Hello Rootschat
Please help.
This started out as:
"Trying to find an address Wimpole House, Wharton Road, Hammersmith in 1883 – believe occupant was John P Fleming and that he may have been a private investigator, does the house or road still exist as been unable to find on a map".
So far have found:
Charles Booth Survey
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/17/-0.2176/51.5002/100/0?marker=523819.0,179422.0Look up Bolingbroke Road, Wharton Road is close by on the map
Wharton Road is now Lakeside Road
1878 LONDON ELECTORAL REGISTER
Professor Of Languages
Name: Capt Charles Francis D’Arbois
Publication Year: 1878
Address: Burlington House
Residence Place: Middlesex, England
Occupation: School
1883 IRISH TIMES
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001683/18831204/068/0002Militia Military Competitive and Promotion Examinations (Army and Auxiliary Forces).—Lieutenant-Colonel L. Hay Shaw (late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) and Captain Ch. D’Arbois (late French Engineers) prepare for above. Officers are received at any time. Apply Wimpole House, Wharton Road. West Kensington Park, W. 28 sent up for Militia Military Competition. 19 successful. -{Advt]
1890 LONDON ELECTORAL REGISTER
Name: Francis Charles D’Arbois
Year: 1890
County or Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
Ward or Division/Constituency: Hammersmith
Street address: 64 Wharton Road
1890 MORNING POST
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18900426/003/0002MILITIA COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION September 1890 A captain late of the engineers is prepared to coach privately candidates for the above, highest references, average marks obtained by last 13 pupils, topography, military law, fortification, tactics, Address F R E 11 Wharton Road
1892 LONDON ELECTORAL REGISTER
Name: Francis D’Arbois
Year: 1892
County or Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
Ward or Division/Constituency: Hammersmith
Street address: 11 Wharton Road, no No.64 exists
1894 Death
Name: Francis Charles D’arbois
Estimated birth year: abt 1825
Registration Year: 1894
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Age at Death: 69
Registration district: Kensington
1911 Census
James Donald Hay Shaw
Captain Royal Marine Artillery
Portsmouth
1939 National Register
Commandant Hospital For Officers, Brighton
James Donald Hay Shaw totally disabled ex-officer
Please do you know anything further on the above.
Have not been able to find anything about the elusive private detective, if he even is a private detective or if Wimpole House was a mansion or just a named residential house?