A-Z of Entries

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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…

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James Maund 29 Poland St ratebooks 1791-2 / James Maund otp = St James 16.4.1765 Jane Edwards of St Vedast Foster la by Abp lic wit John Serjeant / children James Edmund bt 12.5.1765 Jane bapt 5.8.1769 James bapt 19.10.1772 Ann bapt 15.12.1774 all of James & Jane at St James / Mary Jane bapt 24.12.1779 of James & Ann at St James / James Maund Carnaby St coroners jury 1764 grocer 1767 tea dealer Carnaby St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon, SunFire 1779 grocer & tea dealer Carnaby St / see The Fashionable Cypriad (…

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John Maunder 36 Poland St ratebooks 1777 / John Maunder otp = St James 24.11.1776 Mary Herbert of St Marylebone by Archbishops lic wits Francis Nevill, John Elcock / John Maunder of Holles St, St Clement Danes 1809 inventory (Nat Arch PROB 31)

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John Maynard 18 Poland St ratebooks 1773-7 / St James Chronicle 2.12.1784 Mrs Elizabeth Maynard widow of John Maynard upholder of Poland St died Wed (1.12.1784) / will PCC 16.12.1784 Elizabeth Maynard widow of John Maynard upholder dated 19.10.1764 to be buried with late husband at Chiswick, eldest son John Cartwright Maynard, son William, daus Harriet & Elizabeth Isabella, brother & sister William Walker & his wife Mary / Elizabeth Maynard adult bur 15.1.1784 St James / John Maynard bach = St Geo Han…

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Gregory McCannon ratebooks 60 Poland St 1782-3 / Gregory McCannon Westminster coroners jury 1772 / Gregory McCannon Esq bach otp (age 30) = St James 9.11.1777 Sophia Newman sp of Chelsea / Nat Arch PRIS 4/7 p 234 Gregory McCannon committed to Kings Bench prison 30.11.1780 at suit of John Davies for £60 & by John Willoughby Aston, baronet, (a musical baronet and active in horse racing) discharged 8.11.1782 / William Gregory s of Gregory & Sophia McCannon bapt 3.2.1781 St Geo the Marytr, Southwark (note this…

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No 13 Castle St East Land Tax 1784-1799 Jonah McEwen 1800 John Stanner / SunFire 1787, 1794 Jonah McEwen cabinetmaker

Jonah McEwen Land Tax 1780 Wells St, St Marylebone / Jonah s of Jonah & Jannet McEwen bapt 20.2.1785 Wells St Scotch Church / Jonah McEwen took apprs Evan Hopkins 1786 Jno House 1792 (Castle St) / 1793 subscr to Sheraton's cabinetmaker / Jonah McEwen bur 19.5.1815 age 31 Bunhill Fields / London Consistory Court 16.10.1816 admon of Jonah McEwen late of 14 Riding House Lane, St Marylebone, died last…

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No 6 Castle St East Land Tax 1800-1802 Mary Mead / 12 Portman St Marylebone Land Tax 1796-1799 Mary Mead

Mary Mead sp = 10.9.1803 by lic St Marylebone Thomas Godley bach

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John Messenger 2 Newman St Land Tax 1784 / Bailey's Directory 1785 John Messigner & Son cabinet maker 6 Newman St (error?) / John Messenger bur 6.7.1786 Whitefield's Chapel Tott Ct Rd age 37 (error ?) from Marylebone / will PCC 27.7.1786 John Messenger of St Marylebone mentioned wife Lydia, daughter-in-law Ann Little, sister O'Brien, sister Charlwood / Thomas Little = Allhallows London 12.4.1750 Lydia Maxey / John Messenger bach = St Geo H Sq 29.5.1758 Sarah Sheppard sp / John Messenger wid = St Geo H Sq 28.3.1763 Lydia Little…

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SunFire 1798 Clara wife of William Middleton 9 Newman St (other occupier Golding QV*) / William Middleton = St Marylebone 11.2.1782 Clara Louisa Grace / London 1795 Middelton vs Rose (Kings Bench) William Middelton of Stockeld Park Esq against John Rose his groom for criminal conversation with his wife Clara Louisa Middleton / according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree Clara Louisa Grace was born in France in 1763 and died there in 1834 / a divorce was impossible because husband and wife were both of the Roman Catholic faith

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SunFire 1797 Elizabeth Middleditch, widow, 10 Poland St (Jackson, upholder) / Joseph Middleditch grocer of Budge Row will PCC 1788, he married Elizabeth Nanfan 1758 and 2ndly at St James 15.2.1774 Elizabeth Buckeridge by Archbishop's license wits John Middleditch, Kath Ann Williams / her will London Consistory Court 1809 of Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl under £5000, she died August 1809 mentioned her grandchildren Lewis William & Harriet Buckeridge / their father her son Lewis William Buckeridge will PCC 1793 of…

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John Mills 37 Poland St ratebooks 1787-90 Mrs Mills 1791-1800 / John Mills bach otp = St Marylebone 17.7.1770 Ann Nicholson sp otp / perhaps John Mills stationer Brentford SunFire 1781 (bbti.bham.ac.uk) bankrupt 1783 / Margaret bapt 1774 St James, William James bapt 17.6.1774 St Marylebone, Dinah bapt 1.5.1781 St James, Mary bapt 1.11.1782 St James, John bapt 16.5.1790 St Marylebone, all of John & Ann Mills / SunFire 1786 John Mills Cambridge St, Broad St, Carnaby Mkt / will PCC John Mills of Poland St newsman dated 16.11.…

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Sir Thomas Mills witness at the Old Bailey 28.6.1780 said he had a house in Poland St and implied he had lived there six or seven years / Dictionary of Canadian Biography Sir Thomas Mills d.1793 London insolvent / Sir Thomas Mills 1739-1793 = 1.11.1774 at Cranbrook House Essex, seat of Andrew Moffat, Esq  to Elizabeth Moffat 1756-1816, their dau Eliza Finch Mills 1776-1826 / Sir Thomas Mills of Adelphi voted 1780 Rodney & Lincoln / Morning Chronicle 29.3.1774 Sir Thomas Mills appointed governor of New Jersey in place…

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John Molini 26 Poland St ratebooks 1777 // see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans for Signor Molini (fl. 1785-97?) singer, acting manager, composer? and Miss Molini (fl. 1797-1800) actress

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John Moore 59 Poland St (& 60 Poland St "for shop") ratebooks 1773-7 / Elizabeth Rowland 1773 appr to Moore & Shilbeck, St James embroiderer & tambour / John Moore spurmaker St James took appr 1774 John Cooper 1779 Edward Cliffen 1779 William Cheetham, (entry after Cheetham) Mary Moore of St James embroiderer took appr 1779 Mary Frances Gavelle / Society of Arts Miss Moore of Poland St 1772 tambour work Goldfinches 1776 An Indian Rose, A Loury from Pekin, A Louryquette from do (1771 Miss More needlework…

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John Moreland ratebooks 59 Poland St 1784 / John Morland upholsterer Poland St voted Fox 1784 / (John Moreland = St James 20.6.1771 Ann Gray) / John Morland = St John's, Preston, Lancs 16.3.1773 Margaret Hodgson / John Morland upholsterer Princes St, St James voted Fox 1790 / his will PCC 1799 dated 10.1793 John Morland upholder Princes St Soho mentioned wife Margaret, brother in law James Hodgson attorney of Chancery Lane, son John, friend Matthew Consett merchant of New North St