see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p71-82



Jane dau of Joseph & Frances France bapt 27.10.1755 St Andrew Holborn

Jane dau of Joseph & Frances France bapt 26.9.1762 St Dunstan i t West born 11.9.1762

Joseph son of Joseph & Frances France bapt 2.2.1766 St Dunstan i t West born 3.1.1766

Robert son of Joseph & Frances France bapt 5.5.1768 St Dunstan i t West born 17.4.1768

Middlesex Journal 14.9.1776 house of Mr France breeches maker in Bell Yard on fire, no damage

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p 88 (according to Place, Bury was one of his father's cronies, a gentlemanly man in some government office, who died poor and miserable in the extreme. An unnamed woman whom Place perhaps implied was Bury's mistress kept a lace and fringe shop for him in the Strand between Arundel and Norfolk Streets. Place said that Bury "sold" her daughter at age 14. At 15 the daughter had a child, at 17 she married a young man who went to the West Indies, made money, then came home and died. The daughter lived on his money but later became a prostitute.

see Autobiography of Francis Olace, ed. Mary Thale p. 53-4 (in Greyhound Court where Place learned to turn and file) Place made a simple error calling him Cuthbertson. There was indeed a John Cuthbertson, mathematical, philosophical and optical instrument maker c.1743-1821 who worked in Amsterdam in the 1770s and 1780s and then returned to London, trading in Shoe Lane Holborn and then Poland Street. However the mathematical instrument maker in Greyhound Court was David Cuthbert

see Francis Place's Autobiography p 42 (Place's schoolmaster)



Francis Bowis tailor Holywell Street voted Vandeput 1749

Francis Bowis taylor of St Clement Danes wid marr. lic 12.2.1750 Mary Sutton of Holborn wid at St Bride's

Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 22.12.1751 St Clement Danes

John son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 4.3.1753 St Clement Danes

Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 15.9.1758 St Clement Danes

Mary Bowis (adult) buried 8.3.1759 St Clement Danes

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 42. (rival school to Place's schoolmaster John Bowis)



John Rule will PCC 22.11.1775 Stepney



William Bird schoolmaster 59 Fetter Lane & James Fergusson & Thomas Swanson Tower St, Wapping, executors of John Rule, SunFire 1779, 1780, 1786

William Bird Fetter Lane broker Wakefields directory 1790

William Bird 3 Bond Stables, Fetter Lane, academy Holdens directory 1790

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 88 (leather stainer & dresser)

William Bayley Soho ratebooks Little Newport St south 1781 £32 1787 £34

William Bayley leatherseller Newport St Soho  voted 1784 Hood & Wray 1788 Townshend 1790 Fox

John Bayley breeches maker Duchy Lane, St Mary le Strand voted 1788 Townshend

see Francis Place's Autobiography, ed. Mary Thale p 136 (1795 her husband had been dead about a year, had a considerable trade in gloves, also breeches. Two foremen, in charge of breeches was Irishman McDonald)



William Barnes = St George Bloomsbury 22.1.1781 Hannah Beechey botp banns sigs wit Hannah Willcockberton

William Barnes glover, breeches maker 7 Orange St, Bloomsbury, Andrews Directory 1790

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 94, 111, 119, 123-8

perhaps Robert s of Benjamin & Ann Allison bapt 7.1.1753 Hartburn, Northumberland

or           Robert s of Robert Allison                bapt 9.7.1753 Whitburn, Northumberland

perhaps Robert Allison appr 7 yrs from 28.12.1771 to James Gladstains of Alnwick shoemaker, premium £2.10s

4.12.1807 call on West / 5.12.1807 again / 28.3.1811 write to West / 12.7.1811 West of Cork calls / 13.7.1811 again / 1.1.1812 write to West / 20.3.1812 write to West / 23.4.1812 write to West (Cork) / 29.6.1812 write to West / 28.11.1812 again / 13.3.1813 again / 4.10.1813 again / 7.3.1814 write to West-Grinstead / 12.12.1814 call on S West / 24.11.1815 call on West (Leather-seller)