harrison's yard

[ladyholme]

I have studied the marriage cert again  and it still looks like Harrison to me...I have asked one other person and they simply made up a ridiculous sound!...not at all helpful. I have another possability and that was that the person who did the entry made an error in the 'condition' section...they had put in the address and then scribbled it out....I think it says 28 before the Harrison's Yard, then 'Highgate' after.

I also looked up all the other addresses for the family...as it was rather large as was the norm in those days. Loads of them were living at 57 Highgate, some at 17 Entry Lane, 10 Kirkland and finally at Yew Trees.

It is interesting and reassuring that Shaun has come up with a Jonathan Savage, a sack maker at Harrison's yard....there just must have been a place by that name somewhere in Highgate. I can only assume it was a short lived name.... the mystery continues... 

I shall ask some 'more sensable' people what they make of the address...I was thinking I should take it to a pharmacist....if they can read doctors writing on prescriptions then they should make something out of this!!! 

[LizzieW]

..I was thinking I should take it to a pharmacist....if they can read doctors writing on prescriptions then they should make something out of this!!!

Only problem with that idea is that most prescriptions are computer generated nowadays. 

Liz

[ladyholme]

I shall need to choose a very old pharmacist then won't I Lizzie!!!? 

[adrian denney]

http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/kendal-wainwrightsyard.htm    try this   but mum thinks it was called white lions yard .            but not highgate     the other interesting one to google is  "titus wilson " highgate kendal    this was at 28 highgate          need to find what was there before  titus wilson's !!!!!!!!!   

still looking 

[ladyholme]

Thanks Adrian,

Titus Wilson!!!! With a name like that I won't be showing the family!....the reason is simple...I have loads of Wilson's in my history and I can imagine the nickname that might follow me if they caught a glimpse of the 'Titus' bit!!!! It was bad enough when someone found a gruesome doll in a shop window called 'evil Lyn'!!! I suppose there was every good chance that these yards changed names from time to time.... perhaps because of the different occupations that people brought into them and also who the yard actually belonged too... Thanks again Adrian

[ChrisWest]

Hi Lyn,

I don't know if you've found it yet, but on Henry Hoggarth's map of 1853 Wm Fred Harrison has a yard on the east side of Highgate (odd numbers) opposite the Shakespeare Tavern, which Adrian has probably frequented on numerous occasions!

Regards

Chris

[adrian denney]

mmmmmmmmmmm   the shakespear is a really good pub !!!!    so its across the road  are there the names of the yards on either side

[genjen]

The Shakey isn't on my list of best pubs in Kendal but if I go into town tomorrow - and I almost certainly will do, I'll see if there are any yard names opposite. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any but it's amazing what you don't see when you live in a place.

Jen

Tragically, the Ring of Bells, The Cock and Dolphin and The Bowman have all closed.

[adrian denney]

mmmmmmmmmmm noticed  when in kendal last month      there is miler and moser yard that  is next to the new pram shop (margarets )      and yard 57 i think is tanners yard .   my mum lives at the bottom of booths carpark  but all her friends (oaps)  have no idea  where this yard was.
the ring o bells was the pub where my grandfather walker denney  played dominoes  the bowman was the bishop's blaze i think    this still has me puzzled as to which yard could be harrisons