1697

[joboy]

Burials Tower Hamlets St Mary's Whitechapel 1697
25 Sept John Tutching
26 Sept Ann Tutchin
in each entry what are the other words ......
Joe

[Koromo]

Looks like: 25 John Tutching a child from Lemon Street near Prescot Street

 … with a long s in Prescot.  I can't make out the second one — Lemon Street near the Barber ... .

By chance I have an 1801 map showing Lemon St, which later became Leman St.

K.

[PrueM]

Hi Joe,

To me, the second one looks like "a child from Lemon Street near the Barbers polla".  If the word IS "polla" (I'm not sure it is) then I wonder whether it means "pole".  Still doesn't make sense - why would they not just write shop instead of pole? 

Cheers
Prue

[Archivos]

Yes, it does look like Barbers pulla.  There was a barber's on Lemon Street, it's mentioned in one of the Old Bailey transcripts but it doesn't say anything more about it! 

See here - http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F17370526.xml (I then did a page search for 'lemon'.)

[veeblevort]

OED provides 'pulle' although not 'pulla' as obsolete for 'pole'.

A barber's pole would be highly visible in the street, being
coloured with a spiral of red and white stripes. (Originally
the poles are said to have been wrapped with blood-soaked
bandages to advertise the barber's bloodletting and minor
surgery services). I remember these poles from my own childhood,
although of course painted, not bandaged! Some were motorised
to rotate and be even more visible.