England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages
| Surname: | Desmer |
| Forename: | Artisan |
| Gender: | Male |
| Place of Residence: | Bildeston, Cosford hundred, Suffolk |
| Place of Origin: | (Italy) |
| Occupation(s): | servant to John Stansby, clothmaker |
| Taxation Status: | non-householder |
| Original Document: | E 179/180/111, rot. 4 (tax assessment, 6 August 1483) |
| Notes: | Part of a group of 11 clothmakers working for John Stansby in Bildeston. Document states they were all born in Italy, but most of the names sound Dutch. |
| Biographical Notes: | See Nicholas Amor, 'Merchant Adventurer or Jack of All Trades: the Suffolk Clothier in the 1460s', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History, 40 (2004), pp. 426-427. |
| Relationships: | No Relationships |