I had a really good day today!
I've been collecting things to research in Guildhall library. When I have been to the LMA in the past, some of the things I have wanted to look at haven't been there, but at Guildhall.
I did three things:
1) My Pond/Bond family
Looked at the marriage entry in 1805 at Saint Leonard's Shoreditch for Henry Pond and Mary Plowright and printed it off
Looked at the 1808 birth at St Botolph without Bishopsgate for my ancestor Henry William Pond and printed it off
Found and printed off the marriage entry for Henry William Pond and Eliza Brewer nee Jeffcoat (widow) at St Leonard's Shoreditch
2) OH's Lamb family
Marriage of William Evans Lamb to Margaret Mundy
at All Hallows Staining on 21st September 1779
I looked at the Parish Register and printed out the entry
William was a minor and they got married by Licence
In the afternoon I looked around the library and found an index of marriage bonds
I took it to the librarian and there were two sources to consult
So I have an oath for William to marry Margaret and also a note to say that his father William Lamb from Huntingdon consented to the marriage
(It also told me where Margaret Munday came from (Longleighton in Essex) and her father's name (Philip)
3) OH's ancestor Joseph Newton, a firebrick merchant, from Bankside Southwark was buried at Bunhill Fields
I got to see and pirnt out an entry for the burial, giving various details such as his abode, his age, the undertakers, the plot etc.
I also had time at lunchtime to go from the Guildhall Library (nr Moorgate) and walk along London Wall up to Liverpool Street to meet no. 2 daughter for lunch (she works just behind Liverpool Street Station).
A really good day - I got a direct train from Harpenden at 9.47 arrived about 10.23 at Moorgate and back off-peak on a train at 4.24 and home (in the door) at 5.14. Not bad!
They also have a very good bookshop there and I bought some old maps.
I also found there (quite by accident) a book that my cousin has written, absolutely beautiful!
"Mapping London Making Sense of the City" by Simon Foxell
(He is an architect)
Mapping London: Making Sense of the City - All Books - Black Dog Publishing
My uncle (his father and my godfather) wrote a book about the Great Fire of London, but I think it is out of print.
I've been collecting things to research in Guildhall library. When I have been to the LMA in the past, some of the things I have wanted to look at haven't been there, but at Guildhall.
I did three things:
1) My Pond/Bond family
Looked at the marriage entry in 1805 at Saint Leonard's Shoreditch for Henry Pond and Mary Plowright and printed it off
Looked at the 1808 birth at St Botolph without Bishopsgate for my ancestor Henry William Pond and printed it off
Found and printed off the marriage entry for Henry William Pond and Eliza Brewer nee Jeffcoat (widow) at St Leonard's Shoreditch
2) OH's Lamb family
Marriage of William Evans Lamb to Margaret Mundy
at All Hallows Staining on 21st September 1779
I looked at the Parish Register and printed out the entry
William was a minor and they got married by Licence
In the afternoon I looked around the library and found an index of marriage bonds
I took it to the librarian and there were two sources to consult
So I have an oath for William to marry Margaret and also a note to say that his father William Lamb from Huntingdon consented to the marriage
(It also told me where Margaret Munday came from (Longleighton in Essex) and her father's name (Philip)
3) OH's ancestor Joseph Newton, a firebrick merchant, from Bankside Southwark was buried at Bunhill Fields
I got to see and pirnt out an entry for the burial, giving various details such as his abode, his age, the undertakers, the plot etc.
I also had time at lunchtime to go from the Guildhall Library (nr Moorgate) and walk along London Wall up to Liverpool Street to meet no. 2 daughter for lunch (she works just behind Liverpool Street Station).
A really good day - I got a direct train from Harpenden at 9.47 arrived about 10.23 at Moorgate and back off-peak on a train at 4.24 and home (in the door) at 5.14. Not bad!
They also have a very good bookshop there and I bought some old maps.
I also found there (quite by accident) a book that my cousin has written, absolutely beautiful!
"Mapping London Making Sense of the City" by Simon Foxell
(He is an architect)
Mapping London: Making Sense of the City - All Books - Black Dog Publishing
My uncle (his father and my godfather) wrote a book about the Great Fire of London, but I think it is out of print.
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