1880s Shakespeare Rd and Percy Terrace Brixton - home to Thomas Lankshear and Henry Carpenter
see Thomas Sylvester Lankshear Family
It is now Shakespeare Road but in 1880s some houses were called Percy Terrace George Henry Lankshear Ada Mary Lankshear born 14 Jul 1883, 287 Shakespeare Road Census is Brixton - locally it is Herne Hill
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The cream house is modern number 287 - and several photos taken in 21st century |
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Sadly we now know that this 287 is a modern renumbering of the street - the modern house we want appears to be 375 Except that end of street looks modern so I guess these photographs are what the house might have been see maps.ninemsn.com.au When the maps comes up it should have found
The house near the lamp looks to have a driveway which I think makes it the business of Chas Boatwright who in 1901 census appears to be at number 247 and there is a photo of his place at the council site Shakespeare Road, Loughborough Junction
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1876 when William Alfred marries his address is Shakespear Rd no number | 1876 William Alfred Lankshear marriage to Kezia Read (nee Ashby) marriage to Edward Read | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RG11/622 covers Shakespeare Rd in 1881 | 1881 Lankshear are at number 6 Shakespeare
note George Henry born at 6 Percy |
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1881 on a report or so and House sequence is
14 Percy 15 Shakespeare 16 Percy 17 Percy So seems clear that Percy Terrace was just a block of houses on Shakespeare
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1881 Then next page is number 20 Percy
and this page has Charles Barnes and family who share the house |
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1881 Next page is Henry Carpenter and family also in number 20 and this is where the numbering gets interesting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1891 and Henry Carpenter and a larger family are sharing
number 287 with Henry Bowyer and family.
Note Ada Mary Lankshear born 14 Jul 1883, 287 Shakespeare Road |
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Following information is from Tony Carpenter
whose Grandfather was John Thomas Carpenter b1886
and Tony also provided the photos of Shakespeare Rd . Thank you Tony
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Birth etc information on the Carpenters William Herbert Carpenter b1878...... 24 Percy Terrace |
So the Carpenter's were in 24 then 20 and by 1886 are in 287
in which house Ada Lankshear was born in 1883. Clearly the Carpenter's and
Lankshear's were neighbours and presumably were friends. Did they actually
share number 287 at one time. Was 287 Shakespeare also number 6 Percy or
perhaps number 20
Difficult to find other surnames from 1881 still there in 1891 but
Edward Martin in 285 was in number 14. Did Edward move a house ? If 14
became 285 then was 287 originally 16 or something |
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All Interesting - as far as I can see no connection between Carpenter and Lankshear other than sharing houses Tony has been a great help in putting me onto this aspect and sorting it out The following wonderful charts were supplied in Jan 2009 by the Herne Hill Society to Tony.
We have found out that 6 Percy which became 287 Shakespeare and then 379 but the houses were demolished. 379 is around 6 houses from the bend in the road which puts it were the road runs into the new group of houses see Live.msn the picture of modern 287 above would be something like the house in 1880s What Tony found seems to fit my problem of Caroline leaving Thomas around 1886 as Tony's family move from number 20/259 to 287 before birth of John Thomas Carpenter |
Tony had an answer from Local Council Archivist on
Percy and Shakespeare (November 2008)
Advise from Archivist "The street is numbered once by the 1880s when the highest numbers in the road are up to 297 ( odd numbers on the Percy Terrace side ) then with numbers up to possibly the 380s or 390s in the modern day re numbering. If their house was no. 20 I suppose a quick count from the corner would take you to the building. " If last house is 297 then presumably it was 1 Percy Terrace http://maps.google.com/ I can search until 385 shakespeare rd,london - 387 sends it off down the road so looks like last modern house is 385 Old was a mix Percy and Shakespeare per 1881 census. 1882 renumbering up to 297 and modern - later renumbering
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1905 Shakespeare Road.pdf has details of the street with last house as 297
1917 map and Red marks possible 287 as from c1882 or old number 6 Percy Terrace.
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