A-Z of Entries

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Henry Fellowes 14 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1781 / Henry Fellows (man) bur 6.11.1785 St Martin i t Fields / Henry Arthur Fellows son of Henry & Martha born 30.9.1764 bapt 25.4.1786 St Geo Han Sq

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Keane Fitzgerald 48 Poland St ratebooks 1777-1783 / letter to Keane Fitzgerald at Royal Society dated 1724 RS/PP11/MM.4.58 but this date may be an error as there was no earlier Keane Fitzgerald in FRS list / he married 19.7.1746 at Oxford Chapel, Vere St, Mary Joye / 1748 London Metr Archives HB/D/138 HM Bailiff & Collector for Bailiwick of St James in the Fields / Fellow of Royal Society 1756 / Royal Society 1757 experiment with distilled salt water in steam engines, 1760 metalline thermometer, and many…

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No 11 Castle Street East Land Tax 1791-1796 John Fletcher Land Tax 7 Markett Place (Oxford Market) 1800-1803 John Fletcher

Will PCC of John Fletcher of Little Castle St greengrocer dated 9.8.1787 wits Wm Cross cheesemonger Castle St (QV*), G Hartforth (QV*). His widow Sarah proved 18.2.1789 / burs St Marylebone John Fletcher (adult) 26.7.1788, 8.2.1789. The following are just possibles for JF or his possible son of same name. John Fletcher gent bach otp = 7.1.1763 St Andrew Holborn by lic Sarah Bayes sp otp /…

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Elizabeth Flint 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1791-5 / SunFire 6.4.1791 Elizabeth Flint, Kings Arms, Poland St / coroners jury 9.3.1795 at Kings Arms house of Elizabeth Flint in Poland St on death of Thomas Hackett who cut his throat. By her testimony he was her brother (she called him "your uncle" to her son) who had lived 20 years in Quebec and Charlestown and come home three months previously (see Nat Arch HO 47/17/26 and Old Bailey 30.10.1793 concerning a 19 year old Thomas Hackett from Charlestown whose uncle Philip…

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Francis Flower ratebooks 6 Batemans Bldgs 1777 / perhaps Francis Flower bapt 8.3.1761 St James Piccadilly (mother Mary Ann Lucas) / will PCC 1768 Francis Flower (Carpenters Company tallow chandler to Royal Household & haberdasher) Jermyn St, St James wife Mary Ann, children Ann Elizabeth Franc(e?)s & William, will PCC 1785 Mary Ann Flower wid of Edmonton / SunFire 1777 Francis Flower schoolmaster 38 Brownlow St / Land Tax St Pancras 1785 Fras Flower New Rd / Francis Flower buried St James Piccy 14.7.1793 (image not seen) /…

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John Francois 18 Poland St ratebooks 1782-1788 / Gazeteer 13.6.1788 ad for sale of furniture at 18 Poland St of Mr Francois going abroad. See Gordon, Cosmo

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True Briton 10.1.1795 At F.S.Franque's A.M. 28 Poland St, young gentlemen instructed in French & Writing, Classical & Mathematical learning / Old Bailey 6.12.1797 Stephen Franque "I am a native of France; I have no particular profession; I lodge at No 38 Poland Street; there is one other lodger beside me, a gentleman and his wife; I pay my rent to them. Are they in possession of the whole house? They are. What are their names? Davidge" (38 clearly an error for 28 see Davidge, John) "How long have you been in the country…

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John Freeman 7 Batemans Buildings ratebooks / Morning Post 19.2.1776 & 20 more ads up to 8.6.1776 all in Morning Post except 2 in Gazetteer, all for money broking &c by Mr Freeman 7 Batemans Buildings / probably the same as John Freeman prosecuted Middlesex Sessions April 1783 for a fraud on Thomas Cussans. According to Thomas Martyn's King of the Swindlers, he was of Hay Hill, Worcestershire and Cleveland Court off St James Place, and had been solicitor to Mr Guest the High Bailiff of Birmingham

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Thomas Freeman ratebooks 51 Poland St 1789-95 / Thomas Freeman surveyor Poland St voted Hood 1790 / ( Holdens 1810 Thomas Freeman Esq 71 Lambs Conduit St ) / SunFire 1781 Thomas Freeman surveyor Piccadilly 

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Joseph Frewen 35 Poland St ratebooks 1779-86 / SunFire 1782 Joseph Frewen cheesemonger 35 Poland St / Joseph Frewen bach = St Marylebone 20.11.1780 Mary Hewitt sp botp / children William bapt 11.8.1782, George bapt 18.11.1783, Jane Elizabeth bapt 7.6.1786 St James / Andrews' directory 1789, 1790 Joseph Frewen cheesemonger 136 Oxford St / Joseph Frewin 11 Old Cavendish St Land Tax 1792-1805 / Joseph Frewen wid = St Marylebone 24.5.1813 Ann Emblin wid botp by lic wits Ann Paris, Richard Parkins / Joseph Frewen from Monkwell St, City of…

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Ratebooks 3 Poland St 1792 David Gallier 1795 Ann Galliard. Jean David Galliard craim maker license 23.7.1777 married St James 25.7.1777 Ann Hilditch sp botp. Children Catherine Elizabeth bapt 1779, Charles John bapt 1781, John David bapt 25.1.1783 St James. Bailey's Directory 1784 & 1785 David Galliard crayon maker 227 Piccadilly. Ann Galiard bur Nantwich Cheshire 30.12.1826 age 74. John Galliard solicitor Nantwich, Cheshire wills 1824. John Baptist Galliard Land Tax 1806-16 Gerrard St Soho

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Elizabeth Gambarini 9 Poland St ratebooks 1774 / Elizabeth dau of Caroli Gambarini nobili Lucensis & Joanna Stradiotti nobili Dalmati bapt 1.11.1730 St Marylebone / see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans under De Gambarini / 1748 Lessons on the Harpsichord by Elizabeth Gambarini published with a portrait of her painted and engraved by Nathaniel Hone, in her benefit that year she sang and played her own composition on the organ. Benefits in 1752, 1760 and sale of her late father's pictures 1762 / Elizabeth Gambarini…

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Stephen Garibaldi ratebooks 9 Poland St 1787-9 / Highfill,Burnim & Langhans. He played bass viol and died 1790 at Calais . There were two "Covent Garden ladies" at this address in 1790 according to Harris's List so it's not clear whether he would have been their landlord

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Richard Gash 27 Poland St ratebooks 1800 / Richard Gash = St Anne Soho 9.8.1791 Elizabeth Baggarley botp banns / Richard Gash coachmaker Poland St voted Paull 1806 / London Met Arch BRA747/62 lease William Stone of Villiers St Strand merchant to Richard Gash 8.5.1809 yard in Horseferry Rd, Westminster and lofts, counting house and warehouse now erecting there for carrying on the trade of coachmaker, £155 p.a.

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Richard Chase Gedge Land Tax 1 Newman St 1796-7 / Bailey's Directory 1790 Richard Chase Gedge muslin warehouse 1, Newman St / Richard Chase Gedge linen draper 39 Oxford St directories 1759-1791 (39 Oxford St was the corner premises on the east side of Newman St)

Richard Chase Gedge born 21.1.1760 bapt 3.2.1760 of Peter & Alice St Michael at Plea, Norwich (their other children bapt there Robert Harvey 1754, Richard 1756, Peter 1758 (see Gedge. Peter in Godwin Diary dataset), William 1761, John 1764, Joseph 1766) / Alice…

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Lorenzo Giani 46 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1800 / Signor Giani dancer Kings Theatre 1791-6 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) may have been him / will PCC 1815 Lorenzo Giani Church St Middlesex Hospital dated 4.7.1815 mentioned son Augustus wife Bridget friend Vincent Vansshocht of Camberwell schoolmaster according to familysearch he married Bridget Jones 22.1.1807 St Anne Soho but haven't found original of this. Charles Lorenzo Giani son of Lorenzo & Bridget was bapt St Ann Soho 28.7.1806 (born 12.4.1801).…

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William Gibbs 19 Poland St ratebooks 1773-4 then Noel St / William Gibbs cabinet maker Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Clinton (the ratebooks and voting record may have spelt William Gibb (see below) as Gibbs) / (perhaps) children of William & Mary Gibbs bapt St James - William 1761 George 1774 / (perhaps) SunFire 1786 William Gibbs carpenter Robinsons Lane Chelsea / PCC 23.5.1833 William Gibbs of Chelsea / PCC 1794 Elizabeth Edden

William Gibb cabinetmaker otp = St James Piccy 14.12.1766 Catherine Rowlinson of…

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Francis Gibert 12 Poland St ratebooks 177 7-1804 / Francois Gibert (perfumer in Marr Lic) = St James 10.7.1771 Marie Francoise Rose Berthey / 1777 ad for AB dancing master c/o Gibert perfumer Poland St / ad 16.7.1782 mantua maker seeks place c/o Gibert perfumer 12 Poland St / ad 9.6.1784 Mr I.H.H. native of Switzerland seeks place travelling abroad / ad 7.3.1786 for lodgings in Paris / Bailey's 1788 Francis Gibert perfumer / ad 11.6.1789 T.L.P. seeks place as valet / ad 3.10.1795 ad for chemical liquor / ad 3.7.…

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No 8 Castle St East Land Tax 1784 Thomas Gibson / Harris's List 1788 Miss Br-wn 1789 Miss B-ks

The Covent Garden Ladies were in the gap for which we have no Land Tax Records 1785-1790. Thomas Gibson = 11.5.1776 St James Piccadilly to Lydia Louise Jullion / London Consistory Court will dated 13.8.1785 of Thomas Gibson builder of St Marylebone with brother James erecting building on corner of Weymouth St & Portland Pl mortgaged to John Elwes Esq, wife Louisa Lydia proved 17.9.1785 / Louisa Lydia Gibson widow…

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Thomas Gilbert Esq 50 Poland St ratebooks 1782-3 / perhaps Thomas Gilbert DNB 1720-1798. MP for Lichfield at this time but his town address was given in Royal Kalendar and similar publications through these years as Queen St, Westminster. A Thomas Gilbert junr, perhaps his son, was listed as a Clerk Extraordinary to the Privy Council in these years