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Title: Where is Hughes Fields Middlesex???
Post by: holmes on Wednesday 26 April 06 20:37 BST (UK)

I have details of a marriage on 19 August 1849 at St Giles Church, Middlesex for the bride & groom both resident at Hughes Fields, Middlesex.  Can anyone tell me where Hughes Fields is located?  The 1841 census shows the bride living in Clements Lane.  Would this be close??

Thank you

Title: Re: Where is Hughes Fields Middlesex???
Post by: casalguidi on Wednesday 26 April 06 23:01 BST (UK)

There was a Hughes Fields in St Nicholas, Deptford (in Kent at that time) ??? http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/lon-str.html

Casalguidi

Title: Re: Where is Hughes Fields Middlesex???
Post by: holmes on Thursday 27 April 06 18:00 BST (UK)

Thank you for your reply.  The website looks really interesting. 

It seems Hughes Fields Greenwich may in the vicinity of St Giles in the Fields Church, Middlesex.  St Nicholas may be a nearby church.  Will need to visit to check.  Does anyone have any photos of the churches?

Title: Re: Where is Hughes Fields Middlesex???
Post by: avm228 on Thursday 27 April 06 18:33 BST (UK)

I'm currently very close to St Giles-in-the Fields and it's nowhere near Greenwich! St Giles is very central in London - the church still exists, very close to Centre Point.

A Clements Lane still exists a little bit east of here, in the City (near Monument) but St. Clements Lane really is close to here (Holborn/Kingsway area) and within the St Giles parish.

Hughes Fields doesn't ring any local bells with me, but there were lots of fields with grazing for livestock around here at that time (Lincoln's Inn Fields being the biggest which survives to this day as a square) so perhaps it was a small place which didn't make it into the directories.

HTH

Anna

Title: Re: Where is Hughes Fields Middlesex???
Post by: holmes on Thursday 27 April 06 22:38 BST (UK)

Thank you Anna.  I live in the Midlands so its not easy to see the area for myself. 

I have found a Clements Lane on the London A-Z which seems to be by the Strand and close to St Giles Church.  The bride and her father lived in Clements Lane in 1841. 

This would make sense as the wedding was at St Giles in the Fields Parish church in 1849.  The brides father was an eating house keeper and the groom and the grooms father were both sailors.  Both residences were Hughes Fields.  Its hard to imagine fields in the centre of London.  It would be lovely to have photos or drawings of these places.  Nevermind.

I must make a trip to the city to see for myself.  Thanks again.