Parsons Court St Brides

[David Corn]

Hi All,

I have family that lived in Parsons Court, in the Parish of St Brides, in the 1841 census. St Brides church is of course off Fleet St in London. Parsons Court appears to have been off Bride lane which runs into New Bridge Street (it is not indicated on maps today).

There were 18 people at the address including two other families and there appears to be 8 dwellings in Parsons Court.

Does anyone know more about Parsons Court and the circumstances of those living there? Am I right in assuming that these dwellings were perhaps part of the church complex?

Many Thanks - David

[mckha489]

Have you checked Charles Booth’s poverty map?

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/15/-0.1024/51.5138/100/0?marker=531495,181098

[mckha489]

Several of this type of advertisement in the 1830s

[hanes teulu]

The Examiner, 6 Sep 1835 (check out Cogers Hall (note - no "d")

[Watson]

"Before the Great Fire there was a parsonage house in Bride's Lane, long since leased out by the Church of Westminster, which hath the impropriation and parsonage.  It is now divided into several tenements.  That place is now called Parson's Court."

(H.B. Wheatley, London Past and Present, Volume III, 1891, page 36)

[David Corn]

Thanks all for your thoughts and Watson for a clue.

I will continue researching this.

David