Abraham Bay

My 5th Great Grandfather, 1752 - abt.1822 

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Abraham Bay was born in 1752 to Lewis and Ann Clechan. He was baptized on 15 June 1752 at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch. The family residence was Webb's Square, Shoreditch.  

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In 1775 he married Elizabeth Coxon at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.  Shoreditch borders the Bethnal Green and Spitalfields areas of London. 

Abraham was a silk weaver.  Many Huguenot weavers lived and worked in Spitalfields and Bethnal Green.