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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Curzon St Mayfair 1901
« on: Tuesday 28 January 20 11:39 GMT (UK)  »
Those transcriptions are hilariously awful. Hooray for directories! And thanks so much for the info, very useful to have the right house at last.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Curzon St Mayfair 1901
« on: Tuesday 28 January 20 10:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Shaun, very kind of you! No worries If you don't have time to answer, but it would be really great to know if the chap listed in the PO directory is the same as the tenant of the house in 1901 (which will hopefully tie down the number for me)? And are the servants listed just as domestic servants, or with specific titles?

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Curzon St Mayfair 1901
« on: Monday 27 January 20 23:38 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find the names of the servants in a particular house in 1901, but I think the street numbering may have been different then. Looking at the 1895 map, it's on the south side of Curzon St in the block between Chapel St East and Half Moon St, and it's the fourth house along from Chapel St East, going east - currently #41, but maybe not in 1901! Very grateful for any help.

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London and Middlesex / Re: The mystery of St James, Paddington (any London burials experts out there?)
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Thank you! LizzieL's post was particularly helpful:
>I suspect that when the new parish church was built, the registers transferred and the older records were labelled as St J when the event actually happened in St M.

Sounds very plausible. Off to see if any monument inscriptions for St Mary's exist.  :)

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London & Middlesex Resources / Some great details about burials at St George Bloomsbury (link)
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 10:47 BST (UK)  »
https://www.academia.edu/2549870/In_the_vaults_beneath._Archaeological_recording_at_St_Georges_Church_Bloomsbury

This contains a wealth of detail, recorded during the vault clearance in 2009, on many of the people who were buried here, with names, inscriptions and even coffin plates. Burials date from 1804. You need an academia.edu account to read it, but it's free to anyone, not just people at academic institutions.

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London and Middlesex / The mystery of St James, Paddington (any London burials experts out there?)
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 10:37 BST (UK)  »
So I have multiple relatives apparently buried, according to their records, at the church of St James, Paddington, in the 1740s and 50s.
But according to wikipedia, said church was built in 1841! And was an entirely new church, not a replacement for an old one. Yet apparently, parish records exist for it dating back to 1655.

Where might my relatives actually have been buried?

Thanks!

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Hull wills
« on: Thursday 24 May 18 14:19 BST (UK)  »
Ah, that's marvellous. Thank you very much!

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Hull wills
« on: Thursday 24 May 18 13:31 BST (UK)  »
Not him, although he is in the list, mistranscribed as Benjamin Ward (his surname was Waide/Wade)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Hull wills
« on: Thursday 24 May 18 13:12 BST (UK)  »
How would one go about finding a will for someone who died in Hull in 1722? I'm fairly sure he must have had one, he was Mayor at one point.
(NB: I can't get to Yorkshire)

Many thanks!

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