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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S.W.) Great Stambridge is a small parish on the estuary of the River Roach, 4 m. N.E. of Southend-on-Sea. The church is the principal monument. … Monuments: In churchyardon N. side, (1) to Samuel, son of Samuel and Sarah Sharp, 1680, head-stone; (2) to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Robert Hillson, mercer of London, by will proved 1585, left a house in Edgware to … 26 s., for 6 pennyworth of bread a week for the poor. His son John, also a clothworker, by will proved 1623, left a … was gradually redeemed for stock between 1909 and 1943. Henry Hooper, by deed of 1850, left four cottages on Stanmore …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was among the possessions recovered by Richard, abbot of St. Albans (d. 1119) 94 and evidently was part of the … the purchaser of Canons, claimed the advowson from Henry, duke of Chandos, 6 but Drummond presented in 1749 and … and a similar sum given by the earl of Aberdeen and his son, the Hon. Douglas Gordon, who was rector from 1848 until …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… which included land for 7 ploughs, pasture for the cattle of the vill, and woodland for 800 pigs. The value had fallen … parishes and comprised both yeomen and gentry. 69 Richard Franklin, who held Fiddles, had a cousin and namesake … and parcels of two others in 1582 and 1583 to his son Warner Norwood. The parcels were held in 1587-8 by Joan …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Introduction GREAT STANMORE Great Stanmore 1 was a parish of 1,441 a. in 1841. 2 It was roughly the shape of an … physician, and William Wigan Harvey (1810-83), divine, son of George Daniel Harvey of Montagues, were natives of the … friend of the royal family, and from c. 1890 of the banker Henry Bischoffsheim (d. 1908), who was often visited there by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Offa, king of Mercia, was said to have included 10 mansiones in Stanmore … I's half-brother Robert, count of Mortain, 48 whose son William had restored them to St. Albans by 1106. 49 The … that it was called the manor of GREAT STANMORE. 51 Abbot Richard (d. 1119) granted the 'town' of Stanmore to Serle and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Stanmore was included in a list of parishes where a meeting-house is said to have been … a house on Stanmore Hill, certified by James John Foster of Edgware, a dissenting teacher, in 1850. 58 Primitive … lunch-time meetings were held for workmen employed by Henry J. Clare, who was building houses in Abercorn Road, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a Roman Catholic priest. In 1597, as the only surviving son, the exiled Edward offered to sell his interest in the … indicted in 1581 and 1582 included Thomas Norwood of Great Stanmore, gentleman, one of the Norwoods of Astwood (Bucks.) and Ashwell (Herts.), …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… In 1637 the lord agreed to a request that about one acre of land on Stanmore Common should be inclosed as a bowling … called the assembly room passed from John Snoxall to his son Joseph Ironmonger Snoxall in 1764 and to Joseph's son … in 1813 it was bought from his executors by the surgeon Richard Andrews, who leased it out for 21 years in 1847. The …
Survey of London
… Street area. The broken red line indicates the extent of the former Charterhouse estate The grid of streets south … of Whitwellbeach and Copthall eventually passed to his son, who seems to have overseen some development. An estate … including the vicar of St James's, Clerkenwell, the Rev. Henry Foster. In 18045 the antiquary and topographer John …