The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 4)

[waiteohman]

Ruskie in 1841 Robinson's living Narrow St.

[Ruskie]

Ruskie in 1841 Robinson's living Narrow St.

Thanks very much Linda, I didn't read your post carefully enough. 

[waiteohman]

Births Sep 1846  quarter St Geo Han Sq - Robinson  Charlotte

Father James is James Miles Robinson from the baptism of son Edward in 1840, mother Sarah for his birth.

[Siamese Girl]

I've gone through all the female Wood/Woods marriages for London in 1826 on Ancestry but no one was married 25 March. I've looked at all the March ones in case the date was wrong to see if Mrs S could have been a witness but have drawn a blank.

The trouble with Nat's friends and relations is tha they either have names like White/Fox/Wood -so common there are millions of them out there, or so rare like Skirricker that they don't actually exist!

Carole

[waiteohman]

I tried Woods; however, it may be a marriage in a non-conformist church and these are not indexed on Ancestry. Edmonton Tottenham Congretional Church records appear to be incomplete.

There is a Wood printing the published works of Bunyan. Could further relations have developed between Woods and Bunyans?
Title Exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar
Early English books online
Author John Bunyan
Publisher Printed by Ralph Wood, for M. Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old Bailey, 1658

Linda

[Ruskie]

Not a lot of news in today's entry - it must have been a slow day if Nathaniel thought the fact that Sam Daws broke the chimney pot worthy of a mention. 

I had a quick look for Sam in 41 and 51 but couldn't see an obvious one. Not many Daws around, but a couple of Dawes. 

[Ruskie]

IMPORTANT - HELP REQUIRED

with this:
As already mentioned, the Ancestry London Parish Records where most of us have found all this valuable information about Nathaniel's family, were taken from records held at the London Metropolitan Archives.  These records are not complete and they do not include all the Westminster parishes which are held by Westminster Archives. This probably explains why we are missing quite a lot of births, marriages and deaths, so if anyone can think of anything that we need, please let me know as I am compiling a list of questions/lookups for Westminster Archives.

Jim, from Westminster Archives, is willing to do lookups for us. 

and this:
As we know, Westminster Archives are going to publish the diary in book form and have asked for our help to find any mistakes in the introduction on their website. The only thing I could find is the fact that they say that Granny Shepard, and Nathaniel's mother and step father had 'moved out' of Richmond Buildings by 1851. We know that both Granny Shepard and Mary Ward had died and Matthew Ward's whereabouts are unknown. Can anyone spot any more inaccuracies?

Thanks to all. 

[Siamese Girl]

Off the top of my head I'd be pedantic and ask to have the original checked  for Miss Manodes to see if that was actually what he wrote.

A bit off the subject. my current bedtime reading is The Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970 (I found it while turning some stuff out and decided to read it first!) I've just read about the murder of Miss Barrow by Mr & Mrs Seddon in 1911 a very unpleasant death caused by arsenic poisoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seddon After the poor woman died Mr Seddon went off to the undertaker to haggle a cheap funeral. The undertaker was a Mr Nodes - it must be the same family.

Carole

[steve_gus]

Very likely to be the same Nodes I suspect. They are still operating in my hometown area of North London.

For the book version of the diary, I think its essential to have an 1846 map in there. As well as the characters  (surely the stuff you guys are finding out on here would be key to include in the book), you need to be able to visualise where all this was happening. For example, where Nat works is now the site of (Victoria?) train station, and the canal where the barges went to the basin is now just 50ft long and has housing on it! On top of this many roads and names have changed. So, it you want to look up where he went, walked on sundays, where Ecclestone Wharf etc actually was, you wont find these on current maps.

steve