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Somerset / Re: I Might Be Able to Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Saturday 16 February 13 23:37 GMT (UK)  »
mxmar0

just checking in - your request is proving more difficult than I hoped. Just to let you know I haven't given up, plenty more avenues left yet. I'm still on the case and will let you know how it goes! Sorry it's taking a while.
I'll keep digging for your names and looking into the possibility of a connection with Pearsalls.

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Somerset / Re: I Might Be Able to Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Thursday 17 January 13 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
mxmar0

Paul's Meeting House was the name of the church - the street was formerly known as Pole Street, possibly because this was an area where tanners stretched their products to dry, also in nearby 'Tenter Fields'. It has corrupted to Paul Street. The chapel was never dedicted to St Paul, independent chapels are non-conformist and don't dedicate in this way. The chapel simply took the name from its location. The parish in which Paul Street lies is Taunton St. Mary's. The chapel itself was founded by Joseph Alleine in 1662. The current building, which is now named the United Reformed Church, dates from 1797, and is the building your Richard Pearsall Allen would have known. I will get to work looking for details of these individuals, give me a few days.
The given name 'Pearsall' is interesting - the Pearsalls were silk manufacturers in Taunton, and the company still exists in their premises, built as a lace factory in 1825 but making silk by 1835 and now medical suture material. Their web page is www.pearsalls.co.uk . My mother has shanks of embroidery silks with the Pearsalls label. Do you know of any family connection? If so, I can find out lots more about them.

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Somerset / Re: I Might Be Able to Help with Ancestors Living in Taunton 1820's to 1830's
« on: Wednesday 16 January 13 22:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all - I've stumbled upon this very useful and interesting chat while researching various pubs in Taunton. I live in Taunton and work as an archaeologist and historian, the Goldsworthy Recollections are a very important resource for social history in the town, and for placing various buildings and businesses. I can offer some small help to you all in pinpointing various names and places - for instance, the Sugarloaf Inn (Andymking on page 6 of this thread), although given as in Bishops Hull parish, stood at the junction of what is now Park Street and Cann Street, across the road from St John's Church in the town, near the West Gate turnpike - the parish of Bishop's Hull was much larger back then, and when you search online for Bishop's Hull now you will be directed to the village of that name, several miles from the edge of the parish where it met with the town of Taunton!
If there are any queries which I can help with please shout - give me a day or two to attempt them, and I apologise in advance if the day job slows me down in replying!

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