On his household goods goods wearing apparel printed books & plate on his now dwelling house only situate as aforesaid Brick & timber two hundred pounds
Phoenix - with charred feathers Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
William Pote of 159 Chac?? Street Hoxton
Gent
On his household goods ???? shea?ing appaid
printed books & plate in his now dwelling
house only situate as aforesaid Brick &
timber two hundred pounds
He's describing himself as a gentleman, Which presumably means that whateever his former trade was (that's a domestic, not a business insurance) he has retired from it.
Phoenix - with charred feathers Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
I think it's Cart street as well, also, the trades were all ones which required money, maybe that's why he felt able to move himself up a social class and become a "gentleman"
"Your" William Pote is a goldsmith in 1841. Does he have children by then? If so, do you have births/baptisms for them? Are there any addresses?
Was that a one-off insurance policy, or were there others?
The short answer is, you cannot tell, on the face of things, whether this is "your" William Pote. If the address were identical, then it propbably is, or a close family member.
He might call himself a gentleman in 1833, but subsequently be forced to take up a trade. (Or simply have had delusions of grandeur)
Phoenix - with charred feathers Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
He did have kids on the 1841 census and I have just this second ordered the cert for the 1st kid born after 1837 which was 1838 in Hackney which luckily is in the Hoxton area.
Just have to wait and see now if he is living in Church/Chart street.
There's still a Chart Street in Hoxton (and there was a Great Chart Street connecting with Pitfield Street (where one of my ancestors who had a similar insurance policy lived)
I was there just after Christmas, its difficult to tell as there have been a lot of changes I think it would have been quite mixed, but Haberdashers Askes school is just up the road in Pitfield street, and the church in Pitfield Street is elegant - you can see the area on the new Google Street.
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