see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
Captain David Collins of Marines DNB 1756-1810 signed the preface to his book at 6 Poland St 1797 / Nat Arch HO 42/41/82 f246-7 letter from Capt David Collins 6 Poland St to Home Office 29.11.1797 / . Andrew Staley (QV*) was probably the owner-occupier of the house at that time
see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
ratebooks 11 Poland St 1777-1797 George Ann Cook / Boyle's Court Guide 1794-99 / voted 1774 Percy & Clinton, 1784 Hood & Wray, 1790 Hood / will PCC 1802 purser RN, daus Juliet Cook, Lucy de la Salle, dau in law Mary Taylor
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Susanna Cook 39 Poland St (Crispin) ratebooks 1789-91 / 18.9.1788 coroners inquest on Susanna Thornton at Crispin Poland St Susannah Cook, witness Elizabeth Swabey servant to Mrs Cook took breakfast every day to house belonging to Mrs Cook where Susanna Thornton slept witness Samuel Cook brother to Susanna Thornton slept in same house as her in Oxford St. Swaby believed she died of suffocation, jury's verdict, died of excessive drinking / Susanna Thornton bur 22.9.1788 St James / 13.3.1789 coroners inquest on Elizabeth Swabey…
See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset
No 2 Castle St East Land Tax 1791-1800 Thomas Cook / SunFire 1794 Cook gent
A common name but I suspect, because it is so near the artist colony of Newman St, this may have been the engraver Thomas Cook ODNB 1744/5?-1818. Very little about his life in biographical sources. Thomas Cook, London subscr 6 copies of Bourrit's Glaciers of Savoy 1776 / Thomas Cook engraver, Stoke nr Norwich subscr 1779 to History of Thetford / TC Bartholomew Close took apprs 13.8.1783 for 7 yrs John Tennant Lovelace & Samuel…
see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset
Mrs Correge's Hotel 21 Suffolk St ads 1770-79 / 1803 Nat Arch PROB 18/110/13 John Correge, husband v Mary Brownbill widow, Elizabeth & Louisa McDaniel spinsters, William & Charles McDaniel, the pretended great nephews and nieces, of Mary Correge who died 20.2.1803 intestate. As Mary Fraser spinster she had married at St Werburgh's Dublin 14.12.1754 John Correge of Castle St, Dublin, where they were in the trades of jeweller and milliner, but then separated (articles of separation 30.7.1757). About 1762 she wrote…
see Poland Street 1 to 8 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
Ann Cotton 58 Poland St ratebooks 1780-92 57 Poland St ratebooks 1793-4 / SunFire 1791 Ann Cotton widow 58 Poland St (also 51 Charlotte St, Portland Place) / will PCC of Ann Cotton formerly Amon of Poland St dated 22.1.1795 mentioned house west side of Charlotte St, St Marylebone, sister Frances wife of Thomas Wilmot coachmaker of St Martins Stamford, Northants (Thomas Wilmot = St George Stamford, Lincs 1767 Frances Amon or Almon) sister Lydia Roberson sister Elizabeth Amon believed dead, nephew William Amon nieces…
see Newman St 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset
William Cramer 7 Newman St Land Tax 1791-4 / Boyle's 1792 Cramer & Robson 7 Newman St / Morning Post 19.3.1784 to 1.5.1795 concert tickets at Mr Cramer's 7 Newman St / Morning Post 12.6.1795 effects of a musical gentleman for sale 7 Newman St / SunFire 1779 William Cramer Esq 31 Berwick St / London Lives Old Bailey Sessions 18.9.1786 Cramer's house broken into / Highfill Burnim & Langhans Cramer, Wilhelm 1745-1799 violinist, composer, impresario
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Peter Crisp or Creps 41 (42) Poland St ratebooks 1777-9 / Peter Creps = St James 1.5.1758 Amee Mary Boulane (?) / Peter Creps wid = St Marylebone 28.2.1784 Margaret Richardson sp cbotp banns wit Eliz Lancaster / Middlesex Sessions July 1776 Peter Creps of Poland St baker to prosecute Peter Huard for perjury / Daily Advertiser 8.6.1777 ad c/o Mr Crespes' baker / Andrew Quesnell (QV*) his mark age 28 = St James 26.5.1777 Ann Creps her mark sp age 16 with consent of her father Peter Creps, baker all otp / will PCC proved 19.3.1799…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Rosetta Crispy 26 Poland St ratebooks 1779-89 // SunFire 1777 Rosalinda Crespi spinster Poland St opp the Pantheon / SunFire 1790 Rosalinda Crispi 25 Northumberland St // 4.10.1785 Joseph Dexter age 12 from St Martin's workhouse appr to Mr Crespi Poland St // Highfill, Burnim & Langhans Signora Crespi (fl. 1773-1786) dancer, benefit Drury Lane 8.5.1775 for Signr & Signa Crespi but Signor Crespi not known to have been a performer. From at latest 22.4.1777 through 17.5.1779 she lived at 26 Poland St opposite the back door…
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
Elizabeth Croft ratebooks 3 Poland St 1787-8. The will PCC 1797 of Mary Allsopp of Leicester made her goddaughter Elizabeth Croft executrix and residuary legatee dated 27.9.1796 with a note "send to Mrs Chawner 10 Hart St Bloomsbury to tell Elizabeth Croft she is my executor". She was perhaps daughter of Herbert (?) Croft who married Miss Chawner 1769. Mary Allsopp was the widow of Andrew Allsopp upholder of 28 Bedford St Covent garden who retired 1786 (ad) and left will PCC 1795. He had married Mary Eaton widow…
See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset
15 Castle St East Land Tax 1784-1794 William Cross 1796-1802 John Poole 1804 Thomas Pool
Witness to will of John Fletcher (QV*) in 1787 cheesemonger of Castle St / Will London Consistory Court dated 29.10.1794 of William Cross who died October sworn under £2000 wife Elizabeth children Margaret, Elizabeth, Edward & Matilda exec Henry Hurle sr of Pentonville wits C Dawes, Jas Jeffcott / William Cross = 14.7.1772 St James Piccadilly Margaret Carter, Margaret d of Wm & Mgt Cross bapt 15.8.1773 there. Edward…
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
ad 1790 Count D'Arnoux physician and oculist 57 Great Poland St / will PCC 2.11.1796 dated 12.4.1796 of John Arnoux occulist of Bridge Rd Lambeth late of Racket St, St Margaret in the suburbs of St Anthony Paris where he owned a "manufactory of ropes on improved principles, capstans, fire engine, land & navy pumps, a machine of a new construction for making flowered or damask cloths and a flower mill going by weights" "spinning wheel invented by me on a new construction" absent from France since 1789, left half…
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
Ad 1791 M D'Auberval & Mme Theodore D'Auiberval 52 Poland St / see Highfill Burnim & Langhans. D'Auberval was the composer/choreographer of La Fille Mal Gardee / Doane's 1794 D'Auberval Poland St / they were presumably tenants or guests of the Legoux (QV*) family
see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
Thomas Danks 15 Poland St ratebooks 1774-7 / Gazetteer 4.4.1778 lease of house in Poland St belonging to Mrs Danks, going abroad, facing the end of Gt Marlborough St and her furniture, almost new in an elegant stile / Thomas son of Thomas Danks & Mary bapt 4.3.1765 St Geo Han Sq / Thomas Danks = St Bartholomew, Wednesbury, Staffs 9.9.1754 Mary Brittell / Brettal or Brittle 16 Poland St ratebooks 1773-77 / will of Thomas Danks, coal master of Wednesbury, Staffordshire proved Lichfield 5.11.1807 mentioned wife…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
William Davey 21 Poland St ratebooks 1785-6 / William Davay chandler Poland St coroners jury 1786 / William Davey = St James 27.8.1770 Elizabeth Barber botp by banns wit John Roberts
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
John Davidge 28 Poland St ratebooks 1790-1800 / John Davidge born 16.5.1756 Breamore, Hants (Ancestry user-submitted tree) / John Westrow Davidge = St Geo Han Sq 23.4.1785 Sarah Sutliff botp banns wits Nathl Sutliff, Susanah Lappacq / John Westrow Davidge son of John & Sarah bapt 29.7.1791 bur 3.2.1792 St James / Elizabeth Davidge bapt 20.1.1793 dau of John & Sara bur 12.4.1795 St James / John Davidge son of John & Sarah bapt 26.4.1795 bur 14.5.1795 St James / Deborah bapt 11.6.1796 Ann bapt 16.8.1798 Joseph Daniel…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Thomas Davidson 40 Poland St (Pantheon Punch House) ratebooks 1790-1800 / Thomas Davison victualler Vine St, St Martin i t Fields voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon will PCC 1779 / Thomas Davison otp = St James 18.2.1762 Mary Bullivant of St Geo Han Sq by Archbishop's lic wit Patrick Gillfoy / Michael Humble = Holborn 1.8.1782 Mary Bullivant Davison botp wits Isabella Humble, Thos Brown / SunFire 1789 Thomas Davison victualler corner Bedford St, Tottenham Court Rd / Thomas Davison victualler Poland St voted 1790 Hood / coroners…
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
ratebooks 51 (then 50) Poland St 1784 John Joseph Glassatree 1785-6 James Glassatree / directory 1786 J G De La Cetree merchant 50 Poland St / 17.10. 1786 bankrupt John Joseph Garnier de la Setree late of Princes St, London, merchant, certificate Feb 1788 / 11.1.1782 Garnier de la Cetree ancien capitaine d'infanterie (Memoires Secrets London 1783 vol 20 p19)
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Mary Dennis 22 Poland St ratebooks 1785-7 / Mary Dennis bur St James 15.1.1789 adult poor
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses database
Urania Devins 2 Poland St ratebooks 1781 / SunFire 1790 Urania Devins 15 Broad St Carnaby Market perfumer 1798 Urania Devins 15 Broad St Carnaby Market widow. A Urania Devins dau of Henry Albert Devins & Mary was born 29.11.1759 and baptised 6.1.1760 at St Marylebone. However on 25.6.1760 a child Urania Devins from St Marylebone was buried at St James Paddington. A Urania Devins dau of Claudius & Mary Henrietta (nee Devilleneuve) Devins was born 31.10.1729 and bapt 1.1.1729/30 at St Anne Soho. This may have…