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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #9 on: Monday 07 January 19 01:20 GMT (UK) »
Mr H.W. Davison, of Virginia Terrace in 1836.

This may be Horatio Davison, a solicitor who was in Virginia Terrace in 1841 with his father? Richard Davison.  Richard died there aged 71 in 1845 and would have been of the same generation (and social status?) as John Timbrell.  The are plenty of other households though.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #10 on: Monday 07 January 19 01:21 GMT (UK) »
21 households, I’ve just counted them  :)

(Including the registrar of births marriages and deaths)

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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #11 on: Monday 07 January 19 01:26 GMT (UK) »
21 households, I’ve just counted them  :)

(Including the registrar of births marriages and deaths)

Yes, nice to see the registrar there!  Actually there aren’t that many likely authors if one assumes that the “friend” was likely to be male and of similar age and social status to John.  Having said that the inhabitants might have changed significantly between 1837 and 1841.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 09 January 19 23:31 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for all your suggestions, which I’ve been taking a close look at. It appeared from the 1832 and 1842 street directories that Virginia Terrace might have been quite a small street, but the number of families there in the 1841 census (I make it 22 in all - and have transcribed them all) indicates otherwise. The number of property owners who took out fire insurance (as per the TNA records), as well as the number of households where there was more than one servant, suggests that Virginia Terrace was a reasonably prosperous neighbourhood.

I agree that a good candidate for the anonymous author would be the solicitor Horatio William Davison (said to be aged 35 in the 1841 census) or, perhaps more likely, his father, Richard Davison (aged 65 in 1841). The ‘google books’ reference indicates that Horatio was living in Virginia Terrace in 1836 – the year before publication of ‘A History of Winchcombe’ - and the census shows that he was still there in 1841. Indeed, thanks to Ancestry we can see that in his 1833 articles of clerkship Horatio gave his address as Great Dover Street, Southwark, his master being Anthony Brown, solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, of Mincing Lane, City of London. [But that means that HWD would have been about 27 when he commenced his five years of articles, which seems quite old for an apprentice].

I’ve looked in Ancestry, but to no avail, for articles of clerkship for Richard Davison (father of Horatio), but that doesn’t mean he definitely wasn’t a lawyer. The British Newspaper Archives has a few hits for a Richard Davison, attorney, but he was in Ireland. Is there any way of establishing whether a Richard Davison was a London attorney in the late 18th C /early 19th C? Also, are there any maps of Great Dover Street in the first half of the 19th C which might show where Virginia Terrace was?

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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #13 on: Friday 11 January 19 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Have a look here at an old map of London from the mid 1820s https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/ids:8982548

Clip showing Virginia Terrace below. Located below the two Rs (of Dover and Road).

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Re: SEARCHING FOR OCCUPANTS OF VIRGINIA TERRACE IN THE 1830s
« Reply #14 on: Monday 14 January 19 09:33 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Monica. Interesting to see that the map shows Virginia Terrace as a ribbon of properties on the south-west side of Great Dover Road. So it was not really a separate street at all, but simply part of the Great Dover Road (which is sometimes referred to as Great Dover Street or Dover Road).

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