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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: lost London streets, Gone!
« on: Saturday 07 April 12 11:57 BST (UK)  »
A lot of inner London street names were changed between 1929 and 1939. I found this site useful in comparing old names to find the later versions --

http://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/Streets/Street_Name_Changes.htm

My Grandfather lived in Islington at East Place, this changed to Northeast Place and worked in the market in Chapel Street which changed to Chapel Market.
Hope this helps !

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The Common Room / Re: Penny Music Sheets??
« on: Saturday 07 April 12 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Hello everybody -- I'm transcribing some letters written by my Grandfather to my Aunt in the 1930's. He sold sheet music in Chapel Market, Islington. Not very profitable for the poor fellow as one can see from this excerpt!

"Meanwhile, your poor father is having a very rough time with his ‘Music’. This heat wave shut down all the pianos last week and this week and I am facing a very bad patch. It is hardly an over- statement to say that this week was a ‘blank’— no rent; couldn’t even cover my most modest expenses.
There isn’t a favourite song on the market, please Heaven something may happen along soon to give the Music a lift up."

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: lost London streets, Gone!
« on: Saturday 12 July 08 11:18 BST (UK)  »
Hello everybody . . . Thanks for Minster Road stuff . . . I was looking for the same road! My Gr Grandfather & Gr Grandmother were ther 1881 census "Arnold/Moules"
Puzzle solved!    Vernon Maldoom  :)

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: GILES Family
« on: Thursday 26 June 08 12:12 BST (UK)  »
I agree -- all very confusing what with cousins marrying cousins et cetera.
Below is extract of something I have seen on the net --

"Samuel seems to first appear in Wield documents when he marries Elizabeth and he was described as the bailiff at Armsworth. The Armsworth estate straddles the Wield parish boundary with Old Alresford . . . In about 1745, William Evelyn came to Armsworth and Samuel may have come with him to take the position of bailiff. I believe that the Evelyns had Surrey connections so Samuel may have come from that county or from elsewhere in Hampshire  . . .

regards from Vernon

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