Ancestry London Look Up

[Richard]

Cany anyone do me a favour, and find baptism details etc for a:

John Thomas Morton, born around 1828 Oxford Street, Hanover Sq, London

Mother Elizabeth.

Thanks

[TrevorFranklin]

Name: John Thomas Morton
Mother: Elizabeth Morton
Father: John Morton
4 Apr 1830 - Westminster, London

[Richard]

Thanks Trevor, that could be him, is there a fathers occupation at all?

[TrevorFranklin]

Thanks Trevor, that could be him, is there a fathers occupation at all?

Too poor to read

[Richard]

Thanks anyway Trevor. I have a feeling he might be illegitimate in any case, as he is on all census 1841 on alone with his mother, and they are buried together, no sign of a father, and can't find any likely marriage for a John Morton and Elizabeth in London.

[TrevorFranklin]

Thanks anyway Trevor. I have a feeling he might be illegitimate in any case, as he is on all census 1841 on alone with his mother, and they are buried together, no sign of a father, and can't find any likely marriage for a John Morton and Elizabeth in London.

It looks like abode of father is Great Chesterfield, this is in Hertfordshire, near Bishop's Stortford.
Profession could be Baker

[Uncle John]

Great Chesterford, perhaps?

[TrevorFranklin]

Thanks John
mine was a typo [late night]

Trev

[Richard]

Looking at the image I think it is 'Chesterfield'. On google maps, there is a 'Chesterfield Street' in Westminster today, I wonder if it refers to this, and that it may have previously been 'Gt Chesterfield Street'. Edit: solved.

[Richard]

It is "Great Chesterfield Street" now renamed 'Wheatley Street", Marylebone parish.

[TrevorFranklin]

Glad to have provided you with one more piece of your Jigsaw.

I have the same thing in my Poole line.
My Gt Grandfather Denis Poole was born in the workhouse, no father's name on the birth certificate and the records for that workhouse were destroyed in a fire.

Two possible fathers, but no way of confirming this.

[Richard]

Do appreciate it Trevor.

I think I may have actually been wrong about him being illegitimate, I have noticed on the Census his auntie is in the house with them twice, and has same birth place as the mother 'Tottenham'. She is single and surname 'Davies'. I cannot find a marriage on IGI for a 'John Morton' and "Elizabeth Davies". I think that baptism is likely his, he gives his birth place as Oxford Street, and St George Hanover Square on the census, and 'Great Chesterfield Street" is fairly near to both. Only slight niggle is that baptism seems to suggest a baby born that year March 1830. He is very consistent on his age on all the census which puts it more 1827/28. He was down as 69 on his death cert in Sep 1897.

He seems very attached to the 'Morton' name as he named his daughter Esther Morton Morton. At first I thought this must be an error, but it is on both her birth and marriage certs. It then dawned on me he must have done this so she would keep his name even after marriage...foward thinking man obviously! Whether this was because of his attatchment or to ensure she got her share of any inheritence smoothly (he left a fortune of roughly 42 million in todays money!) I can't be sure.