Ralph Hore

Abt 1612 -

• Name	Ralph Hore
  Born	Abt 1612	Rushford (aka Risford), Devon (aka Devonshire), England of?
  Gender	Male
  Died	Chagford, Devon (aka Devonshire), England of?
  Person ID	I5803	A01 England 1600 One-Name Study
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2016

  
  

  Father	William Hore,   b. Abt 1579, Rushford (aka Risford), Devon (aka Devonshire), England of? ,   d. Spreyton (aka Sprayton), Devon (aka Devonshire), England of?
  Mother	Katherine Nott,   b. Abt 1579, Lapford, Devon (aka Devonshire), England of? ,   d. Spreyton (aka Sprayton), Devon (aka Devonshire), England of?
  Married	1598	Spreyton (aka Sprayton), Devon (aka Devonshire), England
  Family ID	F219	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Names - Latin to English: http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/parishes/parishes.html http://books.google.com/books?id=hDs5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=%22golden+bottle%22+%22james+hore%22+OR+%22james+hoore%22+OR+%22james+hoare%22+OR+%22james+hare%22&source=bl&ots=mHAM6Aid6p&sig=MGcZsrbXtpPISxKkdNmxxAoyUQI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UaJjVJLtJIGnNrqugJgF&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22golden%20bottle%22%20%22james%20hore%22%20OR%20%22james%20hoore%22%20OR%20%22james%20hoare%22%20OR%20%22james%20hare%22&f=false The Origin of the Leather Bottle The Banking house of Hoare and Company oocupies the site of several buildings 34 to 39 including the famous old Mitre tavern of Dr Johnson's time From a very scarce volume of family history compiled by the well known antiquary Sir Richard Colt Hoare it appears that there was a William Hore of Risbford Devon temp Richard the Second from whom says our author I am inclined to think that our family came originally Ralph the Sixth son of William Hore of Rishford was in 1654 a citizen and cooper of London at St Botolph's and in 1677 his son James was keeping running cash as a goldsmith at the Golden Bottle Cheapside James Hore was living there in 1687 and died at Edmonton in 1694 James Hore of Cheapside must have joined Richard Hoare or Hoar of Fleet Street before 1693 for our authority says there is an entry in the books of the Fleet Street house that year of a debt of 2,200 Z due by Richard to my brother Hoare which as he had no brother must have meant brother partner Again the removal of the business from the Golden Bottle in Cheapside to the Golden Bottle in Fleet Street must have taken place between August 1687 and November 1692 As to the old sign still the gilt bottle over the fanlight of the entrance to the bank Sir Richard Colt Hoare considers it to have been a barrel a sign adopted probably by James Hoar of Cheapside from the circumstances of his father Ralph being a citizen and cooper of the City of London The popular version was that it represented the leathern bottle carried by the founder of the firm when he came to London to seek his fortune The leathern bottle for carrying of ale nut brown is mentioned as used by haymakers in 1 682 At Northfleet and Cobham in Kent are two small roadside taverns each known as the Leather Bottle and both identified with the memory of Charles Dickens.