Francis Place's connections

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Thos Woollams of Barbers Co. took apprentice William Woollams 1756

William Woollams = St Andrew by the Wardrobe 20.9.1773 Catherine Cox both of St Ann Blackfriars banns sigs wits Joseph & Sarah Knight
Susanna dau of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 28.2.1774 St Clement Danes buried there 3.1.1775 consumption
William son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 3.5.1775 St Clement Danes
James son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 26.6.1778 St Clement Danes

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Henry Wood otp = St Martin i t Fields 14.5.1775 by Archbishops lic Sarah Holland otp sigs wits Saml Tooth, S Ealand

Henry Wood carpenter Thackhams Court, St Martin i t Fields voted 1780 Fox, 1784 Fox. Westminster coroner's juryman 25.8.1786

Henry Wood buried 26.5.1800 St Martin i t Fields from workhouse. Admitted workhouse 21.2.1800 age 59 died 23.5.1800

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 118. Place cleaned breeches of Willis, son of painter & glazier in Essex Street, Willis junior was in partnership with landlord of Crown & Anchor. Place found a half guinea in his pocket, borrowed it overnight and returned it telling the whole truth. Willis never employed him again.

John Willis son of John Willis of St Clement Danes coal dealer apprenticed 1742 to James Simpson of the Glaziers Co.

see Autobiography of Francis Place, ed. Mary Thale pages x, 142 n1, 175,176, 188-193, 207, 210 n*, 224

Possibly born 4.4.1765 bapt 14.4.1765 son of Joseph & Ann  Wild at St Mary Ealing. No records of his brother Gregory found.

Richard Wild otp = St Geo Han Sq 29.9.1799 Sarah Atkins otp banns sigs wits Robt Atkins, Eleanor Swannick

Old Bailey 17.2.1802 Richard Wild tailor 29 Charing Cross, his errand boy Charles Hurd

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale pages 86 and 87. Ousted Simon Place from his pub

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 54. Where Place learnt to use a saw

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p.87. There spelt Skillem but this may have been a transcription error. Perhaps a fairly common error which led to Place thinking the name was spelt and pronounced with an 'm'. Of the various friends of his father's whose lives Place believed ended in poverty (he mentioned a list of 27) eight are named on pages 87 and 88 but four of those, including Skillern, seem to have owned property at their deaths (the others were Bury, Robinson and Woollams).

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 88

John Seldon = St Clement Danes 15.5.1763 Ann Batty
William son of John & Ann Seldon bapt St Clement Danes 1.4.1764
John son of John & Ann Seldon bapt St Clement Danes 9.8.1767
Sarah dau of John & Ann Seldon bapt St Clement Danes 27.11.1768
Ann Batty dau of John & Ann Seldon bapt St Clement Danes 18.6.1770
Ann dau of John & Ann Seldon bapt St Clement Danes 13.6.1773

see Autobiography of Francis Place page 87

William Robinson buried Epsom 9.1.1780 will PCC 12.1.1780 dated 22.12.1779 painter of St Clement Danes mentioned late wife and present wife Ann, house in Water Street and house in Pimlico, owned other houses in Pimlico & elsewhere which he left to his various children, sons John & William, and daughters Sarah, Alice, Eleanor Stevens and Elizabeth Stevenson. Also mentioned brother John, sisters Jane, Eleanor, Margaret and Alice Ashley, cousin James Robinson of Bromley, Middlesex, and mother-in-law Sarah Robinson.

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale pages 121, 123-5

Matthew Stimson bach = St Giles Cripplegate 9.11.1763 martha Amery sp botp
Martha Ann Stimson born 29.7.1767 bapt 6.8.1767 Endell St Lying-in Hospital dau of Matthew age 27 swordcutter & Martha discharged 13.8.1767 recommender Catherine Macaulay
Martha bapt 20.2.1774 St Sepulchre dau of Matthew Stimson & Martha
Mary Ann Stimson born 22.12.1775 bapt 14.1.1776 St Sepulchre dau of Matthew Stimson & Martha