Penshurst Gardens, Edgeware or Barnet?

[Retired traveler]

Hi

I am trying to locate a property in Penshurst Gardens where my one of my relations lived in the 1930's. I have the house name but the whole street is now just house numbers.  Does anybody know where I could find out what the names were and the number the house was given?

Regards

Dave

[teaurn]

You might be able to get a clue from the 1911 census.  If you do an address search for the name of the road.  The schedule would be in order.

[dawnsh]

Hi Dave

I can see if there is a suitable entry on the electoral registers on a future trip to the London Metropolitan Archives.

Can you tell me the surname of the family you are looking for and which year you have identified them as being at that address?

Dawn

[Retired traveler]

Thanks Dawn and Teaurn.

I have checked the 1911 census but the street does not appear so it must have been built after that.

The property was called 'Marcroft' and the family living there was named was Tuke and they lived there from 1927 to 1930. Unfortunately the husband murdered his wife and son at the property in 1930 and was comitted to Broadmoor so I am not sure the electoral registers would help. However this is source of which I have no experience. If you think you could find something I would be very grateful

I have checked the Distirct Valuers and Local Authority databases but they only record the house numbers.

Regards


Dave

[snowball]

Hi,
If you've not done it, I'd suggest getting a copy of the will of Iva Tuke of Marcroft, Penshurst Gardens, died 1929 - some details here: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33610/pages/3434 (halfway down second column).

If this doesn't reveal the street address, you might try locating press photographs of the scene and work it out from there.

Regards
Rob

[Retired traveler]

Thanks Rob,
I have the will and several pages of the police report into the murders but they all refer to Marcroft.  I suspect it may have been before they started numbering streets in this area. I had not thought about trying to find a photograph and tracing it back that way.  I live on the South Coast so I may make my first trip to Kew and look at the complete police report, failing that I can try the papers

Regards

Dave

[dawnsh]

Hi Dave

I looked at the entry in the 1926 register.

It's a very small street off Hale Lane, none of the houses are numbered but the one you are interested in is most probably the first in the street, or the last, depends where the electoral register people started from I suppose

They are listed in this order

Marcroft, Orwell, Icarus, Weardale and Wrygates

Dawn

[Retired traveler]

Hi Dawn

Thank you very much for looking at this for me it is most kind. Looking at the street on Google earth, it is now a much longer street than it was then and I suspect that it was just starting to be developed.  I have decided to go to Kew and look at the full police file in the hope there may be a picture in there.

Regards

Dave