A-Z of Entries

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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*)

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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

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SunFire 1790 Luke Ideson gent 49 Poland St. He doesn't appear in ratebooks as the leaseholder was the parish of St James and Ideson was the parish clerk . He may have been the Luke son of Robert Ideson bapt 1739 Burnsall Yorks. If so his father came to London soon after, as Inman son of Robert & Hannah Ideson was bapt St James 1747, Robert Ideson = Esther Braithwaite 17.10.1754 St Paul Covt Gdn, Robert Ideson buried 21.1.1756 Westminster. There was also a John & Elizabeth Ideson in St James parish as early…

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Imhose & Co artificial florist 38 Poland St 1790 Wakefield's directory / John Imhose from St Clements age 7 bur 4.4.1799 St Paul Covt Gdn / Edward Frederick Imhose engraver Lambeth 1849

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Robert Jackson ratebooks 10 Poland St 1795 / Richard Jackson ratebooks 10 Poland St 1797 / Sun Fire 1797 Jackson upholder 10 Poland St /  Robert Jackson cabinet maker Rupert St Haymarket 1774 voted Percy & Clinton, SunFire 1777, 1780 there (note cabinetmaker was same trade as upholder) / Robert Jackson Berwick St 1780 voted Fox  / Robert Jackson = St James 31.1.1772  Charlotte Green / Robert Henry bapt 24.1.1788, Robert bapt 25.8.1792 St James sons of Robert & Charlotte Jackson / Richard base born son of…

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William Jackson 61 Poland St Doane's 1794 played violin & horn with New Musical Fund, Royal Circus & 2nd regt Guards. Highfill Burnim & Langhans dictionary fl 1784-1815

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48, and Poland Street 19 to 44, in London Addresses dataset

Archibald Johnston 15 Poland St ratebooks 1791-3 / 19 Poland St rate books 1793-5 / Morning Chronicle 4.6.1793 Archibald Johnston cabinet maker & upholder, after fire in Poland St on 1.6.1793, now at no 19 / Archibald Johnston of St James = St Geo Han Sq 1.5.1791 Catharine Allan otp by lic wit Elizabeth Allan / will PCC 1818 Archibald Johnston paperhanger of Ludgate Hill was probably not him,  as there was a lease dated 1783 to Archibald Johnston of Ludgate Hill (London Met Arch)…

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SunFire 1777 Cheret Jones Esq Poland St / Ratebooks 3 Poland St Cheret Jones 1781 / Cheret Jones Ensign and Standard Bearer to Yeomen of the Guard £300 p.a. / will PCC 1790 of Snaresbrook / will of father Cheret Jones of St James  PCC 1770 dated 2.7.1759 mentioned wife Joanna sons John & Cheret / will of mother Joanna Jones of Poland St PCC 1778 dated 1770 mentioned son John, his wife Carey and dau Maria, and son Cheret

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Daniel Jones Poland St voted 1780 Rodney & Lincoln / Daniel Jones wid of St James marriage license 31.8.1769 Elizabeth Jones wid of Lambeth / Daniel Jones carpenter St Marylebone took appr 1770 /  Daniel Jones adult bur 29.3.1781 St Martin i t Fields / Catherine dau of Daniel & Catherine Jones bapt 8.1.1787 St James / Margaret dau of Daniel & Margaret Jones bapt 17.6.1787 St James also Mary 1789, Ann 1791, Jane 1793 of Daniel & Margaret Jones, St James / Daniel Jones Chandler St, St Geo Han Sq voted 1780…

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Moneylending ads for Mr Jones 66 Newman St recently removed from Wells Street in World 7.12.1790 to 12.1.1791, then 3 Newman St in World 8.12.1791 to Daily Advertiser 9.1.1794. His landlady at 3 Newman St must have been Ann Dewse (QV*). In Morning Herald 3.7.1782 a Mr Jones moneylender advertised from 61 South Molton St

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Robert Jones 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1786-7 / coroners jury 16.9.1785 victualler Poland St / SunFire victualler Kings Arms Poland St 1787 / lots of other Robert Jones victuallers in London, nearest one to Poland St found Robert Jones victualler of Wardour St Soho voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon

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John Joy 33 Poland St ratebooks 1788-9 / ratebooks Brewer St, St James 1790-2 / John Joy = St James 20.10.1775 Sophia Sturt botp banns wits Ann Bader her mark, John Hartstaff / SunFire 1795 56 Hatton Garden John Joy Esq

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William Kettle of Poland St Soho signed (as witness) release at Middlesex Sessions 7.9.1795 / Middlesexs Sessions7.9.1789 affidavit of William Kettle clerk to Messrs Fletcher & Nicholls attornies of Gerrard St Soho

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No 10 Castle St East Land Tax 1796-1798 Messrs Kingdon & Davis 1800-1805 Peter Kingdon

SunFire 1792 Peter Kingdon & Richard Davis perfumers 402 Oxford St (Charles Braxtone gent, owner?) / Peter Kingdom bach otp = 20.7.1798 St Marylebone by lic Ann Stanley wid otp wits Elenr & Heny Masburne Marr Lic 19.7.1798 PK perfumer (and), 21 yrs & upwards. (A Joseph Kingdon had married an Ann Stanley 2.8.1792 St Giles Cripplegate) / will PCC Peter Kingdon of Enfield Highway wife Ann nephews Wm Toutt (?), Wm…

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No 5 Castle Street East Land Tax 1791-1796 Rasmus Kleboe

Mr Kleboe of Castle St was a benefactor of Ossulston Hospital between 1787 and 1791 / 1806 Erasmus Kleboe Gerrard St Soho  (London Lives) / Helen Maria dau of Erasmus & Bergette Maria Kleboe was born 24.5.1803 and bapt at St Anne Soho 8.6.1803 / Erasmus K adult and Elizabeth K child were both buried there 10.6.1803 / Andreas Christian Kleboe appr to Stationers Coy 1809 (bbti.bham.ac.uk) married 18.7.1817 Charlotte Hudson at St George Bloomsbury by…