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Title: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: David Corn on Saturday 01 June 24 06:37 BST (UK)

Hi All,

I have family that lived in Parsons Court, in the Parish of St Brides, in the 1841 census. St Brides church is of course off Fleet St in London. Parsons Court appears to have been off Bride lane which runs into New Bridge Street (it is not indicated on maps today).

There were 18 people at the address including two other families and there appears to be 8 dwellings in Parsons Court.

Does anyone know more about Parsons Court and the circumstances of those living there? Am I right in assuming that these dwellings were perhaps part of the church complex?

Many Thanks - David

Title: Re: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 01 June 24 06:43 BST (UK)

Have you checked Charles Booth’s poverty map?

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/15/-0.1024/51.5138/100/0?marker=531495,181098

Title: Re: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 01 June 24 06:47 BST (UK)

Several of this type of advertisement in the 1830s

Title: Re: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: hanes teulu on Saturday 01 June 24 09:23 BST (UK)

The Examiner, 6 Sep 1835 (check out Cogers Hall (note - no "d")

Title: Re: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: Watson on Saturday 01 June 24 10:20 BST (UK)

"Before the Great Fire there was a parsonage house in Bride's Lane, long since leased out by the Church of Westminster, which hath the impropriation and parsonage.  It is now divided into several tenements.  That place is now called Parson's Court."

(H.B. Wheatley, London Past and Present, Volume III, 1891, page 36)

Title: Re: Parsons Court St Brides
Post by: David Corn on Monday 03 June 24 04:40 BST (UK)

Thanks all for your thoughts and Watson for a clue.

I will continue researching this.

David