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Harris's List 1789 Miss M-k-y at Mrs Walpole's 1 Poland St

possibles: Betty Mackay bur 16.12.1789 St James / Catherine Mackay child bur 15.2.1798 St James

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Ratebooks 4 Poland St 1780 Agnes Murray 1781-4 Mrs Mackie. See Murray, Edward Augustus. Agnes Mackie was his housekeeper and a spinster but apparently went by his surname in 1780. Her sister Mary wife of William Benson had four children to whom, along with Agnes Mackie, Edward Augustus Murray left his property. Their baptisms were Charles Benson 17.8.1785 St Saviour Denmark Park / William Benson bach = St Marylebone 27.10.1789 Mary Mackay sp botp / James s of William and Mary Benson bapt St Anne Soho 3.12.1789 /…

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William Mackintosh 38 Poland St ratebooks 1783-4 / some possibles in worknotes below / a William McTosh printer of Poland St coroners jury 1792

AMENDMENTS TO OXFORD DNB: Thomas Macklin (1752/3-1800) suggest omit "may have been the son of 'the Reverend Garrard Macklin of the Kingdom of Ireland' mentioned in the will of Thomas Wilson, prebendary of Westminster, from whom Thomas Macklin inherited considerable property in 1784."  Thomas Macklin who inherited half of Thomas Wilson's estates in the Wirral was a different person who changed his name (as requested by the will) to Thomas Wilson, his will was PCC 1798 Thomas Wilson of Derby. His brother was Gerard (or Jared) Macklin born Chester 1728 see Trinity College Dublin admissions.…

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Thomas Maggi Italian warehouseman 32 Poland St SunFire 1782 / the ratepayer at this time was a grocer William Tuff (QV*) / there was a print by Bartolozzi after Biagio Rebecca of Natalis Thomas Maggi, published 20.6.1788, first mentioned in Manson's catalogue of 1788 (as scarce), in Bromley (1793) this Maggi was listed as a musician died London 1787, on the print his birth date was given as 9.3.1735 at Forijulii (modern Friuli, Italy), but I can find no other source on his life. The print showed him holding a book, the name…

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According to British History Online Thomas Malton lived at 58 Poland St from 1772 to 1780, This accords with an ad giving his address as third house on left in Poland St from Broad St, as this was probably before nos 61 & 62 Poland St were built / in the Royal Academy exhibitions his address was given as 3 Poland St from 1774 to 1777 and 56 Poland St in 1779 / Thomas Malton mathematician of Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Mountmorris / Sun Fire 1783 Thomas Malton engraver Conduit St, Hanover Sq / an ad of 1778…

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Manassier 16 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1783-4 / Alexander Mannassier watchmaker Batemans Buildings voted 1784 Hood & Wray, Parker's General Advertiser 28.7.1784 Manessier's vote queried by Fox / Alex Manassier ratebooks Berwick St, St James 1785-6 / Alexander of Elisha & Mary Manessier bapt 12.5.1734 St Martin i t Fields / Elisha Manessier engraver & chaser St Martin i t Fields took apprs 1731, 1737, bur Whitechapel 1780 age 80 / Elisha of Elisha & Mary Manessier bapt 1730 St Martin i t Fields, oboe player Doane's…

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John Mansfield 38 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1822 / John Mansfield painter & glazier Poland St voted 1802 Fox 1818 Romilly & Maxwell / SunFire 1804, 1814 John Mansfield 38 Poland St glazier and dealer in candles & rabbits / SunFire 1804 James Crew gent 38 Poland St other occupier glazier / John Mansfield bur 24.1.1837 St James age 81 from workhouse / Maria Elizabeth Ann bapt 20.2.1780 & Mary Ann bapt 6.7.1784 St James daus of John & Mary Mansfield / Edwin son of John & Isabella Mansfield compositor of…

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William Markham 4 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1783 / Morning Herald 27.3.1784 William Markham has moved to 4 Batemans Buildings / General Advertiser 6.12.1785 / World 20.10.1787 and 16 more ads in World up to 4.11.1790 all for sale of commissions &c

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True Briton 5.7.1794 Marchioness de Marnesia, emigrant and painter died at her lodgings in Poland St / Morning Post 17.12.1793 Mary Robinson's Monody to the Memory of the Queen of France published embellished with a painting of (Marie Antoinette) taken shortly before her death by the Marchioness de Marnesia engraved by Legoux (QV*) (The original miniature was sold at Bonhams for £696 in 2005, her painting of a castle was sold at Christie's 1991 for £3300). Her lodgings may well have been at 52 Poland St where Lewis…

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ratebooks 1780-7 Robert Marris 10 Poland St // SunFire 1779 Robert Marris gent corner of Portland Street, Poland Street / 1786 Margaret St, Cavendish Sq / 1805 22 High St Marybone / 1823 13 Manor Pl Kings Rd Chelsea // Free Society 1770 exhib from Mr Devis', Gt Queen St, Lincolns Inn Fields / 1774 Society of Artists (Robert Morris) exhib from 19 Glanville St, Rathbone Pl / Royal Academy 1780-4 exhib landscapes from 10 Poland St // said to have married a niece or daughter of the brothers Arthur and Thomas Anthony…

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James Marsh ratebooks 1786 4 Poland St 1787 John Marsh / Francis Marsh gent of Poland St 1785 action against him for debt of £420 by Elizabeth Mills, Gt Titchfield St, spinster

James s of James & Amey Marsh bt St James 25.12.1776 / James Henry s of James & Rebecca Marsh bt St James 27.3.1796

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John marten 33 Poland st ratebooks 1791-1800 poor 4 children / John Martin = St James 16.8.1795 Mary Ann Sharp botp banns wits John Owen, Thos Cross / John Marten his mark = St Anne Soho 4.8.1786 Helen Stuart her mark botp banns wit John Mendock / John son of John Martin & Mary Smith bapt St James 1.6.1788 / coroners jury 11.2.1793 John Martin perfumer Poland St / will PCC 1806 of Edward Osborne coal merchant of 34 Poland St dated 11.1.1806 mentioned John Martin hairdresser of Poland St

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Morning Post 18.5.1778 leases of Joseph Martin deceased for sale, two properties on Clapham Common, and a ground rent of twelve houses in Poland St, Oxford St and Harris's Court. This was probably a square of land on the west corner of Poland St & Oxford St including 34 to 37 Poland St / the will PCC 1765 of Thomas Martin of Clapham left two leasehold houses in Clapham to his cousin Anna Hopkins spinster and after her death (her will PCC 1768) to his nephew Joseph Martin (DNB 1726-1776). His will PCC 1776 of St…

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John Martin ratebooks 51 Poland St 1782-4 / SunFire 1781 Joseph Francis Martin Poland St gent his wife a mantua maker / 15.9.1784 Magdalen Martin witness at Old Bailey husband Joseph Francis Martin, married 12 years, he lived in Poland St, but was in the country the last 2 months or better / Joseph Martin = St James 23.4.1769 Magdalen Polet / children bapt St James of Joseph Francis & Magdalen Martin, Thomas 30.6.1777, Frances Charlotte Wilhelmina 10.11.1779 Thomas William Catherinus 29.9.1781

e-mail to Richard Angus Whitehead, assistant professor at National Institute of Education, Singapore

hello, I am Edward Pope, an independent historian, see my website edpopehistory.co.uk

I refer to your article "Mark and Eleanor Martin, the Blakes' French Fellow Inhabitants at 17 South Molton Street, 1805-1821" which I read online at Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, volume 43 issue 3, page 84

When you wrote this you had presumably not seen the will proved Canterbury 31.8.1831 of Marc Joseph Martin of No 17 South Molton Street, which makes it clear that the Mark…

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Mark Martin 41 (or 42) Poland St ratebooks 1792-3 Le Grange & Martin 1793 / Mark Martin ratebooks South Molton St, St Geo Han Sq from 1795 / Sophy Hellen bapt 13.6.1802 & Elizabeth Sarah bapt 14.4.1805 St Geo Han Sq of Mark & Mary Martin / SunFire 1810 Mark Martin staymaker 17 Southmolton St / Marc Joseph Martin age 73 from South Molton St bur St Geo Han Sq 1831 / will PCC 1831 Marc Joseph Martin St Geo Han Sq / Morning Post 21.12.1833 ad for claims on Marc Joseph Martin deceased stay and corset maker. I could find…

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Thomas Martin Land Tax 3 Newman St 1784 / Thomas Martin Land Tax 4 Newman St 1791-97 / Thomas Martin attorney of Marylebone took appr 1776 Abraham Holden Turner /  Thomas Martin attorney 3 Newman St 1782 Law List / Middlesex Sessions (London Lives) Mr Martin solicitor for St Marylebone parish 3 Newman St 1784-88 3 Newman St 1789-98 / SunFire 1790 Thomas Martin gent 4 Newman St / Boyle's 1792 Martin 4 Newman St 1794 Martin & Whishaw attorneys 4 Newman St 1798 Thomas Martin 4 Newman St / Thomas Martin & Hugh Whishaw…

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James Massey ratebooks 5 Batemans Bldgs 1774 / SunFire 1780 James Massey tailor Hollis St Cavendish Sq / Land Tax 1780-84 James Massey 8 Holles St / Old Bailey 1.7.1795 James Massey rented a house in - St, Cavendish Sq / will PCC 1806 James Massey of St Marylebone gent (seen will - of Queen Charlotte Row probably different person) / there was also a grocer at Knightsbridge, a butcher in Aldgate High St and a baker in St Martins Lane, all called James Massey c. 1784

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Elizabeth Masters 55 Poland St ratebooks 1793-4 / SunFire 17.3.1792 Elizabeth Louisa Masters spinster 55 Poland St / SunFire 1790, 1791 Elizabeth Louisa Masters 6 China St, Gower St / Elizabeth Louisa Masters ratebooks Grosvenor St, St Geo Han Sq 1799-1806 / The Fashionable Cypriad (1798) biographies of courtesans (Cyprus was island sacred to Venus) had chapter on Louisa Masters, said to have been born Sarah Marsden (perhaps bapt 7.12.1765 of William & Sarah Covent Garden or 2.12.1759 of John & Elizabeth St…