A-Z of Entries

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William Hill 56 Poland St ratebooks 1773-4 / William Hill musician Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Clinton  / William Hill musician of Hampstead PCC dated 11.8.1790 proved 16.11.1790 mentioned dau Mary son William late sister Mary Sharp execs brother Benjamin Hill musician of Chelsea & James Fisher engraver of Charlotte St, Rathbone Place / children of William & Elizabeth Hill bapt St James William & Mary Ann 1765 Robert & William 1776 Sarah 1779 / William Hill = St James 14.11.1765 Elizabeth…

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London Gazette 4.6.1776 Stephen Hollyman prisoner for debt in Kings Bench, formerly of Oxford St St Marylebone, late of Poland St, St James taylor intending to take benefit of Insolvent Debtors Act / daily Advertiser 24.7.1778 ad Mr Hollyman's 36 Poland St / Gazetteer 19.4.1781 ad Mr Hollyman's 36 Poland St / Stephen Hollyman bapt 16.5.1744 of Stephen & Elizabeth St Clement Danes / Stephen Hollyman = St Geo Han Sq 12.10.1775 Elizabeth Greening botp banns / Stephen Hollyman bur 23.11.1791 St Clement Danes / a Thomas Hollyman…

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At the Old Bailey in 1779 Abraham Dalby age 13 was a witness who said his master was Mr Holmes of 6 Poland St and that his master's son was a waiter in a Fleet St tavern

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Thomas Holt 29 Poland St ratebooks 1800 / (possibles)Thomas Holt = St James 28.8.1796 Sarah Anderson botp by banns / Thomas Holt = St James 27.1.1801 Jemima Clarke botp by banns / SunFire 1807 Thomas Holt 29 Poland St currier (also 31-4 Union St Lambeth) also 1808 currier & leather cutter

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Charles Horwell 33 Poland St ratebooks 1780 / Charles Horwell bach = St Pancras 27.8.1780 Ann Davies botp banns wits Thomas Horwell, Frances Davies / Charles Horwell ratebooks Little Pulteney St 1783 / Charles Horwell sculptor exhibited Royal Academy from 1785 address 3 Tottenham Court Rd / 10.9.1796 criminal registers Isaac Peyton stone mason sentenced to 7 yrs transportation for stealing Charles Horwell's marble slab / Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors Charles Horwell b 1754

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Nathaniel Horwood 14 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1777 / N Horwood signed St Anne Soho ratebooks 1780 / Nathaniel Horwood ratebooks Dean St, St James 1770-1774 / Nath Harwood ratebooks 1784 Pultney Court, St James / SunFire 1777 Henry Hickson gent at Mr Horwood's, 14 Batemans Buildings / Henry Hickson will PCC 1780 gent of York mentioned contacts and property in London but not Horwood or Batemans Buildings / Henry Hickson = St James Picc'y 23.2.1764 Mary Killiner of St Martin i t Fields by lic wits John & Mary Bassi / Nathaniel…

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Morning Herald 9.12.1786 ad M Howard (female) clear starcher, gauze washer, silk stocking cleaner & working milliner 37 Poland St / just possibly SunFire 1817 Margaret Elizabeth Howard 52 Old St dressmaker & milliner / presumably a subtenant of James Bine (QV*) and/or John Mills (QV*)

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

No 10 Castle St East Harris's List 1790 Miss H-w-rd

According to the text of Harris's List she was called Polly (usually short for Margaret) was aged about 19 and had been a servant at the Thirteen C-nt-ns. There were several inns or eating houses called the Thirteen Cantons in London at the time and it was a common name for Switzerland and many of the customers may have been Swiss. One was in King St Soho and another in Moor St Soho, probably the same one referred to as being in St Giles. Another was at 33…

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Robert Hownam ratebooks 7, Batemans Buildings / SunFire 1785 Robert Hownam gent 7 Batemans Buildings / Robert Hownam gent Batemans Buildings voted 1788 Townshend / Robert Hownam gent St Albans St  voted 1790 Fox / Joachim Robert Hownam bapt 4.6.1790 St James Picc'y born 14.5.1790 son of Robert & Sarah (see Boase, Joseph Robert Hownam, entered RN 1803, died 1859) baptism entry for Joseph Robert Hownam inserted in a different hand at end of April 1790, gave birth date as 14.4.1790. Also daughters Jane 1788 and Clara Maria 1793 of…

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William Hunneman SunFire 1783 limner 8 Poland St / ad 1791 Hunneman friend of J F A Gottling and pupil of Messrs Klaproth and Harmbstaedt of Berlin / Hunneman exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1776 to 1787 except 1784 and none of his addresses listed in Graves were Poland St / Christopher William Hunneman SunFire 1792  gent 59 Frith St / Christopher William Hunneman will PCC 1793 portrait & miniature painter Soho mentioned his wife Sarah Ann (who was buried St Ann Soho 20.1.1816 age 50) / their…

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According to the plaque outside the Kings Arms 23 Poland St  Henry Hurle founded the Ancient Order of Druids there on 29.11.1781. I don't know of any contemporary record of this, it probably rests on a statement in a Druid magazine some years later but perhaps within living memory of the event. (see Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe p133). The publican would probably have been Alexander Warren who had married on 15.9.1781 Elizabeth, widow of the previous publican William Arthur who died in 1779. / Henry Hurle of St Luke = St…

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Jno Hutchins 12 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1777-1788 (note 1788 moved to Church St Soho) / John Hutchins Batemans Buildings gent voted 1780 Fox & Rodney 1784 Fox / John Hutchins bur 16.10.1803 St Anne Soho age 40 of Greek St fever

a common name but the two votes distinguish him from several other Westminster householders of that name who also voted then. see work notes below