Hackney birth request

[davidft]

Thank you for all your replies.

The censuses and marriage are definitely correct. The baptism of Henry also seems to relate to a brother, but what does the Hy in the address "Terrace Hy" stand for?

Hy stands for Hackney. All the records in the baptism register for that period just have Hy for Hackney. Terrace was an area in Hackney but to find out where you will probably need to look at an old map for the period

[Olicana]

Thank you David 

[davidft]

A possible location for Terrace is Homerton Terrace (still exists) that was referred to in this article in 1821 as being a middle class area so one where you might find a merchant

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol10/pp51-59

specifically

The most respectable parts in 1821 were Upper Homerton, (fn. 66) around the later Urswick Road, with 19 merchants or gentry, and Sutton Place, with 15. A few lived nearby in Homerton Row, although most of the 80 householders in its extension Alderman's Walk, which had new cottages, (fn. 67) were tradespeople or labourers; so too were c. 130 in Brooksby's Walk and most of the 79 in 'Homerton', presumably the high street. To the south Homerton Terrace was largely middle-class but Morning Lane with 32 names and Water Lane with 99 were humbler, as were New Cut (later Ball's Buildings and from 1894 Link Street) with 41, Bridge (from 1938 Ponsford) Street with 29, and Shepherd's Lane with 60.

[suzard]

Thank you for all your replies.



Leonard is definitely not Philip West's father, but his brother Philip might be. However, that Philip was probably born or baptised in Sussex in Oct 1786, not in St Nicholas Acons in the City of London as stated in the marriage. Is there any baptism of a Philip Elen in London around 1786 to 1792, which would rule the Sussex Philip out?

 

St Nicholas in the City of London stated in the marriage cert is the place where Phillip was living at the time of marriage - p.o.b. are not given on marriages -just place of residency

Suz

[Olicana]

Thank you David and Suz. I am still not certain that the Sussex Philip is the father - it is just a shot in the dark. Most of the family were in London, so if a suitable birth for a Philip was found in London, he would be more likely to be the father.