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For anyone else out there who is ineterested, this mission was set up in Battersea in 1892. The buildings which still exist today as Caius House, Harroway Road are shortly to be pulled down and a new Community and Youth Centre still to be called Caius House will be built on the land. My...

Hello im wondering if anyone could please help a friend of mine his name is William O'driscoll and he would like to find out some history of his father he has heard through family memories that his father was killed while on fire watch having been blown of a roof he does not know where this...

I am trying to locate a shop in Islington London 'Ames and Dean' which I believe existed in the early 1900 to 1930's. I am also trying to find my great grandfather between 1920 and 1932. He is called Alec Ashley Ames and lives in 20 London Street, Islington in 1918. His wife Ada Louise dies in 1920...

Have finally tracked down the death of one of my birdstuffing Halls. Apparently he committed suicide in Jan 1860. Although two of his children were buried at Abney Park Cemetary, there is no sign of this Thomas Hall on the index. I know that this was effectively the successor to the non...

Can someone please help identify the most likely workhouse for an 1852 birth. The child was baptised in Streatham Hill Christ Church by the workhouse rector. In 1851 the family were living in Brixton but I cannot identify the address given on the Parish Record. It looks like 'Retreat'

I have relations in the Guinness Buildings in Bermondsey and am try to locate the area of Bermondsey was in. Also any information about the history or type of accommodation. There seem to be a number of Guinness Buildings around is there any special in the name? Regards Phil

Researching information for Henry David Mudd . Henry, also known better by Harry, was born in 1905 Fulham.With assitance from a workhouse in London, he immigrated to Canada in 1922 aboard the ship Montcaim.After arriving in Canada he made his way to Belleville Ontario , there he took residence at...

I wonder if anyone can help me. I would like to find the whereabouts or death certificate for a great grandfather Thomas Goodfellow who was listed on his daughter's pauper school records between 1897 and 1904 as being 'In House.' I know from the 1891 census and his daughter's records he resided in...

|help| I have recently acquired a school concert program in which my aunt is a performer. I am trying to locate the place and date and wondered if any of the names are familiar to any forum members. My aunt was born in 1915 at Herne Bay and matriculated in 1934, and later worked, in London. I do...

A friend in Canada has asked my help in locating this London address of at least 1930. It doesn't appear on my modern A=Z of London, and isn't indexed in my A-Z of Victorian London. My London knowledge isn't good enough without an index to assist. Can anyone help us, please? A modern location of...

My maternal grandmother was born to German migrant parents in Fulham in 1881. She married in 1900 and from the birth and death certificates of her various children, all 11 of them, I have been able to place her in the Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Wandsworth and Putney areas. After the accidental...

Thank you in advance..My Great Grandfather George Sturgeon was at one time Verger and Ward Beadle at St Bartholomews The Great..My Grandmothers brother Isaac John Sturgeon married the 6th September 1919 at St Barts to Ethel May Clover and it states Fathers profession for Isaac as being Verger...

I am trying to find what happened to George William S Plunkett who married Ellen Elizabeth Trueman in Islington in 1905 (1b/453). George WSP was born in Bethnal Green in 1873. There is an Ellen Elizabeth Trueman born in Chorlton (Lancashire?) which could be his wife. A son, Leonard George is...

I cannot visit myself, but would appreciate if SKS could find any further details on these 2 references from the London Metropolitan Archives. Mary Ann Chilvers: Accidental: Burnt Reference Code: MJ/SP/C/W/1150 From Collection: Middlesex Sessions of the Peace: Court in Session 1829/1830 ...