A-Z of Entries

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

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)

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

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…

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

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…

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 in London Addresses dataset

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…

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

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

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

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

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

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

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

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

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

ad in World 4.6.1791 tickets for Signor Morelli's benefit from him at 12 Poland St / Highfill, Burnim & Langhans Giovanni Morelli fi 1787-1815 bass singer

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

No 6 Castle St East Land Tax 1797-1798 Mary Morgan / Sun Fire 1797 Mary Morgan 6 Castle St spinster

At a trial on 16.4.1795 (oldbaileyonline) Isabella Hawley was a witness who said she had been servant to Mrs Morgan of Castle St, Oxford Market for 3 or 4 months till last January. It concerned a robbery of coins and jewels worth several thousand pounds for which a reward of £1000 had been offered and the defense suggested that Hawley was making up her very damning evidence to get the reward, and also asked…

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Thomas Morgan 36 Poland St ratebooks 1784-6 / Bailey's directory 1785 Thomas Morgan tobacconist Poland St / Wakefield's directory 1790 Thomas Morgan tobacconist Portland St

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Evan Morris' wife Ann lodged at 22 Poland St Old Bailey 4.7.1798 / there was an Evan Morris milkman of Bowling St Westminster with a wife Ann, he voted there in 1788 and 1796 and it was his address when he made his will 18.2.1811 mentioning brother Thomas of Little Britain proved by widow Ann 9.4.1812, his son Evan articled clerk in 1808 / there was also an Evan Morris buried St James 17.9.1809 adult (age 60 according to familysearch?) / Evan Morris = St Geo Han Sq 29.9.1784 Ann Arnold botp by banns wits Eliz Campin, Bernard…

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Robert Mumford 34 Poland St rate books 1776-83 / Robert Mumford = St James 5.10.1775 botp banns wit John Marsh / Elizabeth dau of Robert & Elizabeth Mumford bapt 22.12.1776 St James / Robert Mumford Poland St voted 1780 Fox & Rodney / ad 1783 Mr Mumford's coal dealer / William Stephen son of Robert Mumford born 15.9.1778 bapt 25.8.1784 St Gregory by St Paul / Robert Mumford adult bur 11.3.1790 St Marylebone / will PCC 1726 Robert Mumford collier of Holborn

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Old Bailey 29.3.1792 a very interesting trial, read it online (London Lives or oldbaileyonline) concerns theft from lodgers at 2 Newman St, the house of Robert Christie (QV*). Elizabeth Meyles spinster had been living there on the first floor with Captain Cornelius Laen Murphy for four months, passing as his wife. William Garrow (DNB 1760-1840) counsel for the accused, a "black" from Pondicherry, tried to imply in his cross-questioning that Meyles and her fellow lodger Margaret Smith (on the second floor) were engaged in…