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I mentioned in a comment on one of my posts last week about my 2x Great Grandfather who was a rag merchant who died owning the freehold on 5 houses in London (4 in Tottenham and 1 in Islington). In some ways he's quite interesting as he's got far fewer descendants than my other ancestors from his generation (he had just 2 daughters, 4 grand-children and 2 great grand-children), so I share him with relatively few cousins.
Here he is listed as a Marine Stores Dealer in the 1901 census living on Southampton St, Clerkenwell (since renamed to Calshot Street N1 - near Kings Cross station). Earlier censuses have him listed as a mixture of Marine Stores Dealer, Rag Sorter and Warehouseman.
When he died in 1936, his occupation had changed to master builder (although as far as I can tell so far he doesn't look to have built these houses) and in his will he left 4 houses to my Great Grandmother and another to her nephew.
- 11 & 13 Cranleigh Road, Tottenham (the family was living in the former in 1911 and 1921)
- 23 & 25 Derby Road, Tottenham (since demolished - now the Stanley-Culross Open Space)
- 21 Upper Park Street, Islington (since renamed to Bewdley St)
Turns out that the Land Registry have a lot more archives for London houses then the rest of the country, so have managed to find some old conveyance documents through an FOI request (suspect they've got other relevant ones, so may have to do another at some point). Also took the opportunity of Nye having a beavers' camp at the beginning of a year to go house-hunting.
( The houses with photos )
Here he is listed as a Marine Stores Dealer in the 1901 census living on Southampton St, Clerkenwell (since renamed to Calshot Street N1 - near Kings Cross station). Earlier censuses have him listed as a mixture of Marine Stores Dealer, Rag Sorter and Warehouseman.
When he died in 1936, his occupation had changed to master builder (although as far as I can tell so far he doesn't look to have built these houses) and in his will he left 4 houses to my Great Grandmother and another to her nephew.
- 11 & 13 Cranleigh Road, Tottenham (the family was living in the former in 1911 and 1921)
- 23 & 25 Derby Road, Tottenham (since demolished - now the Stanley-Culross Open Space)
- 21 Upper Park Street, Islington (since renamed to Bewdley St)
Turns out that the Land Registry have a lot more archives for London houses then the rest of the country, so have managed to find some old conveyance documents through an FOI request (suspect they've got other relevant ones, so may have to do another at some point). Also took the opportunity of Nye having a beavers' camp at the beginning of a year to go house-hunting.
( The houses with photos )
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