A-Z of Entries

Cole, Benjamin

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Benjamin Cole ratebooks c.1781 4 Batemans Buildings / various people called Benjamin Cole / engraver of Kings Court Holborn 1767, engraver of Titchfield St Soho voted Mountmorres & Mahon 1774, will PCC 1783 engraver of Holborn / peruke maker of Rupert St 1771 voted Percy & Clinton 1774, SunFire 1790 gent 6 Vauxhall Walk Lambeth other property 5 Rupert St (Seymour hairdresser) / surveyor of Brook St voted Percy & Clinton 1774, SunFire 1777 coachmaker of George Yd Brook St voted Hood & Fox 1784, Hood 1788, Hood &…


Cole, George

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

George Cole 38 Poland St ratebooks 1777-83 / George Cole tallow chandler Poland St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / SunFire 1776 George Cole tallow chandler next the Crispin Poland St / Daily Advertiser 1.5.1776 lease and furniture of house of George Cole tallow chandler Poland St for auction / 1777 coroner's inquest witness George Cole of Poland St tallow chandler / coroners jury 1779 / Gazetteer 24.5.1780 ad for sale of lease of house in Poland St nr the Pantheon let to Mr Cole at £30 p.a. / George Cole bur 21.8.1798…


Coleman, John

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Coleman 36 Poland St ratebooks 1791-5 / SunFire 1791 John Coleman corn chandler 36 Poland St


Colhoun, John

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Colhoun 32 Poland St ratebooks 1786-7 / John Colhoun = St Anne Soho 17.9.1784 Anne Green botp banns, Ann dau of John & Ann Calhoon bapt St James 8.1.1787 / Old Bailey 21.2.1776 coal dealer with Robert Brown (address not given) / SunFire 1783 oilman Rood Lane 1789 oilman and dealer in wines 29 Rood Lane / John Colhoun & William Annand merchants Bow Lane bankrupt 1789 / John Colhoun coal Merchant Rood Lane bankrupt 1793


Collins, David

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


Cook, George Ann

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


Cook, Susannah

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…


Cook, Thomas

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…


Correge, Mary

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…


Cotton, Ann

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…


Cramer, William

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


Creps, Peter

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…


Crespi, Rosetta

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…


Croft, Elizabeth

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…


Cross, William

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…