Street in Islington?

[bugbear]

I have a baptism, 23 Aug 1885 at Clerkenwell St Paul, Islington, England

(ref: London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p76/pau2/003)

I cannot work out the "abode"; my best reading of the 2 cells is

"27 Probarb", "Carman", with "23 July 1885" written across the 2 cells as DOB.

Checking the street index for Islington shows nothing even similar to Probarb.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Place:Islington_Registration_District,_1871_Census_Street_Index_P-R

  BugBear

[BumbleB]

27 Probart (Street)  and Carman is the occupation.

[ShaunJ]

I don't think there was a Probart Street. There was a Prebend Street - perhaps mistranscribed?

[avm228]

I don't think there was a Probart Street. There was a Prebend Street - perhaps mistranscribed?

I wondered that - but then one wouldn't expect a family living on Prebend St to be baptising at St Paul's Clerkenwell.

[ShaunJ]

It's a 20 minute walk from Prebend Street to St Paul's in Pear Tree Street. All in the parish of Islington.

[Bookbox]

The church was in Pear Tree Street. The birth was registered in Shoreditch, so maybe they moved to Islington between birth and baptism?

[avm228]

Have you got the address at birth?

[jonw65]

27 Provost Street was suggested in January
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=785632.msg6407364#msg6407364

It's a complicated story by the look of it! But the 1885 electoral register does have a Thomas Cross at 27 Provost Street, Hoxton.

[bugbear]

It's a complicated story by the look of it! But the 1885 electoral register does have a Thomas Cross at 27 Provost Street, Hoxton.

Even better, he's under his full name of "Thomas Mark Cross" at number 25 by 1887. So "Provost" it is. Thanks to all.

 BugBear