A-Z of Entries

Morelli, Giovanni

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


Morgan, Mary

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…


Morgan, Thomas

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

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


Morris, Evan

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addressesdataset

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…


Mumford, Robert

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London addresses dataset

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


Murphy, Cornelius

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…


Murray, Edward Augustus

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

Edward Augustus Murray gent SunFire 1777 nr Broad St Poland St / Edward Murray gent Poland St voted 1784 Hood & Wray / ratebooks 4 Poland St 1780 Agnes Murray 1781-4 Mrs Mackie. True Briton 30.11.1796 Edward Augustus Murray Esq died at his house in Charlotte St, Rathbone Place. His will PCC 1796 mentioned his housekeeper Agnes Mackie and her sister Mary wife of William Benson, mother of children Charles Benson to whom he left house in Wimpole St, James Benson to whom he left public house corner of Goodge St,…


Nardini, Leonardo

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

F Da Ponte & Vogel 15 Poland St published Daniel Barbaro in Italian 1796 / Leonardo Nardini & Anthony Dulau 15 Poland Street published 1799 Rochefoucauld's Maxims & Gli Zingari in Fiera / Societe Typographique Francaise 15 Poland St 1799 / 1804 L Nardini gone abroad / John Leonardo Nardini born 18.5.1789 bapt 27.5.1804 St James mother Mary Hazell / 1797 translation into French of Rowe's Jane Shore by L.D.C.V.G.D.N. se trouve chez l'auteur 41 Poland St (maybe Nardini?) sold by A Dulau 107 Wardour |St…


Nash, Edmund

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Edmund Nash gent 36 Poland St SunFire 1782 / Edmund Nash widower of Town Malling Kent = St James 1786 Sarah Augers sp by lic / Edmund Nash gent 15 Bridges St Covt Gdn SunFire 1780 / Edmund Nash gent late of Noble St, St Olave's Wood St but now of Bridges St Covt Gdn articled 10.5.1780 to Benjamin Arthur attorney of Middle Row Holborn 1.5.1781 Edmund Nash of Water St, St Clement Danes transferred to Francis Matthews attorney of Inner Temple, Edmund Nash attorney at various addresses 1787-96, 1790 Edmund Nash attorney of Staples…


Naylor, Grange

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

SunFire 1800, 1807, 1810, 1814 Grange Naylor 29 Poland St, gent (also property in Free School St & Fair St, Horselydown & 16 Little Windmill St, St James apothecary) / Grange son of Johnson & Margaret Naylor of Church La, St Mary Whitechapel / Johnson Nailor 7.8.1723 freedom of Merchant Taylor's Company, freedom of son Grange 1745 attested by Abram & Jame Naylor clothworkers / Grange Naylor = All Hallows London Wall 21.12.1752 Elizabeth Hovendon / Robert s of Grange & Eliz Naylor shipwright Raven & Sun…


Nelson, Jane

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Jane Nelson 2 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1779? / Jane Nelson woman bur 24.5.1804 St Martin i t Fields


Newby, Charles

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48

Charles Newby 47 Poland St ratebooks 1778-1818 / SunFire 1778 Charles Newby apothecary no 46 / voted 1774 (apothecary of Brewer St) Mountmorres & Mahon 1802 Fox & Gardner 1806 Sheridan & Paull / born 1744 Yorks son of Ambrose Newby, married St James 2.11.1769 Elizabeth Crowther who died 17.12.1803 her admon 1.4.1814 London Consistory Court, his will same court 30.1.1819 under £14,000 mentioned John William Newby of 48 Poland St apothecary, his dau Maria Frances Waum widow of Newcastle on Tyne, his dau in law Mary widow of late…


Newcomb, John

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Newcomb Doane's 1794 bass, piano teacher 29 Poland St / John Newcomb = St Martin i t Fields 1.2.1773 Elizabeth Wilkes botp banns wits Titus Newcomb, Joseph Coles / Titus s of John & Eliz Newcomb bapt 30.12.1773 St James / John bapt 18.5.1777 Eliz Amelia bapt 1.1.1784 St Martin i t F both of John & Eliz Newcomb / John Morris Newcomb bur St James 7.3.1789 child /  Charles Augustus Henry Newcomb bapt 23.3.1789 John Newcomb bapt 14.2.1797 St James both of John & Eliz / Titus Newcomb = Dudley, Worcs 4.11.1751 Judith…


Nicholl, Charles

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Charles Nicholls 19 Poland St ratebooks 1795-7 / Charles Nicholl cabinet maker Poland St voted 1796 Fox & Tooke / SunFire 1785 Charles Nicholl cabinet maker 5 Cox's Court, Aldersgate St / SunFire 1792 Charles Nicholl cabinet maker 14 Georges Court, Red Lion St, Clerkenwell


Nicholson, Robert

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Robert Nicholson 40 Poland St (Pantheon Punch House) ratebooks 1787-9 / SunFire 1777 Robert Nicholson victualler The Monson Arms, Tottenham St , SunFire1778 Robert Nicholson victualler The Seven Stars Market Lane / Robert bapt 6.8.1777, John bapt 22.10.1779, Mary Ann bapt 27.5.1781 Percy Chapel, St Pancras of Robert & Ann Nicholson / Robert Nicholson victualler Petty France Westminster voted Rodney & Lincoln 1780 / Old Bailey 10.1.1781 witness Hannah Gladwin "my husband absconding, my brother, Robert Nicholson has put me…


Noferi

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

Public Advertiser 5.4.1757 composition by Gio. Battista Noferi / Giovanni Baptista Noferi = Linton Cambs 18.8.1757 Ann Ottway / Francis Noferi = St Marylebone 7.11.1774 Mary Wester / many ads 1770s guittar accompaniment &c by Signor Noferi / Public Advertiser 17.3.1781 benefit for Mr Noferi 2 Poland St / General Advertiser 21.2.1782 apoplectic fit of Mr Noferi leader of the ballet at Kings Theatre Opera House / Morning Herald 28.2.1782 Mr Noferi died 26.2.1782 / Morning Herald 11.4.1782 benefit for Mrs Noferi 5…


Norris, Dr

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Norris 26 Poland St ratebooks 1788-94 (Edward 1789 and 1793-4, Thomas 1790-2) // Boyle's Court Guide 1793-4 Dr Norris // will PCC 1793 Thomas Norris chemist and in the practice of physic, St Geo Han Sq (the owner of Dr Noris's much advertised drops) left his property to William Bacon of Oxford St and his clerk John Satchell in trust for his dau Mary Ann Gale and her children Charlotte, Thomas & Robert Gale / Thomas Gale bach otp = St Margaret Westminster 26.3.1775 Mary Ann Norris sp otp by lic wits Thos Norris, Jos Fox //…


North, Martha

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Martha North spinster 31 Poland St SunFire 1786 / perhaps the Martha North bur St Pancras 8.4.1827 age 88


O'Hara, Ann

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

Ann O"Hara ratebooks 52 Poland St 1782 / (news) she died 26.3.1782 Poland St / her will PCC 1784 dated 11.10.1781 mentioned her two nephews Charles & George O'Hara mulatto boys born at Senegal, sons to brother Charles O"Hara. On 19.6.1784 Jemima O'Hara spinster of St Geo Han Sq swore to her handwriting but admon was granted to Thomas King a creditor. Anne & Jemima O'Hara were two natural (i.e.illegitimate) daughters of James O'Hara, baron Tyrawley DNB 1681/2-1773, and Charles O'Hara DNB c.1740-1802 was their…


O'Reilly, John

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John O'Reilly (Orely) 44 Poland St ratebooks 1774-9 / SunFire 1777 John O'Relly taylor Poland St