A-Z of Entries

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Lancelot Powell ratebooks 8 Batemans Buildings 1778-1781 / there may have been two or more Lancelot (or Launcelot) Powells in London at this time, as birth dates given in the the baptisms of his children by Martha postdated his marriage to Susanna Turner, which didn't specify if he was bachelor or widower, also if there was only one person, he made abrupt career changes, from being a scholar at Westminster to a stationer's apprentice in 1769, and from being a printer in 1781 to being a tailor in 1787 / Harvey Powell bach of St Paul…

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John Pratbernon 27 Poland St ratebooks 1777-9 (note 3 Paddington Green) / Jean Pierre Pratbernon son of Thomas & Jeanne (nee Villars) bapt 31.5.1771 Glasshouse St Huguenot / John Pratbernon = St James 12.3.1770 Susannah Neau / their children Jean & Eliz bapt 1771, Jeanne 1772, Eliz 1775 all at La Patente Soho / John Pratbernon gold & silver worker of Oxford St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / his father Thomas (1712-96) and brother David (will PCC 1811) were also jewellers

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John Prendergast 50 Poland St ratebooks 1774-7 / SunFire 1778 John Prendergast MD & Honora Morgan widow execs to the will of Jeffrey Morgan Poland St / will PCC of Jeffrey Morgan Esq mentioned house in Bentinck St, St Marylebone, wife Honora, son Jeremiah, brother Charles, John Prendergast of Poland St Doctor of Physic, sister Margaret Broderick, brother in law William Burke, James Henry Burke, cousin James Moore dated 19.9.1777 proved 24.11.1777 / Jeffery Morgan bach of St Marylebone = St Bride Fleet St 2.12.…

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London addresses dataset

Jacob Priddy 14 Poland St ratebooks 1784-1797 / Jacob Priddy = Fivehead, Somerset 21.8.1783 Betty Cozens, their children Robert Cozens & John bapt 30.4.1786 Henry bapt 25.12.1787 James bapt 3.7.1791 all at St James / Italian warehouseman, oilman, foreign warehouse many ads & directories / will PCC 1831 Jacob Priddy gent of Stamford Hill, Middlesex

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John Rogers Pride 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1795-1800 / 14.11.1792 "Pride scotchman" Marquis of Granby 33 Castle St Oxford Market meeting place of Div 5 of London Corresponding Society August 1792 (Thale, Selections p 17, 27, 29) / Old Bailey 28.5.1800 murder of Bartolomichi (QV*) witness William Hearne potboy at Kings Arms Poland St / John Rogers Pride victualler Chandos St, St Martins voted Graham 1802 / SunFire 1807 51 Chandos St exec of will PCC 1807 of John Christie cabinet maker / will of Samuel Pride PCC 1808…

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Joseph Prigmore 21 Poland St ratebooks 1788-91 / coroners jury 1790 Joseph Prigmore Poland St cabinet maker / Wakefields directory 1790 cabinet maker / Joseph Prigmore bach = St Marylebone 12.8.1788 Mary Grace Hooks Haylett sp by lic (wits John Skellet, John Low), their son Joseph Robert bapt St James 16.11.1789 / Mary Prigmore bur 7.6.1795 Yarmouth Norfolk / Joseph Prigmore = Yarmouth 7.10.1798 Martha Pratt / 1801 Joseph J Prigmore cabinet maker Yarmouth took appr Wm (Richardson?) 

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William Pullen SunFire 1792 gent 35 Poland St his wife a mantua maker, other occupier Hayward cheesemonger / William Pullen plaisterer of St James bach age 36 = St James 21.10.1787 Mary Manders widow of St James wits Francis & Mary Hayward / SunFire 1819 William Pullen plasterer 18 Marshall St Carnaby Market / will PCC of William Pullen of Marshall St Carnaby Market plasterer proved 19.4.1830 all to Mrs Elizabeth (Rennie ?) of Brownlow St Holborn dated 7.3.1830 / William Pullen of Marshall St age 79 bur 10.4.1830 St James /…

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Andrew Quesnell 41 (42) Poland St ratebooks 1779-1818 / Andrew Quesnell = St James 26.5.1777 Ann dau of Peter Creps (QV*) baker, the previous householder at this address / Middlesex Sessions 18.5.1782 Andrew Quesnell late of St James labourer not guilty of an assault on John Baptist La Couture / 14.12.1787 Andre Quesnel of Poland St baker bail for Edward Lomax & others / Andrew son of Andrew & Catherine Quesnell bapt 2.8.1782 St James / SunFire 1791 John Quesnell gent 12 Charles St Grosvenor Sq, his wife a milliner /…

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Jno Claude Quetin 15 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1774 "gone & broke" / John Cluds Quetin = St Martin i t Fields 20.4.1775 Rose Austen botp by lic wits Francois Quetin, Lawrence (Behr?) / Victoire Rosalie Quetin born 31.7 1776 bapt 21.8.1776 St James Picc'y of Jean Claude & Rose / Nicholas Morel = St Luke Chelsea 17.12.1794 Victoire Rosalie Quetin / Nicholas Morel upholsterer, Marlborough St, St James voted 1818 Romilly & Maxwell

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Peter Raimbach proprietor 38 Poland St Land Tax Redemption 1798 / SunFire 3.4.1798 Peter Raimbach, King St, Soho, also Poland St (glazier) / his son Abraham Raimbach engraver DNB 1776-1843, Peter Raimbach "came when a child to England" "married Martha Butler daughter of a Warwickshire farmer" / John Gabriel s of Peter & Martha Raimbach bapt 17.11.1772 Lambeth / Moses son of Peter Raimbach victualler of King St Soho appr 6.3.1794 to Richard West junior Citizen & Salter of London free 2.7.1801 bur 28.4.1839 from Bloomsbury…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Samuel Raphael ratebooks 59 Poland St 1789-1805 / Samuel Raphael = St Martin in the Fields 12.4.1780 Frances Lusette / Sun Fire 1780 Godfried & Samuel Raphel taylors 4 Crown Court, Hog Lane (Bishopsgate?) / Samuel Raphael taylor Poland St bail for Ann Galerino charged with assault on Sarah Whale / Godfrey Raphael bur 18.2.1818 St James age 79

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

George Reid Esq ratebooks 1788-1792 10 Poland St / called Justice Reid's office in newspapers, his clerk 1788 D Brian. Reid came into conflict with St James parish (see my entry for Ideson, Luke) for not passing fines on to parish poor relief / George Reid Poland St voted 1790 Fox & Hood / Nat Arch HO 42/26/30 list of magistrates 10.7.1793 George Reid in Kings Bench prison / Nat Arch HO 42/26/41 letter 15.7.1793 from George Reid of the Strand to the Home Secretary asking him to ignore the slander against him…

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London addresses dataset

Susanna Reynell 10 Poland St ratebooks 1779-80 / SunFire 1782 Susanna Reynell schoolmistress Portman St, Portman Sq

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Samuel William Reynolds DNB 1773-1835 ratebooks 46 Poland St 1797-1803 renumbered to 47 in 1799

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

George Richards 13 Poland St ratebooks 1777-1786 / coroners jury 1767 Geo Richards Poland St robe maker / George Richards Poland St voted 1780 Lincoln / George Richards buried 17.5.1783 St James / ? George Richards = Westminster 26.7.1752 Jane Wright

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Henry Riches 34 Poland St ratebooks 1784-6 Andrew Riches 1787 / Andrew Riches ratebooks Little Windmill St (east) 1785-6 / Henry Riches ratebooks Brewer St 1787-90 / Henry Riches coal merchant Poland St voted 1784 Fox / SunFire 1785 Henry Riches 34 Poland St dealer in coas & wood his wife a laundress / Henry Riches coal merchant Little Windmill St coroners jury 1785 / Henry Riches chandler Brewer St voted 1790 Hood / Henry s of Henry & Mary Riches born 20.4.1773 bapt 9.5.1773 St Marylebone / Henry s of Henry & Mary…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

6 Poland St ratebooks lease held in 1780s by execs of William Ride, occupied by Mrs Wright till 1789 / Sun Fire 1791 Ann Ride spinster 6 Poland St / ratebooks 1792 Ann Bond

William Ride carpenter of Chappel St voted 1774 Percy & Clinton / Sun Fire 1778 Ann Ride milliner corner of Newport St, St Martins Lane / sale 14.10.1780 at premises of William Ride deceased / Ann Ride milliner of St Anne Soho took appr Mary Baker 1780  Elizabeth Underwood 1782 / Nat Arch C 211/22/R46 Ann Ride lunatic 1786 C12/2145/35…

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Dorothy Riggs 8 Newman St Land Tax 1784-96 / SunFire 1780 Dorothy Rigg spinster Newman St / Sun Fire 1785 Dorothy Rigg spinster 57 Upper Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl / Dorothy Rigg Land Tax 1781-94 Charlotte St, 1785 North St, 1790 18 Upper Cleveland St, 1798 Warren St / (Nat Arch IR 1) Dorothy Rigg mantua maker St Marylebone took appr 1.8.1799 Mary A Bridger for 4 yrs premium £20 / Dorothy Rigg adult bur 8.12.1806 St James Piccy / Thomas Rigg will PCC 1792 of Newman St, St Marylebone, left estates in Hants & Sussex to Dorothy…

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Joseph Riseley 43 (44) Poland St ratebooks 1779

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

George Ritso 1773 paymaster of the interest of Exchequer bills, Tally Court / SunFire 1777 George Ritso at Mr Harris's coal merchant 2 Poland St / 1801 George Ritso £150 pension as servant of late Princess of Wales / 1825 died at Bath age 85 Louisa relict of late George Frederick Ritso (maiden name Grinch, they married 1763)