A-Z of Entries

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Edward Wilmot 21 Poland St ratebooks 1777-8 / coroners jury 1777 Edward Wilmot cheesemonger Poland St / Edward Wilmot = St James 4.2.1777 Mary Farrell botp by banns wits Wm Bowsey Eliz Lee her mark  / Old Bailey 15.7.1778 Mr Wilmot witness "my house is in Poland St almost opposite Marlborough St" Jane Wheeler witness "I am the wife ofJohn Wheeler, we rent a room of Mr Wilmot but I had let this room to one John Davidson, it is a front room up two pair of stairs". John Wheeler was a common name but he may have been the same as…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Richard Wiltshire 26 Poland St ratebooks 1795-7 // (possibly the same as some of these) will PCC 19.4.1805 of Richard Wiltshire gent of 31 Hatton Garden dated 7.7.1803 mentioned his wife Susannah,  William, Elizabeth & Matilda his children by Mary Maitland dau of Charles & Ann Maitland of Newmarket, Cambs, and his natural sons Richard attorney & Francis, both of 31 Hatton Garden // Richard Wiltshire = St Luke Old St 20.12.1765 Susanna Kitchen / William son of Richard & Susanna of Gravile St bapt 27.5.1764 Holborn…

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

Andrew Wood ratebooks 55 Poland St 1780-2 / Andrew Wood perfomer Swallow St coroners jury 1770 / Andrew Wood mantua maker Swallow St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / SunFire 1779 Andrew Wood mantua maker 55 Poland St / Andrew Wood Poland St voted Fox & Lincoln 1780 / (Andrew Wood = St James 6.10.1780 Frances Buirn) / Andrew Wood sacque & habit maker bankrupt 1787 / (an Andrew Wood was charged with rape of Mary MacDonald in Nov 1789 in Charles Court in the Strand and acquitted at Old Bailey) /  Andrew…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Wood 30 Poland St ratebooks 1782-88 Mary Wood 1789-1800 / SunFire 1780 John Wood plumber 30 Poland St / John Wood Poland St voted Fox & Rodney 1780 plumber Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 17.7.1786 John Wood plumber of Poland St dated 29.10.1784 mentioned wife Mary dau Harriet children of brother Phillip Wood (John, Thomas & Hannah Wood) wit Paul Fox servant to Mr Wood codicil 25.2.1785 / will PCC 19.12.1805 Mary Wood widow of Poland St dated 24.10,1804 to be buried in Tottenham Court chapel near husband &…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Woollams 44 (45) Poland St ratebooks 1783-94 Mary Woollams 1795-1800 / perhaps Thomas Woollams bach = St Leonard Shoreditch 23.7.1776 Mary Bryer wid botp / or less likely Thomas Woollams wid = Christchurch Spitalfields 13.6.1784 Mary Nordman both of the Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground / Thomas & Sarah twins bapt 1780, Thomas bapt 1781, William bapt 1783 & Thomas bapt 1785 all at St James of Thomas & Mary Woollams / Thomas Woollams perukemaker of Poland St voted 1784 Fox / coroners jury 1792 Thomas Woolams…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Woolley 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1788-9 / SunFire 1783 John Woolley victualler of Greek St, Soho but he may have been the John William Woolley victualler of Westminster whose will was proved 19.10,1786 PCC by his widow Mary Ann, no children mentioned / perhaps SunFire 1790 John Woolley victualler of the Three Mariners, Oare, nr Faversham Kent (his will PCC 1815) / perhaps John Woolley bur 15.2.1819 St Geo Han Sq age 69 of Lee's Mews

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

Capt Henry Wray ratebooks 7 PolandSt 1788 / Henry Wray RN = 24.4.1783 St James Elizabeth Ideson / Luke Henry son of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 6.2.1784 St James / Anjel dau of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 1.9.1786 Westminster / will PCC 1825 Henry Wray Guernsey dated 13.12.1819 all to Angel Wray proved 30.12.1825 by Angel Wray Rosetti wife of Anthony Rosetti

Nat Arch ADM 254/223/59 Henry Wray of Seagull sloop 1796. Commander 1795-1817 Henry Wray Nat Arch ADM 9/4/888 . See Ideson, Luke

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

6 Poland St ratebooks 1780-9 Mrs Wright (poor). The note poor may imply she was let off paying the rates. This does not necessarily mean she was living in greater poverty than some of her neighbouring householders.  Others marked as poor in the ratebooks were Joseph Bennett at 20 Poland St and John Heslop at 25 Poland St. The name Wright was very common but two burials around the time her tenancy ended were Elizabeth Wright adult bur St Martin in the Fields 21.3.1789, Sarah Wright adult bur 3.9.1789 St James

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Wright 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1785-6 / a very common name, three William Wright  victuallers voted 1784 Westminster, Shug Lane St James voted Hood & Wray, Haymarket voted Fox (and SunFire 1779 there), Oxendon St, St Martin i t Fields voted Fox, also in 1780 wine merchant Tothill St voted Fox, in 1790 victualler Peter St, St Margaret & St John voted Fox, in 1818 Audley St St Geo Han Sq voted Burdett & Kinnaird. In SunFire 1777 victualler Billericay, Essex, 1777 wine merchant Barnaby St, 1777…

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

Francis Wylde 15 Poland St ratebooks 1780-1782 / 1779 Francis Wylde mantua maker St James took appr Dorothy Ingry / SunFire 1780 Francis Wilde gent Poland St / Francis Wild gent Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 1792 Francis Wild of Bishopsgate, Surrey

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 and also Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Andrew Yuell 18 Poland St ratebooks 1789-90 / Andrew Yuell 16 Batemans Buildings Soho ratebooks 1777 / Andrew Yuell taylor Poland St voted Hood 1790 / Andrew Yuell = St Martin in the Fields 24.2.1794 Mary Dobson botp wits Geo Gardner, Nichs Vincent / the will PCC 1808 gentleman of Chapel St Bedford Row, Middlesex may have been his