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[brianz]

HI
    I have a 4x great grandfather Richard Hannam b 1760 London. His father of the same name b abt 1730/40  I have identified him as a Peruke Maker of St James Street in the Borough of St James in the County of Middlesex. A copy of Richard Jnr's indentures dated 1777 place his father in St James Street as a Shopkeeper, The 1774 Poll Book gives him as a Peruke Maker at the same address in 1774 married to an Elizabeth they had 7 or possibly 8 children.
I would like to find out more abut Richard Snr but am not sure how to go forward London seems so complicated any help would be appreciated

Thanks Steve

[KGarrad]

Ancestry has a database "England & Wales Christening Records 1530-1906".

On there is:

Name: Richard Hannam
Birth Date: 2nd February 1760
Christening: 24th February 1760
Place: Westminster

Parents: Richard Hannam & Elizabeth

[KGarrad]

Also at Westminster to Richard & Elizabeth Hannam:

Mary. Birth 24th August 1758; Christening 17th September 1758
John. Birth 29th April 1762; C 24th May 1762
William. B 25th October 1763; C 29th November 1763
John Delme. B 27th January 1765; C 17th February 1765

[brianz]

Thanks KGarrad, I have copies of the parish records for the children it was the father and where they lived that I was interested in thanks anyway

Steve

[[Ray]]

Hi

You didn't ask about the geographics . . . . .

St James's Street is still where it was in 1760.
Runs from Piccadilly down to St James's Palace.

Main thing that you would(may) notice about London 250 years ago is that there were NO TRAINS. Therefore no stations nor (rail) bridges across the Thames. Westminster and London bridges were there, but not carrying steel rails.
The Mall was an avenue/a row or three of trees.
 
Ray

[mc8]

Hi Brianz

Here are a couple of online resources to put some meat on your rellies bones

http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm this is a really interesting site packed with info (only three references on perukes came up in the search facility though).  I bought his book on Victorian London but haven't tried the others

The Booth site at LSE is also a great starting point although his notebooks are later in date-at least you can search by street name and see the relevant pages http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

If you fancy a long read, then London, The autobigraphy by Jon E Lewis , London the biography by Peter Ackroyd, English Society in the 18thC by Roy Porter, London, a social history by the same author, and Liza Pickard's Dr Johnson's London-every day life in London 1740-1770 are all readable

[mc8]

I went to Familysearch.org and found his six siblings-showing the parents were settled  in St James for some years.  Presumably, John Delme Hannam indicates a family (maternal?) name which may help go back further-or have you already drawn a blank on that?

Also-there is a child born to Richard and Ann in 1793 in St James, indicating Elizabeth was dead by then-or was that the son and his wife?

[[Ray]]

Hi

(James) Boswell's London Journal 1762/3 (if you can find a copy)

18 months in the life of an !8c wannabe "yuppie" in London as recorded by him in his diary. Definitely give you a feel of what ordinary life (well one step above working) was like in London.


Ray

[mc8]

Looks like there was a Hannam family in Westminster from 1715 (John & Jane and later George & Mary including some non-conformist records) again on Familysearch-no direct link to Richard though