tombland and to the north is land formerly belonging to William Styward, then William Pyckering (barber) and now Richard Brice, with the highway to the south. Richard Harman is also a skinner and brother of Thomas.
1626 Richard Harman is sheriff of Norwich, living in 3 Princes Street, St Andrews
1627 Thomas Harman dies, skinner of the Close. Buried at St Mary in the Marsh. Wife Anne is left his messuage in Tombland and in St James.
1629 John Harman, son of Thomas Harman, skinner, becomes a freeman of Norwich – as a worsted weaver
1606-1626 landgable. Richard Harman and Anne Harman, widow, own tenements (probably 22-26) which used to belong to William Styward, adjoining the property which used to belong to the dean of Chappell of Field (Miles Spencer), with Princes Inn on the West and the Churchyard of St George Tombland on the east and the highway south.
1630 John Davy, son of John, late of Eye, Suffook is apprenticed to Anne Harman of Norwich, widow, skinner, for 7 years
1631 City Assembly ordered that pesthouses be built on the property of Alderman Richard Harman during outbreak of plague
1633 Robert Harman, son of Richard Harman, alderman, is apprenticed to him as a merchant
1633 Daniel Bately apprenticed to Richard Harman, alderman as a hosier
1636 Richard Harman declines to take sides in the Norwich puritans’ petition to the King
1638 Zelote, wife of Richard Harman dies, buried in St George Tombland
1638 William Russells, son of George Russells of St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, husbandsman, apprenticed to Ann Harman of Norwich, widow, skinner, for nine years.
1639 Richard Harman, skinner, is mayor
1639 Robert Goose is apprenticed to Richard Harman, alderman, as a hosier
1640 Richard Harman serves as MP in the Long Parliament until his death
1643 Richard Harman refuses to contribute to a voluntary collection for the parliamentary army
1645 letter from Richard Harman to John Tooley (Puritan and mayor) making payment of £187 noting that “the citty of Norwich is yet in the sequestration business”
1646 Richard Harman dies – buried at St Andrews. His sister in law Anne nee Gray also dies.
1647 Thomas and Anne Harman’s second daughter Anne and her husband John Linsey, a worsted weaver, sell part of their messuage in Tombland to John Tooley and Thomas Balliston who then sell in on as the mediety (middle part) of a messuage in Tombland to Andrew Boardman, skinner, married to Grace, the older daughter of Thomas and Anne Harman
1654 Andrew Boardman dies, leaving his wife Grace (nee Harman) as executrix of his will and inheritor of his St George Tombland property. Grace then marries a widower, woolcomber Francis Aylmer, who has a son Philip.
1654 James Scarfe of Norwich, baker, and Mary his wife, late daughter of Richard Harman of Norwich, skynner, dec., on 24th May, 1654, granted to Thomas Baleston and Thomas Turner of Norwich, gentlemen, a messuage late of Richard Harman, before of Robert Hall, and previously of Roger Hall, between property of Charles Powell W., — Clarke E., William Browne;, Esq., dec., N.; common street S.
1665. Robert Scarfe, woolcomber, and Lydia his wife, on 20th Dec., 1665, sold to William Tuke; of Norwich, worsted weaver, tenement sometime of Robert Hall, afterward of Richard Harman, late of James Scarfe and Mary Scarfe (nee Harman), between messuages of Charles Cowell W., – Clarke E., William Brown, Esq., dec. N., King’s highway S.
1672 Grace Boardman Aylmer nee Harman dies.
1686 Francis Aylmer dies, leaves property to Philip Aylmer. Buried at St George Tombland – memorial to Francis and Philip in church.
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