A-Z of Entries

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 & 11 Berners St in London Addresses dataset

No 2 Castle St East Land Tax 1801 Shrimton / No 62 Berners St Land Tax  from 1794 William Shrimpton Esq (62 Berners St was on NE corner of Castle St East)

William Shrimpton SunFire 1782 baker Oxford Street / voted 1784 Hood & Wray / Gazetteer 16.10.1788 WS of 1, Wardour St baker fined £10 for mixing alum in his flour / voted 1790 Fox / 1802 WS of 62 Berners St baker victim of theft oldbaileyonline / will PCC 16.5.1803 dated 24.3.1803 William Shrimpton of Berners St all to wife Eleanor sons…

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

Richard Simison 7 Poland St ratebooks 1793-7 / attorney Kings Bench & solicitor Chancery articled 1787 to Thomas Borne / Richard Simison bach otp = St Margaret Westminster 6.2.1791 Hannah Atkinson sp of Lambeth by lic wits Arthur Goodwin, B Goodwin, James Burford / Ann d of Richard & Hannah Simison bapt 12.1.1792 St James, Mary bapt 13.1.1793, Hannah bapt 27.5.1795, Richard bapt 24.11.1796, Margaret bapt 29.5.1798 / Mr Simison 7 Poland St agent for Yorkshire school ad in World 10.8.1793 / Oracle 28.2.1795…

Simmons 27.10.1790 at Holcroft's / 8.12.1790 again / Dr Simmons 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's / 23.1.1798 Simmons there / 20.3.1798 again / 13.5.1800 dr Simmons adv at Mauman's / 17.5.1800 dr Simmons at Milton Gallery dinner / 17.2.1801 Simmons at Joseph Johnson's / 27.1.1802 3 Simmons's there / 18.6.1813 Lackingtons & Simmons's / 27.12.1823 adv Simmons of Paddington at J Taylor's

Both times at Holcroft's in 1790 with Fenwick, the second time with Bond also, no suggestion at present who this was. The four times at Joseph Johnson's and all Dr Simmons entries were probably Dr…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Oracle 24.5.1791 "DANCING M. Simonet 28 Poland St father of the Miss Simonets... continues private teaching and attends boarding schools" / Doane's 1794 Louis Simonet dancing master & violinist at Opera / see Highfill Burnim & Langhans for him, his wife Adelaide and three daughters Rosine, Leonora & Theresa / SunFire 1786 Louis Simonet dancing master Mount Row Lambeth / SunFire 1798 Louis Simonet 7 Duferes Pl, Broad St dancing master /  Holdens directory 1805 dancing master 29 Lower Titchfield St & SunFire 1818…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Singer 28 Poland St ratebooks 1774-86 / Thomas Singer = St James 1.6.1770 Elizabeth Weller botp banns wit Atwood Martin / Daily Advertiser 4.11.1774 Wanted several French Trimming Weavers and hand workers, Thomas Singer's 7 Poland St, & 1st floor to let unfurnished / Daily Advertiser 29.4.1777 ad for lease of No 7 on east side of Poland St occ. Thomas Singer rent £38 p.a. ground rent £26.5s p.a./ Daily Advertiser 8.5.1778 lease of 28 Poland St for sale rent £38 p.a. ground rent £26.5s p.a. / Thomas Singer feather…

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

Edmund Smith linen draper SunFire 1777 corner of Portland Street in Poland Street (could be 9 or 10 Poland St) / Edmund Smith of St James his apprentice Joseph Butler Hollier acquitted Old Bailey 8.9.1773 of stealing 6 yds of linen &c on 10.3.1773  / 1774 Edmund Smith of Marlborough St linen draper took appr Thomas Shipley / Edmund William son of Edmund & Susanna Smith bapt St James 1778 / Edmund Smith linen draper Carnaby Market coroners jury 1779 / Edmund Smith buried 13.4.1783 St James / possible…

30.9.1798 call on mrs Foulkes adv Smiths. see Foulkes, Philippa.  In the Foulkes' divorce proceedings of 1802 John  Raphael Smith (DNB 1751-1812) testified that he had known the Foulkes' for 10 or 11 years and had been very intimate with them in the last 6 years, that Mr & Mrs Foulkes had nearly parted in 1798 and that Smith and his wife had interfered to settle disputes, usually at Mrs Foulkes' entreaty

J R Smith's family were clearly involved at 7 meals, reciprocal between Smiths, Nicholsons, Foulkes, Godwins, Holcrofts and Heywoods / at Nicholsons on 19.7.1802 where the name …

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Smith 22 Poland St ratebooks 1788-1800 / SunFire 1792 Thomas Smith 22 Poland St tailor / there were tailors called Thomas Smith SunFire Old St 1780 Gracechurch St 1780, voting in Strand 1774 in St Martins La 1784 / those in St James parish were Swallow St voted Mountmorres 1774, Fox & Rodney 1780, King St voted Graham 1802, Cross St voted Hood & Paull 1806 / will PCC of Thomas Smith tailor of 3 Lascelles Pl, Broad St, St Giles dated 1.2.1820 mentioned copyholds in Leicestershire, proved 24.3.1821 by widow Ann

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

Edward Snape ratebooks 60 Poland St 1789-92 / Edward Snape = St Geo Bloomsbury 19.10.1767 Peggy Fauntleroy Bowyer by banns / Old Bailey 1769 Edward Snape horse doctor Grosvenor Mews robbed on way home from Barnet races / Edward Snape ratebooks Sherrard St, St James 1784, listed in directories there 1785, 1790 horse dispensary / Arabella Bowyer d of Edward & Peggy Snape bapt 1786 Hammersmith / ad 1788 Wiiliam Risden assistant to Edward Snape farrier to Their Majesties nr Pantheon "cattle powders infallible" /…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

James Spenceley 19 Poland St ratebooks 1796 / James Spencely = St James 13.3.1798 Sarah Collins dau of William & Anna Collins botp by banns (wits Jno Lyell, Margaret Atkinson) their son James born 1801 was oil and colourman of 24 Goodge St (SunFire 1830) / a James Spencely on Middlesex coroners jury Mx Hosp 1799 / a James Spenceley was buried 1827 St Martin i t F age 68

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset

No 5 Castle St East Land Tax 1784 Charles Spragg / SunFire 1781 Charles Spragg gent, 5 Castle St, Newman St

The only Charles Spragg I found was a comedian (i.e. actor) who fathered an illegitimate child in Manchester, date not given but between 1773 and 1794. (Thomas Battye's Red Basil Book). Not in Highfill, Burnim & Langhans Dictionary of Actors etc.

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London addresses dataset

William Spratt 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1789-92 / SunFire 1788 William Spratt innholder the Haunch of Venison nr Maidstone, Kent / William Spratt = St James 29.12.1778 Isabella Strahan botp by banns / William son of William Spratt & Sarah bapt St James 5.4.1789 / William Spratt adult bur 15.9.1791 St Marylebone / Sarah Spratt adult bur St James 2.3.1788 & 4.8.1805

see Poland Street 1 to 8 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

William Stacey 60 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1802 / William Stacey Law List 60 Poland St attorney 1794-1800 / Middlesex Sessions 24.10.1796 Charles Kane clerk to William Stacey of Poland St / J Stacy Poland St 1799 subscriber to edition of Milton's Paradise Lost / Richard bapt 22.5.1801 William bapt 15.7.1804 Mary Ann bapt 6.10.1811 all of William & Ann Stacey at St James / possibly William Stacey bach = St Marylebone 2.5.1792 Ann Revell botp banns

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

Andrew Staley ratebooks 6 Poland St from 1795 or before / SunFire 1798 Andrew Staley 6 Poland St gent / Boyle's Court Guide 1798-9 Andrew Staley 6 Poland St / he died 9.10.1813 at Poland St in 86th year (news) bur 15.10.1813 St James age 80 / his will PCC 1813 of Poland St gent mentioned wife Elizabeth, wife's son Andrew Staley, wife's daughter Anne Sainthill Staley, Elizabeth Rowe widow of the late George Rowe senior, surgeon of Cranborne, Dorset, niece Hannah Jones, nephew Benjamin Staley son of late brother…

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

William Sterck 16 Poland St ratebooks 1786-1792 / will London Consistory Court 1791 William Sterck watchmaker & dentist died 8.10.1791 widow Mary under £800

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Sarah Stevens spinster SunFire 1781 37 Poland St / presumably a subtenant of George Gundry (QV*) or James Bine (QV*) / SunFire 1779 Sarah Stevens spinster 23 Union St / SunFire 1778 Sarah Stephens spinster Mill St Hanover Sq / Sarah Stevens ratebooks 1782 Orange St North, St James / SunFire 1786 Sarah Stephens victualler The Sugar Loaf, Bell Yard, Temple Bar / William Weekley of Barnwell, Northants = Marylebone 10.12.1787 Sarah Stevens otp by Archbishop's lic wits Fredk & Cath Phelan / Sarah Stevens a common name so all…

6.8.1793 Stone, taylor (in small writing).

Perhaps John Stone tailor of 79 Leather Lane (1800) and of 24 King St Holborn (1806 Sun Fire Insurance).

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

William Stone, taylor of Poland Street sat on a Westminster coroners jury (London Lives 1781) and paid rates at 3 Poland St 1780-1782. William Stone tailor of Church St (St Anne Soho) voted Fox 1780. William Stone bach = St Marylebone 14.4.1787 Esther Jones sp botp by banns / William Stone buried St James 3.1.1790 / William Robert s of William & Esther…

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Stratten Esq 3 Newman St Law List 1798-99 / Boyle's Court Guide 1798-99 William Stretton 3 Newman St / SunFire 1799, 1801 Willikam Thomas Stretton gent 3 Newman St / Joseph Ward of Newman St witnessed William Thomas Stretton son of Elizabeth Stretton wid of Oxford St Soho articled to James William Mark of Upper Charlotte St (clerk to Joseph Ward of Newman St) / 25.4.1792 William Thomas Stretton articled to James Knox attorney of Newman St / Thomas Streeton bach otp = St Marylebone 2.5.1775 Elizabeth Bentley sp of St Geo Han…

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

Frederick Sutter 4 Poland St ratebooks 1788-1797 / SunFire 1791 Frederick Sutter 4 Poland St tailor. His will PCC 1830 dated 1826 late of Poland St but now of Heath Place Hackney mentioned his eldest daughter Ann Augusta Miller and her daughter Wilhelmina, and his daughter Elizabeth wife of Frederick Timme professor of Royal Miliotary College Sandhurst and their son Frederick John. Elizabeth Sutter = Frederick Timme 28.7.1810 St Marylebone. Anna Augusta dau of Frederick Sutter & Jane born 1773, married Henry…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

see Cook, Susannah (Crispin 39 Poland St)