Checking the National Archives (A2a) SELVEY
Date: Sept 19 1790
Report of Charles BRAGGE on 1 collection petition (13 people, from Dudley in Worcestershire and countersigned by Mr BROOKER, Minister of St Edmunds) and 3 individual petitions/letters (George GILBERT senior, the prisoners father; Admiral Hugh PIGOT and Isaac HAWKINS BROWN) on behalf of George GILBERT, convicted at the 'late' Staffordshire Assizes, for stealing a silver watch, property of Thomas SELVEY, his employer, Samuel WHITE, a carpenter at Wolverhampton and William DEVEY , a watchmaker at Dudley. etc.etc.
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Google Books, Staffordshire, General & Commercial Directory 1818
SNUFF MAKERS
SELVEY Thos. 59 Canal Street