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[SB]

Thanks again Casalguidi. It'll be a little while before I can get down to do the local work, but I am  confident  that all this advice will give me plenty to go on.
Best Wishes,
SB

[casalguidi]

I have a feeling that some of those people listed in the 1901 directory ie. PERRY and BRIEN may appear on the 1901 census with the ref. RG13/539 folio 90 page 29 ................... if somebody could look that up please

Casalguidi

[Biker]

1901 - 10 East Street, Greenwich

James V? Perry 72 Engine Fitter b Cornwall Helton? (sorry my Cornwall geography is rubbish)
Eliza 67 wife b. Cornwall Redruth

refs as above

Biker

[Biker]

1901 - 2 East Street, Greenwich

George Brien 60 Plasterer (I'm guessing as it has marks all over it) b. London Greenwich
Emma 60 wife Confectioners Baker b. Stafford Tamworth

refs as above

Biker

[Biker]

Me again

Sorry I didn't read the thread the way through, just saw Casalguidi's mention of the two names.

On the next page, immediately after East Street, is Roan's School.  Is that what you're actually looking for?

SB the mention you make of 14 Eastney Street would fit as Roan's School comes directly after 12 East Street.

Let me know if you want anything else.

Cheers
Biker

[SB]

Hello Biker, thanks for your work.
You ask if I am looking for the Roan school-
I'm trying to find out about the house that is now 4 Feathers Place. We seem to have established that this road was previously East Street, and the house is today four or five doors down from the Roan school- I need to get down there again to count exactly.This house is at the south end of the road, close to the junction with Park Vista (formerly Park Place apparently).
I understand the school building is used today by the Maritime Museum.
Best Wishes
SB

[Biker]

Hi SB

At 4 East Street there are two families.  Heads are both labourers.
The writing is not the best but the surnames are Bone/Cone or similar and Carne.  Sorry difficult writing.

The enumeration, if it helps, goes Plume of Feathers Court (odd numbers), Park Place (20 and 22) and then East St (even starting with 2 onwards).  Not much help really since roads were often not enumerated logically.

Regards
Biker

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi SB and Casalguidi et al,
A fascinating thread, and I'm going to be no kind of help at all, but I couldn't help but notice someone in one of the households in the vicinity having the occupation of a "temperance brewer".  Sounds very like a serious conflict of interest there, or is my ignorance letting me down as usual?
Perhaps someone could look one or two of these families up in the 1881 Census, to see whether there's any mention of 4, East Street, or even that Boys' School...(You did say that the dwelling dates back to 1744, didn't you, SB?)
Very best wishes,
keith

[Keith Sherwood]

SB,
Did actually try finding the engine fitter, James V. Perry, aged 52, in the 1881 Census for Greenwich.  He was living at 5, East Street, and next door, at no. 4 East Street were the households of Charles LADGROVE, aged 85 and his wife Caroline aged 60; Charles was a pensioner.  Also at the same address was Joseph EDSLEY aged 71 and his wife Fanny aged 72; Joseph is "Pensioned Civil Service".  The numbers in this street are numbered consecutively, and I have no idea whether this number 4, East Street might correspond to the residence you are trying to trace...
keith
And when I tiptoed the other way down the street, I discovered next to Number 2, East Street, the Roan School with the caretaker living there with his wife, and his sister who was called Temperance Ann BELL.  I think I've had a whisky too many, as perhaps Temperance Brewer (whom I mentioned earlier) was actually a person.  I think I'll retire to bed.  You really do need to exactly count how many houses there are between the Roan School and the dwelling you're interested in next time you're in Greenwich...