Help reading fire insurance policy please

[quiffdo]

Hello all

I hoping that someone may be able to help me work out what this document reads.

Any help would be great

Danny

[Phoenix]

On his household goods goods wearing apparel printed books & plate on his now dwelling house only situate as aforesaid Brick & timber two hundred pounds

[guybrush]

Here's my interpretation:

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

[quiffdo]

Thankyou Pheonix

Do you think this looks like the type of thing a Goldsmith, Jeweller and Master Clock and Watchmaker would be able to afford?

Danny

[quiffdo]

Thankyou Guybrush

The street Im sure is Church Street.

Danny

[Little Nell]

I think the address is Church Street Hoxton.

I think £200 is the amount insured. The payment is 6/-.

[Phoenix]

Oh dear. I think the address is Chart Street?

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.

[quiffdo]

So this William Pote is definately of an older age and not somebody who could be 30ish?

Danny

[Just Barbara]

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"

[Phoenix]

"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)

[Olde Crone Holden]

Chart St.

OC

[quiffdo]

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.

Danny

[Jill on the A272]

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)

[Olde Crone Holden]

Where was he living in 1841 and who was living at Chart St?

OC

[quiffdo]

Jill

What did your ancestor do for a living?

OC

William was living in Roseberry place on the 1841 census and it was a William in Chart street.

Danny

[Jill on the A272]

Hi Danny, he was a grocer (Jonathan Hawes) and had Sun Life policies from about 1817.

[quiffdo]

Ahhh yes it was a Sun Life policy.

Do you happen to know if it was a nice area of Hackney?

Danny

[Jill on the A272]

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.

[quiffdo]

Thankyou Jill

Danny