Thomas Stayner

He was born in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields in London in 1665 the son of Thomas Stayner (b.1640), a painter and stainer, and his wife Margery Fisher (b.1643).

[1] He was apprenticed as a mason rather than a stainer - to Michael Todd in 1682 and was declared a Freeman in 1690.

In 1697 he was living at Goodmans Fields in the Whitechapel district of East London.

However, in 1720 the Company records show him as being summoned to explain his behaviour at the Sir John Fryer Lord Mayor of London's dinner, and he was fined 6s 8d for this offence.

Their eldest son, also Thomas Stayner, inherited his house and business.