SOPERs of London Notes in approx date order .
1600; 1700; 1800; '41; '51; '61; '71; '81; '91; '01; '11
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Geoffrey le Soper’s, ‘managium . . . . Galfridi schopparii’ land & dwelling was west of 3 shops rented for 8s in the street of London Bridge, neighbors a spicer & butcher’s shop. The lease 'of the fee of St Giles Hospital', transfered for the welfare of widow Felicia. Geoffrey's 'land & dwelling of the same fee' : [no date] from Ancient Deeds: Vol 4, pub1902 www.british-history.ac.uk
Edgar le Soppier, 1138 in Ekwall's Early London Personal Names www.british-history.ac.uk
William le Sopere, London 1195 www.british-history
Robin Soaper confessed before the same [sheriffs and others] that he had pledged to the said Roger for threepence halfpenny a counterpane stolen in the said……. [sentanced of hanging to previous defendant] snippets : p129 A Seldon Society Publication, pub 1888, reporting historical documents from the 4th year of the reign of King John 1201 : GoogleBooks
Adam la Savonier, 'Adam the soaper', Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi [perhaps this was 1204-27?] : from Dictionary of Surnames
Godard Soper, born about 1205 at St Margaret, Sothbury, London : www.family search [If correct, it's a surprisingly early entry for the IGI register]
Soper Lane, earliest reference found, so far, is in 1212 [for other dates, see 'places' at bottom of page]
Robin Sopere mentioned in London 1220 Cur (also Soparius & Soppier) 'Early London Personal Names' p180: GoogleBooks
Walter le Soper & Alditha were 'attached' [summonsed to court], but died before the hearing in 1253-4. The neighbours had also died. [as in other cases, so assume many years delay]. Their one year old daughter Amice, was bitten by a sow & died. No one was suspected & judgment was misadventure. The sow, worth 20d was confiscated. Pleas of the Crown, 38 Henry III [deodandum = a thing which caused a death, given to the Crown]. 'Amice' become 'Amy' : Alditha became Edith : www.british-history Doc.35992 "Amercements, 1258–9 : #602. Nichil [in ballio] Ø De Stephano de Smethefeld quia non venit; Thoma le Sopere et Johanne le Cordwaner di. m. pro plegio eiusdem. [cf. 91]"]
Richard de Essex, le Soper (soparius), Feoffment by him to John prior of Holy Trinity, London, of 6s. quit rent in the Chepe (foro), St. Pancras parish, London, from his two shops (sopis) with solar above (cum solario desuper edificato). Paid 4 marks. Witnesses:— Ralph Hardel, mayor, 2 sheriffs, 7 aldermen & 3 others : Document A9656. Ancient Deeds: Vol 4, pub1902 www.british-history [no date – Hardel mayor, 1254-8]
Thomas le Soper & John le Cordwaner 'attached' Stephen, perhaps an employee, or slave . One of several 'attached' [made to attend court?] over the death of Adam le Hert who was crushed to death by a beam while building a house, probably in Castle Baynard ward, [now Blackfriers] City of London. 1258-9. [Seems the beam was worth 12d & as it caused a death, the beam confiscated, or it's value paid to the Crown - see 1253] : british-history.ac.uk Doc.35994 : 'Nichil [in ballio] Ø De Stephano de Smethefeld quia non venit; Thoma le Sopere et Johanne le Cordwaner di. m. pro plegio eiusdem. [cf. 91]' british-history.ac.uk : & Soper Lane Site
Mary le Soper, an order for her not to permit to be impleaded [accused/sued] concerning the following book, as it is testified before the king by the coroners of ??. … snippet from p311 Rolls in the Public Record Office: (1272-1307 : Edward I) : Court of Chancery. Close writs pub1900, another snippet p79.. John Sopere, John Cok, William Knyght, ... : GoogleBooks [no place - parked in Londobn notes]
Thomas le Soper & John le Cordwaner were attached to Stephen de Smethefeud. Stephen was attached as he witnessed Adam le Hert being crushed by a beam while building a house in the courtyard of Simon Passelewe. The sheriffs are to answer. The men of [Castle Baynard ward] fined. [cf91] p135 of 'The London Eyre of 1276' : GoogleBooks
Roger le Sopere witnesses with Roger le Palmere, Ellis le Theyn & Adam Osmar at quitclaim by Thomas Walkelin of Minstede to William des Iffez of his right in a tenement in Minstede, Hants [nr Lyndhurst, New Forest] formerly of Peter le Prest of Minstede : doc C5486 from ‘Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Vol6’ : [no date but perhaps Edward III, previous doc dated 1291] : www.british-history [William (c1390s-1459) below had New Forest links, connection?]
Walter Sopere Index of names & places in early mayor's court rolls: 1298-1307, pub1924, Centre for Metropolitan History : www.british-history
Walter Sopere, 1299-1300, 1 of 13 men accused of not observing the Proclamation & refusing money. They were named in front of city mayor & aldermen, London, 11 Feb 1299-1300 & 13 Feb (Sat before Feast of St Valentine), also 14 Feb (Thurs before St V [so another year]) www.british-history [believe they had to use money in crocards instead of sterling?] Early Mayor's Court Rolls' 1298-1307, pub 1924 : GoogleBooks : (an accuser of Sabrichesworth [Herts])
Walter Sopere was 1 of 12 people who 'had not observed the Proclamation' according to oaths given 14 Nov 1299/1300 by Adam Brun, John de Sabrichesworth & Thomas Brunhad. People were being summonsed to sware on oath, in front of the Mayor, that they knew no men who 'after the Proclamation, had refused money'. from Centre for Metropolitan History">Centre for Metropolitan History" : [a Christmas prolamation insisted that debased coins called pollards must be acceped as a ½d]
Mr Soper held land near Cheapside? : John Stowe's book of 1565, summarized information found in various Middle Ages chronicles, he said "laborers every work-day are to be found in Cheape, about Soper's land end" [Possibly this means a Soper held a large enough plot of land, near Cheapside, for it to be well known : see Soper Lane] www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
William le Sopere & Peter Clericus were members returned Mar 1312-13 for ….. William le Sopere mentioned when parliament met at Westminster 20 Jan 1323 & was prorogued* to 23 Feb (17 Edward II) : GoogleBooks [*discontinue a session of parliament without dissolving it]
Alen le Sopar 1316; A Soap Maker ; Mentioned as being in London www.et-tu.com/soper-lane, a disreputable person, without any obvious connexion with Sopers Lane www.british-history
Aleyn le Sopere : 1316 'the good folk of the trade of potters' denounced to the Aldermen divers persons & especially Aleyn le Sopere who buy pots of bad metal and put them on a fire to resemble old brass, they are sold at West-chepe on Sundays & festivals, but when exposed to great heat they melt to nothing : snippet from 'The Quarterly Review' 1885 & Surrey & 'London Bell-founders' pub 1884 GoogleBooks : 'The Bells of England' suggest this might be John Aleyn, Kingstone-by-Lewes, Sussex, involved in a London Church bell GoogleBooks
Alan de Coventre, "sopere" : mentioned in Coroners Rolls of the City of London 1300-1378 pub 1913 'William de Chesthunt, by Henry le Sunor(?) & Alan le Sopere' [no date] in snippet from GoogleBooks also Alan de Coventre sopere (soapmaker) post 1326 Cor 162 (juror Ports) from Population of Medieval London pub 1956 GoogleBooks
Michael le Soper of Chalk, [E of Gravesend, Kent] general pardon for offences before the coronation. Jul 1327 long list of Edward III’s general pardons [reigned from Jan'27, age 14 after father deposed by mother & Roger Mortimer who he deposed age 17] source
Agnes Sopere widow of Roger Sopere of Woxebrugg' [Uxbridge] Anno 47. Contract between her & Sir Thomas de Samford for premises in Colham [nr Uxbridge], Anno 21 : later snippet Anno 47 mentions property which Alvena Sopere formerly held, [presume Edward III (reign over 47 years) so 1347? & 1373?] : GoogleBooks
Roger Soper of Woxebrugg’s widow, Agnes agreement with Sir Thomas Sa… about premises in Colham : Anno 21 p.125 of ‘A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex. Richard I to Richard III [c1293 if Edward I : c1348 if Edward III] Google Books Snippet
John le Sopere of Hussebourne, with several others had Robert Lucas, Walter Wace & John le Bourton assigned to take them : 18 Sept 1348-50? [Edward II], Westminster : snippet from 'Patent Rolls in Public Record Office' pub 1905 : GoogleBooks [Hurstbourne, Hants?]
Alvena la Sopere formerly held property held by Jobellus Aldermannus. Anno 47 [Only Edward II reigned for 50 years, so date c1354] p.43 : A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex. Richard I to Richard III… Google Books Snippet also Roger below
a Soper mentioned in parliament rolls of of Henry IV 1404 : British History Online
William Soper with William Cheyne, knight, Thomas Ryngewode, John Halle, John Harryes & John Counge, received, seisin of Shirfield manor, Hants & advowson of the church, from John & sir Robert Shotesbroke & John Frank (clerk) 20 May 1427 [5 Henry VI] . Three seals : Ancient Deeds: Vol6 pub1915 : www.british-history
Hugh Soper. His mark amongst 47 coopers, Folio 100b of City of London Record Books, 1430-32 [Folio 100, presumably the main document they signed appears missing] : www.british-history : doc.33715 pub1911
a Soper mentioned in parliament rolls of Henry VI 1442 : British History Online
a Sopere recorded in 'London & Middlesex Feet of Fines' (1198-1485) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in London & Middlesex : scan for sale theoriginalrecord
John Soaper one of 16 gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapel Royal £73 paid in December (listed 11th of 16): from 'Great Wardrobe [accounts] 1485 [should be 1760's??] : Google Books
John Soper, gentlemen 11 June 1495 [10 Henry VII] Feoffment (in latin) of lands & tenements in St Clement Danes without Temple Bar, Lon; Listed before Soper; Henry Edyall, Thomas Madys, William Lynton, clerk & Richard Elyot [Elliot] all of the 2nd party; 1st party Thomas Chamberleyn [Chamberlain], merchant, William Elyot [Elliot], clerk & William Welbe[c]k, haberdasher. Nottingham archive : [William Elyott connected with John Soper 1495 & William Soper 1519]
Thomas Soper & Robert Kendall involved in property transaction with Margaret, Countess of Richmond. Manor of West Drayton, 1501: Power of attorney to receive seisin from William, Bishop of Lincoln and others. [seisin=taking legal possession of land] : London Metropolitan Archives : ACC/0446/ED/001: www.a2a
William Soper of London, gent, copy of will dated 12 Jul 1508 in deed nr360, with a broken seal of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury. City of Exeter: perhaps in connection with Flaye's Almshouses [for clergy widows/decayed tradesmen founded Mrs Flaye 1634] 'Deeds' pub 1906 : british-history.ac.uk [presume coincidence; Warham's wife a Soper]
Robert Soper (/Sooper), was the tenant of a newly built shop at 10a All Hallow, Honey Lane 1509-18 . Behind, to the North, was 10b was The Goat ''The Goat on the Hoop'', who's tenant was allowed £6 against rent for troubles in building 'the forhouse where soper dwells'. Soper probably had a shop frontage and an outside gallery on the side. It had a hall & kitchen. It was leased from the Drapers Company. From 1510 Robert Soper paid new rent of £9 until 1513 and £8 thereafter. The street was paved before Mr Soper's house in 1515/6. In 1518 another person took the lease. Destroyed in The Great Fire 1668 : 'Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire' www.british-history [his will 1521?]
Thomas Soper, Gentleman of London, his will of 7 Dec 1509 prob 11/16 nationalarchives.gov.uk, document available online
John Soper m.Alice Bulstrode, widow of John Bulstrode. Records 1515-18 inc a lawsuit John & Alice brought against John Bulstrode (brother & executor of William) & William Ludlow over his legacy. William left Alice lands entrusted to him by Philippa, William's aunt & guardian, to Ludlow. John Bulstode refused to prove William's will; claim may inc lands in M.sx, Berks, Bucks & Wilts; from Whos Who of Tudor Women
William Soper (d.1519) had the living of St Mary the Less, Ilchester, S.set ('now St Mary Major, 'church, survived to the present day'). He was a considerable pluralist in East Anglia [ie, had several benefices, at the same time, presume the master of Beck, Norfolk 1497] : Previous 2 Crown presentees in 1485, Thomas Harryes a William Elyott, were graduates & respectively king's chaplain & Ass Master of the Rolls. (fn. 556) Both were almost certainly absentees : www.british-history : [William Elyott connected with John Soper 1495 & William Soper 1519]
Robert Soper (?-1521) of All Hallows Honey Lane, City of London. Will Register, 27 Aug 1521 prob 11/20 nationalarchives.gov.uk, document available online [his tenancy 1521?]
William Soper citizen & haberdasher of London took a £60 loan 7 June 1522 from Thomas Buck {Bukke}, citizen & merchant-tailor of London (Before James Yarford, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster).: 1st (& last) term 24 Aug 1522 : Endorsement: John Shelton, knight, Sheriff, replies that he had sent the writ to the Seneschal of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, that it might be executed by him; his reply appears in the schedule date 15 Oct 1522 : Note, Inquisition & return 19 Apr 1523. Attached is the inquisition made at Henhowe in Suffolk before George Nevell, knight, Seneschal of the Liberty of the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds on 23 Mar 1523. William Soper, on the day of the recognisance & afterwards was seised of a messuage, called Gathergolays & 8 acres of land in Barton next to Mildenhall [in Lackford Hundred, Suffolk] & of a messuage, called Soper's, with garden, a croft, 100a of land, 17a of meadow & 31a of pasture in Barton. Thomas Bedingfield & other joint-feoffees were seised on the day of the recognisance & afterwards, of three tenements, 52a, 1 rod & 3 ft, with rights to fold sheep in the fields of Barton, to the use of William Soper & his heirs. They are worth £10 a year. William Soper had no goods or chattels there : 2nd endorsement, Sheriff Bedingfield handed over these properties to Thomas Buck 14 June 1523nationalarchives.gov.uk
Thomas Soper recieved lands, tenements & rents in Taunton 20 May 1524, with William Bury, Vicar of Taunton, John Swayne, clerk, Roger Hill, William Tedbury, John Soper, John Eston, Robert Horsey & others conveyed from Thomas Waren & John Mount, bequeathed by John Bisshop on behalf of a chantry lately founded by him in the Church of St Mary Magdalene : The History of Taunton Priory, pub 1860 : GoogleBooks
John Soper & wife Alice brought case against Ludlow to have execution of a recovery in a writ of dower : Soper et Ux' v. Ludlow Case about 6 houses & 100a land in Littleton & Stanwell, M.sex [villages S of Heathrow] 28 (1537/8). [Guessed sumary....] Alice now remarried to John Soper, received as a widow a third of Littleton & Stanwell estate, (1531/2) but her husband’s will was unclear, she claimed 1/3 share in both places, judges decided she was only due a share of the Littleton properties. From Reports on Cases [an Ann Soper m. 1721, Stanwell]
William Soper, of London, a haberdasher. Examination by the Canterbury Court of Quarter Sessions : 27 Mar 1531 : Recounts his career. Says he dwelt with Sir John Styll, governor of the Merchants Venturer. After the death of his father he was imprisoned in Ludgate gaol upon two statutes merchant for 3 years. Then he dwelt with John Gerves, Prior of Ixworth. Hw went abroad and came back via Sandwich. He proposed to go to France 'to use his fetes of merchandyse' [his trading skills]. . He had 'realles' [coins] sewn into a canvas doublet under his shirt. The case may have been about money : Canterbury Cathedral Archives, ref CC/JQ/330/viii www.a2a
Alice Gladfeld alias Soper & William Meder. Ex. diocese Dispensation for marriage (4th degree affinity). 26s 8d. Muniment book, Lambeth Palace, Date 19 Oct 1535 [paid not to go to hell?] : National Church Database
Gallion Soper (& Sopper) assessed for tax 1541, parish of St Katherine (1 of 32 tax-payers), Aldgate Ward. He paid 2 shillings tax on his 40s wealth. He was 'a stranger' in the ward, so paid 10%. [Residents apparently only paid 5%] : 1541 London Subsidy roll, Aldgate Ward, City of London : www.british-history, Doc.18643
William Soper mentioned in 'Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae', 1300-1541, a list of the cathedral clergy of England and Wales : viii. 69 www.history.ac.uk : [parked in this London section, until the place can be found. Probably was Rector William Sooper, Norfolk 1519]
Master Soper a barber on or by London Bridge had 2 fair daughters Tryphena & Tryphosa Soper Oct 1544. Tryphosa chosen as 'Chariot Maiden' in the Mercer's Company parade of the Lord Mayor's Show. Her fair skin badly sunburnt after a day in the parade. Soper charged 1p for a haircut & removed teeth. He had a customer boom with people hoping to see his daughters [The names indicate he was a puritan, this year Henry VIII died & religeous persecution stopped]. A story from Edward Osborne's biog, who had his hair cut shorter than his eyelashes when be became a London Apprentice : ['Whos Who of Tudor Woman' points out this is a story from a novel pub.1860 so probably not true; (written by Ann Manning (1807-79) b.London who specialised with such historical fiction) : Above are ancient greek names, a Tryphosa Soper m.David Daniels 8 Aug 1828, Tarrant Rawston, Dorset; (she signed 'x') : Later, a Tryphena Soper (1866-1940) b.Carbonear, Nf'ld, a writer; m.Thomas Duley (of Birmingham, Eng); Mrs Tryphena Soper Duley was a writer & their dau Margaret Iris Duley, a novelist b.St John's 1894; source] : [a Thomas Soper apothecary, did have an shop on London Bridge 1660s, below]
John Soper of Spekington, Soms, to William Lyte of Lyllesdonne, Soms. Manor of Northover, Soms, which belonged to priory of St John Baptist, Bridgewater & lands (specified) in Northover in tenure of Robert & John Golde, Robert & John Body & Agnes wife of Ric Body, also lands in Northover, Kington & Charleton, Soms, & the advowson of Northover vicarage. (14th.) P. 0, m. 37.: Grants Nov 1546. Letters & Papers, Henry VIII : www.british-history
John Soper buried, 1563 St Botolph Without, Bishopsgate, London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
Nicholas Sopper, his will 17 June 1570. prob 11/52. Prerogative Court of Canterbury : [ie southern Britain, no place given, so parked in London notes] nationalarchives.gov.uk
Thomas Soper buried, 1588 St Mary Abbots, Kensington, London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
Fraunc's Soper, buried 13 May 1591, cloth & knell 6d : St Martin-in-the-Fields Accounts ['=abbreviation so Francis?] : [presume not a marked grave : as 2d for 'worst cloth' : 12d for 'grave & knell' 16d 'best cloth' : Knell=ring solemnly for funeral] : www.british-history
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Steven Soper, (Cooper cf) buried 18 Jul 1592, cloth & knell 4d : St Martin-in-the-Fields Accounts : [cf may mean child/father? or job? (5 Cooper burials in index)]
Leon. Soper buried, 1593 Westminster (St Martin In The Fields) London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
Mr Soper & Mr York attempted to kill Queen Elizabeth I in 1594 [perhaps separate attempts], other attempts followed a Papal bull against her was made by Story 1572, Somerville 1583 & 1585, Parry 1854, Moody 1587, Squire 1594, Winter 1602 all with traitorous designs set on foot by Rome; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 21 Oct 1868, from news.bl.uk; scan : [a Soper or 1594 assasination not vis www, 1594 near end of her reign (1533-1603), Soper presumably a catholic; 20 attempts made]
John Soper served twice as constable of St Katherine by the Tower a small ward bounded by East Smithfield St, Tower Ditch & Thames St dominated by St K's Hospital] : [usually appointed from the community] (85 men served as constables between 1598 & 1642). (17 men avoided the position by paying a 30s>£7 fine or orgainising a deputy). While a constable, Soper was remanded for a reletively minor offence at Middlesex sessions or Kings Bench. (see p.222 'Pursuit of Stability' by Archer pub.203)
John Soper mentioned in the Middlesex Subsidy Roll : St Katheryns 'parish?' : Worth £4? : 3rd subsidy granted 1597. Assessment date 1 Oct 1600 : source
Sooper v Sooper m, Godfrey & others. Eliz 39 1597-8 :
nationalarchives.gov.uk STAC 5/S35/40 : [London not mentioned]
John Soper [burgulary] 28 Feb 1598, his dwelling-house was entered by Edward Steward gent, John Fynch, William Askewe, & ? Ballard yeomen, all late of London, who stole a silver-gilt "salte", value 35s, a parcel-gilt silver "bole" 52s, a silver "bekar" 40s, a silver cuppe 33s, a silver "bole" 33s 8d, 12 silver spoones £3 13s, all belonging to John Soper. Also a parcel-gilt goblett 50s belonging to Morgain Jones & a silver-gilt salt 40s belonging to Hugh Whitbrooke. Steward & Finch to be hung: the other two thieves at large. Bill at St. Katherine's, Midd G.D.R. 29 Mar [40 Eliz]
Edward Soper keeper of the Steeple, Christian IV, King of Denmark accompanyed with Lord Admiral & Lord Chamberlayne went by coach to Paul Church 1606. They ascended the steeple to survey the city. Soper cut with his knife, the shape of the king's foot in the lead, a few days later he added the King's character in guilded copper in the middle of the foot. It was soon stolen, mistaking it for gold: from Stow's Chronical 1615 : England as seen by Foreigners, pub.1865 : [The event quoted as an earliest reference to the peculiarly English propensity of name carving/graffiti. For a penny visitors could carve names into St Pauls steeple's lead] Google Books snippet
Society of 'Sopers of Westminster' a new manufacturing company a corporation of 'mostly popish recusants', received a monopoly from The King. They made white soap by a new method & obtained a royal proclamation 1632 that no whale oil be used for soap, just olive & rape oil, this put the London men out of business. In 1634 the Westminster Sopers found using whale oil. In 1636 the Westminster sopers bought whale oil from Yarmouth, they lay outside the City Sopers, supplied by The Greenland Company. In 1637 'The London Sopers' who had been kept out of the business bought-out the new company They aquired whale oil from Spitsbergan, Greenland. 1637 the price dropped to £16 per ton so whaling fleets had a successful season. Merchants of York & Hull petitioned for a soap factory in York & The London soap-monopolists agreed to open a York factory source
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John Soper of St Andrew, Holborn m.Anne Smith 1634 St James, Garlickhithe : Anne [orphan? of] Anne & John Popham : Citizen, barbour surgeon 1641 poll tax, [Zetters] Lane : Ind 1688 sent £12 : Will PCC 1661-75 St Andrew, Holborn : children Anne, John, Popham (app 1666 'ta BS') Boyds London Inhabitants source
Mr Soaper paid £12 tithe in the year, to the parson of St Andrew, Holborn, 21 May 1638. A certificate from the parson listing several hundred parishioner's www.british-history
Thomas Soper (Soaper), (1630s-1694) a London apothecary : born to Richard Soaper, a haberdasher of Cambridge : apprenticed, 1646 to Robert Clark, Apothecary : Common Councilman, London Bridge , 1680 & 1690-3 1st Precinct London Br '1662' [perhaps should read 1692] : Councillor, St Olave Southwark, 1694 : He was not a Wig 'so Tory? - from 'House of Lord's records' : Warden of Society of Apothecaries 1690 : Upper Warden 1691 : Died June 1694 : buried St Olave Southwark : will proven 20 Jun 1694' : [Possibly mistranscribed from] The Rulers of London 1660-1689, biographies of Aldermen & Common Councilors of the City 'pub 1966' & History of Society of Apothecaries of London '1905' [assume the same Thomas in notes; Sussex property in 1687 & Tax bill 1693 & possibly 1664 & 1672]
: [London marriages candidates might be 1647 to Mary Parris, St Clement Danes, Westminster : 1681 to Alice Rutherford at St James, Dukes Place : 1681 to Mary Hall at St Mary, Marylebone]
: [will 28 July 1694] see medical Soper
William Soper took Richard Paine, son of Henry of Breedon, Lei a husbandman. for a 7 year apprentiship 6 Oct 1654. Records of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, Apprentices Entry Book, pub1913 by Centre for Metropolitan History : www.british-history
Gilbert Soper, a barber over against the Horseshoe tavern, Drury Lane : printed as 'an intercepted letter' written from Bruges 23 Aug 1656 to Thomas Williamson at Soper's was intercepted by John Thurlow, Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State : 'My cousin George Gardiner hath eaten too much fruit. As the receipt I left with you would be very seasonable ... He has a great opinion of your judgement in pysic... therefore some direction now may be necessary, especially autumn being near, when the humours do most abound...' [reads conspiritorialy, presume it was considered a coded incitement? Though Gilbert may be a surgeon?] british-history.ac.uk
Thomas Soper of St Clements Danes, M.sex, tailor 29 Jun 1657. £68 bond from Charles Fragle, Lezant, gent. For payment to T Soper the next 25 Nov £39. Witd. Geo. Robins, Mary King. Cornwall Record Office CY/1518 : [£203 bond 1661 & £163 bond 1664 : His will 21 May 1674]
Thomas Soper of St Clement Danes, M.sx., tailor. 1661 Bond [from him to?] Sir John Coryton, W.Newton Ferrers, & Bt. & Jn. Rashleigh of Coombe, Cornwall, esq : Soper to be paid £203 before 22 Apr following : witnessed, Henry Pengelly, J Marshall, Wm Stephens : Cornwall Record Office CY/1489 Cornwall Records
Gilbert Soper, was a defendant in 'Limbrough v Baker', 1657 : St Martin in the Fields , London : Plaintiffs, Edward Limbroug & wife Dorothy, Bartholomew Baker, William Gunn & Gilbert Soper : ref C 6/139/119
John Soper of London, surgeon was involved in lending £400 in a lease transaction of farms of Tregane, St Wenn, Cornwall. 23 Apr 1659 : Involving Francis Vivian of St. Columb Major, gent. Thomas Vivian of Covent Garden, M.sx esq & Francis Hoblyn of the Inner Temple, gent : Cornwall Record Office: ref PH/360 www.a2a : [&1759 & 61 records]
Thomas Soaper Surgeon in Extraordinary to the Person, 4 Oct 1660 'no furthur occasion' (Lord Chamberlain Papers PRO, 3/26 folio 145) [also recorded as Thomas Soper] : Database of Court Officers
Thomas Soper, was a defendant in 'Morgan v Morgan', 1664, High Holborn, London : Plaintiffs, Mary Morgan 'spinster', Elizabeth Morgan 'widow' & Bledrey Morgan : Defendants, Thomas & Susannah Sedgwicke, Nicholas Hughes, Thomas Falcon & Thomas Soper : ref C6/168/91 www.british-history : [an Ann bapt 18 Feb 1646 to John & Mary at St Andrews]
Anne Soper (c1646-?) spinster, abt 19, at own disp., her parents dead & William Tilman, Barber Chirurgeon, bachr, abt 24, both of St Andrew's, Holborn, 15 Nov 1665; alleged by Rupt Browne, of Christ Church, London, Gent. at St James, Clerkenwell. Marriage Allegations National Church Database : [an Ann bapt 18 Apr 1646 to John & Mary at St Andrews]
John Soper, Gentleman of London. His will 10 Dec 1665 ref PROB 11/322 nationalarchives [doc available online]
John Soper, Barber Surgeon of Saint Andrew Holborn. His will 15 Dec 1665 ref 1846-1846-PROB 11/318 nationalarchives [doc available online]
William Soper of Wadham College, said of Robert Streeter who painted the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theater, Apr 1668, ‘That future ages must confess they owe to Streeter more than Michael Angelo' (Natural History of Oxfordshire, 274–6). www.british-history about The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, a book pub1954 : [so perhap Soper quote from 20thC?]
Francis Soper buried, 1669, St Martin in the Fields, London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
Thomas Soper had a house in Westminster. Licences were granted in 1672 to John Dan of St Martin's, a Presbyterian preacher, for Presbyterian meetings at the house. Source Cal. S.P. Dom. 1672-3, page 94 www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
Philip Soper, James Fareside & Philip Castle, Sub-commissioners of Excise for county of Huntingdon: 15 May 1672, Treasury allowance at the request of Lionell Walden, farmer of Excise of said county. www.british-history
George Soper discharged from St Thomas's Hospital: 30 Jun 1673 from admission & discharge registers; : londonlives.org
Mary Soaper m.John Atford. Marriage Licence 1673, Westminster ancestry.com from a Dictionary Of English Surnames p.66
Thomas Soper, commission to be ensign to Capt Nichols in the Duke of Albemarle's regiment, 13 Oct 1673 [pay to view document] : www.british-history
Robert Soaper son of Thomas, St Clement Danes, Middlesex, gentleman apprenticed to Richard Nayler 6 May 1674, Grocers' Company : London Apprenticeship Abstracts : www.englishorigins.com
Thomas Soaper, an apothecary lived on London Bridge, 'an ingenious, sober man'. Baynard remembered Soaper saying, only 2 people died on the bridge during the visitation [plague] - [so cold water gave protection?] : from 'History of Cold Baths' by Dr Edward Baynard, 4th reprint 1715, original 1674 : GoogleBooks
Thomas Soper (?-1674) a tailor of St Clement Danes, M.sx. His will 21 May 1674. Scan available online nationalarchives.gov.uk ref prob11/345 : [see Took loans? 1657, 61 & 64 : if he only wrote his will 1674, speculate the Capt 1678/9 below]
Elizabeth Soaper m.Isaac Goddar, 'an embroyderer' at St Mary, Sayoy, London, 28 Dec 1675, both abt 23, of St Martin's in the Field, unmarried. Elizabeth's parents both dead : A Harleian Society record ancestry.com
Thomas Soper 1 of abt 30 at Court of Governers 20 Feb 1678; 4 female staff discharged; londonlives.org : [a Thomas Soaper surgeon to Charles II 1660 monarchy restored May that year]
Anne Soper (?-c1678) widow of St Clement Danes, M.sx : Will 27 May & Probate Inventory 30 May 1678 Scan available online nationalarchives ref 1678W & prob11/356
Soper's company to disembark Portsmouth with Captains Lee's & Fitz-James company in the battalion under the command of ...? : Charles II papers, 1678 (pub1913)
Phillip Soper mentioned in Charles II 30 Mar 1680 [doc view by subscription] www.british-history : [Huntingdon not mentioned]
Soper the alias of Dorothy Thomas,pamphlet “True narrative of confession & execution of the 9 prisoners at Tyburn, Wed 28 Apr 1680; [assume Soper the writer (or victim?)] : londonlives
Mr Soaper was 'barber' to Sir Peter Lely, the artist 1680. He was paid £7 by the executors of Lely's will. (& £6 to Mr Valentine for a periwig) : [perhaps the inverted commas mean surgeon/barber?] : [Sir Peter Lely (1618-80) 'the most popular portrait artist in England'] from 'Every Saturday' pub 1874 GoogleBooks
Robert Saper : Attorney General : 'in his Replication to City making an 'illegal law' for levying money, thereby oppressing the King's subjects etc' : 'Answer to the same' no date n.d, 'copy ? 1682/83' [presume letter from RS to the AG?] COL/AC/10/002/17 www.a2a
Charles Soper on jury, Coroners Court, Saint John at Hackney 17 Jun 1782 londonlives.org
Mary Soaper spinster m.4 Sep 1683; Aldgate Parish Registers: assume to Thomas Hunkins batchelor, previous record londonlives.org
Henry Soper m.Mary Bain 1686 at French Church, Threadneedle St; father Thomas : non-conformist bmd record
Thomas Soper citizen & apothecary of London, leased the manor of Hoselands & Coghurst lands in Gesling, Wesfield & Ore, Sussex : [1-3m NE of Hastings] (with Anthony Bower from Nicolas Delves) 8 Nov 1687 : Archive of Frere & Co of London, solicitors : ref SAS-F/414 : www.a2asee biography1646
Major Soper’s company of the Right Honourable Lord Dartmouth’s Regiment of Fusiliers at the Tower of London. Soper advertised a guinea reward for return of John Barnes, a well fed Cheshire man 27, who ran away from the colours & stole £5 from a gentleman. Uniform red coat, lined in yellow & brass buttons 24 Mar 1687 address London Gazette
Gilbert Soper buried, 1688 Westminster (St Martin in the Fields or St Paul, Covent Garden) London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
William Soper a mariner of Bermondsey, Surrey. His will 15 Nov 1690. nationalarchives.gov.uk prob11/402 : [scan available online]
Thomas Soper a dyer of St Clement Dane. His will 16 Sept 1690. nationalarchives.gov.uk prob11/402 : [scan available online]
Mr Soaper ‘appoynted to view the Druggs etc: And all of them takers in of poore 3 months ending 16 Feb 1690’ [‘Tho Soper’ mentioned on same page] ; St Thomas's Hospital : Governor records londonlives.org
Charles Soper, of St Gregorie's, London; alleged 2 marriages [so offered marriage bonds for 2 Miss Battens?] 15 July 1690, at East Garston : John Hippisley, of Emborrow, co. Som., Gent., Bachr, abt 22, & Mrs Elizabeth Batten, of East Garston, Berks, Spr, abt 17, with consent of her father : & John Gilbert, of Swandon, Wilts, Gent., Bachr, abt 25, & Mrs Susanna Batten, of East Garston, Berks, Spr, abt 22, with her father's consent: Marriage Alligations, Lambeth Palace Library : [?a Charles b.Holborn 1649] National Church Database
Charles Soper of Edmonton, M.sx m.Martha Barfour/Barker? 11 Aug 1691 at St Sepelchure; citizen, draper free 27 Jan 1674, son of Francis Soper D R of 38776; 1696 Ass Oath Roll; 1686 cook Carter Lane; Charles d.1723; will 1724 PCC 17 Bolton; children May m.Thomas Maynard 1704 & Martha m.Henry Johnson 1715; from Boyds London Inhabitants scan
Alice Soper m.Manasses Lander, 9 Sep 1691 at Zac Off Mge Lic; citizen draper app 20 Oct 1669 to Anthony Durham, Woolen draper; d.1701; will 1701 PCC 140 Dryer; parents John Lander of Farncombe, Sy & Elizabeth; from Boyds London Inhabitants &
Carolus Soper City of London Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents; Dec 1692-93 &
Phillipp Soper, gent, in list of 14 for town of Huntington : 'William & Mary, 1692 Act for granting to Their Majesties an Aid of 4 Shillings in the Pound for a year for carrying on a vigorous War against France www.british-history
Widow Sop mentioned in 1693-4 records for Metropolitan London : www.british-history
Charles Soper, lived 1693 1 of 319 paying tax in First Precinct of the Castle, Baynard Ward: City of London. Charles assessed at {£5.20 tax on £26 property rental value & £0.60 tax on £50 business stock value} : The tax was 'Four shillings in the pound aid' for King William of Orange's war against France www.british-history[see biography 1646 [perhaps a neighbour of to Mermaid Inn]
George Soper lived in Bell Alley, St Paul, Shadwell : 1693. Tax assessment {£2 Rental Value : 8 shillings tax assessment property shared with William Day '£1 12s tax'. The tax, '4s in the £ aid' for King William of Orange's war against France www.british-history
Thomas Soper The First Precinct [on London Bridge], Bridge Ward Within dist; Tax on Real & Personal Property (1693-4); Tax Levied on Rental Value in £4 4s; Tax Levied on Personal Property in £2 4s. londonlives
Thomas Soper, of St. Olave, Burrough of Southwarke, Surrey, apothecary. Probate, engrossed inventories 28 July 1694 nationalarchives.gov.uk ref 1694W [see 1646]
Charles Soper, lived at St Gregory (b St Pauls) in 1695 with wife Martha Soper, children Charles Soper, Thomas Soper & Mary Soper. Also children ['uncertain'] Eliz Baker Soper and Rob Baker Soper. He had a personal estate worth £600 or more [people listed if over a £600 threashold] - from 'London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695' : www.british-history & 2 : [Charles m.Martha 1691]
John Soper, a bachelor, living in 1695 at St Alphage. from 'London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695' : www.british-history
Thomas Soper Testator at St Clement Danes, Middlesex. Inheritance Disputes Index , Soper v Launder 1696 & Hammond v Launder (A) 1700 & Soper v Launder (A) 1702 (testator Manasses Launder) : ref C10/297/46 : www.englishorigins.com : also Thomas Soper in Beaumont v Dottin (A) 1703, C7/44/3
Thomas Soper, son of Charles, citizen & draper, apprenticed to Samuel Wells, 3 Apr 1700, Ironmongers' Company. The social status of apprentices to the Ironmongers' was generally high. Sons of esquires, gentleman and clergymen abound, though there are the normal numbers of sons of skilled artisans 'especially members of other livery companies' and a few from labouring backgrounds. London City Apprenticeships Abstracts '1442-1850' www.englishorigins.com :
[a Thomas b.23 Mar 1683, to Charles & Mary at St.Gregory by St.Paul (igi) : Another Charles 1695 above]
Mary Soper m.Thomas Mainard 20 Apr 1704 Enfield, Msx : Thomas was a distiller; St Sepulchre : source
Gilbert Soaper's late dwelling house adjoined South of a property in Dury Lane, St Martin in the Field & mentioned in it's deeds, 18 May 1708 : www.a2a.pro.gov.uk ref DBW/M/C/8
Thomas Soper, fisherman of Hammersmith & others [unamed] indited for riot & assault on Mr Musgrave in the chepel of Hammersmith; Upon full evidence, guily & well fined Newcastle Courant 23 Dec 1710 : [a Thomas a lighterman 1810, see sailing Sopers]
John Soaper, son of Elizabeth, St Giles Cripplegate, Middlesex, widow, apprenticed to Ann Maynard, 2 Oct 1712 [6 Oct 1715 mistress since married to Thomas Haynes, citizen & needlemaker, turned over to William Harris, citizen & needlemaker], Needlemaker's Company : [Seems some orphans were apprenticed to be needlemakers] London City Apprenticeships Abstracts '1442-1850' www.englishorigins.com : [connection? an Ann Thomas Haynes (ne Soaper) mentioned 1794 but her children b.1775]
Jane Soper paid 6s monthly (7 other women got 3s-8s) St Clement Danes Parish: Minutes of Parish Vestries 12 May 1713 londonlives [same 23 Sep 1714 londonlives] & 10 Nov 1715 londonlives
Francis Soper son of Charles of Edmonton, Mx gent, apprenticed to Joshua Galliard of Thavies Inn, gent £107, 1714 [3/43] British Apprentice List, from BritishOrigins.com; apprenticed to 25 Jun 1714; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
Susan Soaper nt70; Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents; April 1715; londonlives.org
William Soper m.Jane Browne 28 May 1717, at St Margaret, Westminster scan; bpts to Wm & Jane below
Brigitta Soper nr157; Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents; Feb 1721; londonlives.org
Margaret Soper : The person possessed of the reverssion after the life of in the 14 per cent nr5573 & will sell it or buy her life, or any person that hath lost a permit of 400l in Mr Stogdon’s General Remitance & let them apply to Mr Willis at Messr Cooks & Venables, Bankers, Lombard St & describe the said permit & pay this charge may have it again 12 Jul 1720 London Gazette
Ann Soper m.Robert Shareman, 26 Jun 1721, Stanwell, Middlesex from Ted Wildy's Marriage Witness Index
John Soaper m.Mary Pritchard, 16 Apr 1722, Ealing. Groom Note; Isleworth : www.uk-genealogy.org.uk : [a John Soaper was apprenticed 1712]
Mr Soper Bateman on Committee of Bridewell Hospital, Lon 1723 : londonlives.org
Francis Soaper, of Fulham Parish, accused at Old Bailey court of murdering Isaac Wrench, 'killed like a sheep' with a throat wound in Fulham Lane, between Parsons Green & Fulham, 11pm, 22 Feb 1724. Wrench's wife suspected Soper "a very ill liver, a scandalous fellow, having two wives & not living with either of them". A waterman took Soper to that side of the Thames before the murder. Soper lodged at his mother's house. A neighbor, owed money, watched for Soper & did see him returned home, but another witness said she gave him the key at 12pm. The next day Soper hid in his room until seen by a constable on a ladder, a knife visible on the chest of draws. Soper acquitted through insufficient evidence, but stayed in Newgate Prison, "till he find sureties for his good behaviour" : oldbaileyonline : [no suggestion from bmd list]
Charles Soper a draper of Edmonton. Will Register, 9 Jan 1724 prob 11/595 scan available online nationalarchives : [Charles m.Martha 1691]
Soper, a defendant in a Middlesex Sessions court trial : 'R. v. Soper' 1725 London Metropolitan Archives : [of the 7 cases that month, another case was Robert Sloper 'informer' v. Peter Cordell - John Delo re truth of information that defendant practises as a weaver, but no apprenticeship] www.a2a
The King v Soper; Shadrach Grantland of Low Cross, served a document to prosecutor, Joseph Williams of East Smithfield, Msx 13 Oct 1725; londonlives.org : [John Soper mentioned in 16 Oct 1725 session papers]
Richard Sopp of St Saviour Southwark indited 'with Richard Sheppard, brewer, William Samms' for impeding, with a crowd of forty, the Wardens in their duties with regards to beer barrels 1727/8 : Surrey Quarter Sessions. ref. QS2/6/1728/Xms/1A-E
William Soper m.Mary Pew of St Mary, Kill. 10 Jan 1730, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster; he of St Johns the Evangelist, M.sx; "p L.AB" scan; bpts to a Wm & Mary below
William Soper (son of John Soper of Sampford Courtenay, [Dev]) His settlement examination - recently lived in Middlesex - m.Elizabeth, of Winkleigh 1733, ref 2989A/PO 45 : A dispute between Jacobstow & Winkleigh parish about the settlement of Elizabeth Soper & her son ref. 2989A/PO 241 : North Devon Record Office: Poor Law Papers www.a2a.org.uk
George Soper, son of George apprenticed to Hammersmith apprenticed to Henry Noss, of the city, a poulter. Payment £15, 1738 [15/201] British Apprentice List page 5477, from BritishOrigins.com : & apprenticed 11 Jul; Henry at citizen.. [so Lon?]; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan : [a George married at Westminster 1722]
M Soaper, buried Hackney, 21 Jul 1738. [The only think we know aboout M is that he/she was 1 of 3 people buried in a woollen shroud that day in Hackney, as the Justice had to keep a register 'it was to support Britain's wool trade'] : www.british-history, doc.38823
Thomas Soper St John, Hackney, M.sex 1 of many requesting 6 days work be done on highways; 20 Feb 1739 londonlives.org
Frances Soper m.Thomas Garnier (Thomas b.2 Feb 1701 London, d.Oct 1739 Lon, age 38; Apothecary-General to College of Chelsea) Frances rem.Philip Hubert geneanet.org
Thomas Soper (c1662-1739) buried, age 77, St Botolph Without Bishopsgate ; London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
William Soper Guidott Esq, living Kensington, Member of Parliament for Andover, subscribed to 'Gentleman's Magazine', Dec 1739 : [2nd listing, as William Guidott Soper, 'husband of Soper'] : from Ancestry.com : [Patience Soper of Preston Candover, Hants, m William Guidott, 1737]
John Soaper & Jane m. bef1739
John Soper [?of Edmonton, Spelthorne or Gore hundreds?] 1 of 23 county jurers; at the Guildhall in King St, Westminster, 1 Jan 1740 londonlives.org
Thomas Soper, of Homerton [Parish?], refused or neglected to pay 4s 4½d tax, for poor relief in St John's, Hackney, due last Lady Day. [March]. He '& many others' were ordered to appear in front of justices at The Mermaid Tavern, 21 Aug 1741, to explain or pay. He was told to pay. His rated value, 12s 6d : Summonsed again to The Mermaid, May 1743, "rated 10s & excused *fo. " [unreadable] www.British History Doc.38833
Sarah Soper als Cogdale 22 Sep 1741 from St Luke, M.sx Pass warrant, St Ann parish, Blackfriars; City of London Poor Law Records source
William Sowper, ropemaker apprenticed George Fitzgerald, son of James Fitzgerold of Eye, Lon, 11 Jul 1743 at Bermondsey, Surrey; scan
John Soaper '1743-1794' composed religious music : [see the gentleman of the Chapel Royal 1764?]
Soper Hayter, appears as a Church of England, Royalist in 1745. 1 of 16 people listed as citizens & trustees of Mr John Hutchinson's Children's Charity. A Church of England sermon was preached St Mark's day 1745 by Thomas Newton who wrote to the 16 men accepting their offer to publish the sermon 'in these times of danger & trouble'. from 'The works of the Right Rev Thomas Newton' [this is the only occurance seen of Soper as a 1st name]
William Soper son of John, citizen & needlemaker, apprenticed to Henry Edwards a joiner & citizen, both of The City. Payment £6, 1746 [17/201] British Apprentice List page 5478, from BritishOrigins.com : & apprenticed 17 May 1746 Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
George Soper of St Martins, Ironmonger Lane, m.Mary Tomlinson, of Putney, Sy; at George's Chapel, Mayfair, Lon, 27 Mar 1749 source
Thomas Soper, lightermman of Twickenham, M.sx, batchelor; m.Mrs Siggs widow of Kingstone on Thames, 8 May 1748, at St Georges Chapel, Mayfair, Lon source : [a Thomas Soaper, freed from apprentiship 1749, Twickenham, master Thomas Soaper; Thames waterman]
Elizabeth Soper, of St John, Hackney, M.sx; m.Thomas Roberts 11 Nov 1750, at St Georges Chapel, Mayfair, Lon source
John Soper of Middlesex, his will proved Aug 1750 ref: 200040, Public Records Office : www.englishorigins.com
John Soaper of St Giles's, Cripplegate; dealer & chapman & Richard Edward Ashley of St Georges Bloomsbury peruke maker; bail; 9s.4d; 1s. pd. Crye; Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Document 6 Sep 1751 ; londonlives.org
John Soaper, Ironmonger Lane, [presumably the one in the City], packer 1751: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury : Division within Probate, Wills and Letters of Administration : PROB 20/2418 : PROB 20/2418 : National Archives
Soper Hayter, Mr. 18 Jul 1751. His porter, Richard Gill, stole large amount of his haberdashery stock '72 lillikin pins, 72 silver stay hooks, 793 yds tape,144 buttons, 24 worsted needles, 36 yds ferret, 6 pr scarlet worsted garters, 60 yds silk lacing, 10 pr womens gloves & more' - Transported : oldbaileyonline : [see 1745 above]
Sarah Soper, of St John, Hackney, M.sx; m.Daniel Miller 14 May 1752, at St Georges Chapel, Mayfair, Lon source
John Soper buried, 1752 London (Bunhill Fields) London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
William Soaper, of Southwark, 'Occupation; rope maker, textiles' 'personal notes: Bankrupt' : on subscrition list of 'The Gentleman's Magazine', Apr 1752 : from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists
Amy Soper, of Isleworth, M.sx; m.Robert Maclmillion 11 Feb 1754, at St Georges Chapel, Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair, Lon source
Elizabeth Soper v Henry Webber - stealing watch. - Sep 1789 ; Gaol Delivery Sessions, Old Bailey Post - 1754 [date disagreement?]
Mr Soaper, a young fisherman of London was leaving London by St George's, Surrey, 17 Nov 1754. He had heard an Elizabeth Webb was found drowned at Chiswick, her hands tied & told her grandparents. Elizabeth's husband paid George Capper, a waterman, to row her from Chelsea to her grandparents at Wandsworth & back. He returned saying, she fell overboard after dark. Capper was aquitted at the Old Bailey : oldbaileyonline
Jane Sopher, widow, lost 14s. 6d. Elizabeth Baker, wife of Thomas, was acquitted of stealing it, at Old Bailey, 16 July 1754 : oldbaileyonline
Amy Soper of Isleworth Msx m.Robert Mackmillion 11 Feb 1754 : Register, Bapt & Marriages at St George's Chapel, Mayfair, pub.1889 : [m.1754 igi] Google Books snippet : [a non-conformist marriage Record : from www.bmdregisters.co.uk]
Soper Hayter, bankrupt haberdasher of King St, Cheapside, Lon. Creditor meeting to proved debts 5 Aug 1754 at Kings Arms, Cornhill to agree on recovering the estate. London Gazette 29 June
John Soaper, 7 Jan 1756, Needlemaker's Company, took as apprentice Truston John, son of John, St Botolph Aldgate, London, (deceased) : London Apprenticeship Abstracts : www.englishorigins.com
Robert Sopper, 7 Jan 1756, of Tylers' & Bricklayers' Company, took as apprentice Smith Robert, son of Roger, citizen & cooper : London Apprenticeship Abstracts : www.englishorigins.com
William Soper, cit & joyner of London apprenticed Benja Howell, 1758 at London scan
Thomas Soper apprenticed to John Nunns of St Saviour, Southwark a brassier. Payment £10 10s, 1758 [21/187] p.British Apprentice List, from BritishOrigins.com : & apprenticed to John Nunns, brazier 25 Oct 1758 at St Saviour; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
Jane Soper widow examined & signed with an X; Samuel Soper, lately deserted his dau Martha Soper abt.4, left destitute. Apprenticed 7y abt.25y ago to Giles A Taylor of St Ann, Soho, M.sx [& is still chargable to St Ann] : Poor law settlement papers, St Anne, Soho, Shoreditch; 16 Oct 1758, scan : [if Jane his mother then assume she m.1739]
Jane Soaper citizen & merchant, taylor; apprenticed Richard White, 3 Mar 1759 at London; scan
Thomasin Soper m. John Goose, 19 Jun 1760, Twickenham, Middlesex from Ted Wildy's Marriage Witness Index
Brother Soaper, a member of 'The Soaping Club' founded by diarist James Boswell 1760 who met for humor & cards on Tuesday nights at Thom's Tavern: Google Books [Soaper used in several novels & plays, perhaps encouraging change to Soper as a surname]
J Soaper 'Woman', a Song, sung by Mr Lowe at Vauxhall, 1760 British Library
Soper Hayter, bankruptcy meeting 10 Apr 1761 at Guildhall to make a further dividend from bankrupt’s estate : 29 Apr at Guildhall meeting for a final dividend from bankrupt’s estate (Gazette 4 Apr) : [see 1745 above]
Miss Soper, a popular singer mentioned in 'The Court of Commas' book. It has lyrics to 300 current & old songs sung at the Dublin & London Theaters & Public Gardens. 'Repentance' by Miss Soper, page 200-1, but is not on the list of the 17 main artists in the preface, Printed Dublin 1763 : Thomas Gale database of 18thC books
John Soper apprenticed to John Clark of St Giles, London, a carpenter. Payment £10, 28 Dec 1763 [24/4] British Apprentice List page 1057; & Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan : [a John apprenticed to joiner 1769]
John Soper, apprenticed to John Clark, carpenter 28 Dec 1763 at London, Lon;
William Soaper [a magistrate?] at Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents; Dec 1763; londonlives.org
Daniel Soaper 'possibly an able seaman on HMS The Lively' authorised a power of attorney allowing £12 his share of bounty & prize money to be paid to a another 'perhaps he died at sea'. The recipient of this power of attorney & two other were forged by William Barlow & paid by the ships agent in London. He was sentenced to death for deception, Old Bailey, 14 Sep 1763 : oldbaileyonline. The 20 gun HMS Lively, a frigate, built 1754, 150 crew. Shelled Bunker Hill,1775, when 54 deserted in 3 year American tour. She foundered of Stornoway, 1782 (re-incarnated as 32 gun frigate by 1790's)
J Soaper in list of Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal 1660–1837, 28 Apr 1764, 1 of 4 for the year : paid £73 +£2 new year gift & ‘riding wages’. Appointed by the dean of the chapel, 10 priests & 16 plain gentlemen or lay clerks appointed. (5 priests & 8 clerks waited every month) : British History.com
Jane Soaper widow (or widows wife?), engine winder; apprenticed Eliz Logan, 20 Jun 1765 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green, M.sex; scan
Robert Soper owned? 'White Cross in the Ayte', 1766-81 (previously called 'Ship in the Ayte' then Eel Pie Hotel, Eel Pie Island, Twickenham - burnt down 1971) deadpubs.co.uk : [son?? a Robert Soper b.Twickenham c1781 served as a Dragoon 1805-15, discharged aged 34. From above might guess father Robert d.1791 & mother Mary took over until Robert was 18??] : [perhaps not to 1781?? as Henry Horne the White cross Inn from 1780 twickenham-museum.org.uk & Robert Soper ran Eight Bells, Twickenham from 1780] [map 1741 from twickenham-museum] : [The site of the Eel Pie Hotel where 1960s]
Henry Soper mariner, bachelor, St Mary, Rotherhith, marriage bond, 21 May 1766 to Elisabeth Foster : source
John Soper oath to Lord Mayor against Lydia Hescott, Rachael Mendez & Mary Oseley for being Idle disorderly persons & common night walkers & making a great disturbance in Hounsditch; Bridewell Royal Hospital: Minutes of Court of Governors 18 Jun 1767; londonlives.org
John Soper a lighterman, Hammersmith hamlet, Fulham parish, M.sx where he rented a Tenement of £4pa (paying Land Tax) & now rents a tenement of £5 pa; James Pond served the full 7y apprenticeship with Soper; Mary Pond 54, his wife of 18m, claimed settlement & parish relief from St Clement Danes Parish: 27 Nov 1767 ; londonlives.org : &
7 Oct 1778 Mary Pond who’s husband gone away & left her destitute claimed poor aid
John Soaper, Petticoat Lane... snippet from 'The Political Register' pub 1767 Google Books [see artists]
Charles Soper & Thomas Soper City of London Sessions: Justices' Working Documents Nov-Dec 1768; [possibly on the bench??] londonlives.org
Benjamin Soper a waterman of Twickenham, his will proved 24 Mar 1768 ref: 200037, Public Records Office : www.englishorigins.com also prob 11/937 available online from nationalarchives
: [another Benjamin will 1777]
: [a Robert waterman of Twickenham 1792 will]
John Soper apprenticed to Joseph Collins joiner & citizen of City of London. Payment £10, 1769 [26/86] British Apprentice List page 1057, from BritishOrigins.com & apprenticed 24 Oct 1769 at London; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan : [a John apprenticed to carpenter 1763]
William Soper; appr[renticed?] to Hadwen; Run 1 Oct 1770; Bridewell Royal Hospital: Apprenticeship Indentures & Disciplinary Cases; [most ‘runs’ also marked with ‘returned’, but not Soper]; londonlives.org : [Poor deserving children referred by parishes for apprentiships those at Bridewell considered highly desirable as successful completion gave the freedom of the City & a £10 charitable contribution towards setting up as a master. source]
John Soper says he works at the tobacconists, London Wall Mr Pool dd; a note in Justices' Working Documents, Middlesex Sessions: Oct 1770 londonlives.org
John Soper at St Botolph vestry meeting Feb 1771 & elected Covent Garden Precinct, St B; overseer of the poor Feb 1771 londonlives.org
John Soper, apprenticed to Thomas Hosier, leatherseller 25 May 1772 at citizen of, Lon; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
John Soper, apprenticed to John Morgan, goldsmith 31 Aug 1773 at citizen of, Lon; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan :
William Soper a gentleman, bachelor marriage bond to Jane Phipps 15 Apr 1774 at St Mary, Putney : London Metropolitan Archives, from source
John Soper & Jane Symes charged widowed Jane Buckland with being 'a barren bitch of a whore, William Symes's whore & the Miller's whore; Soper performed penance, Symes never appeared in court [Jane listed 1st in charge]; Buckland v Symes, Soper, D/D/Ca 434 (1774).. source p.316 : ['sexual reputation of millers immortalised in ballads'; no place given, so parked in London]
Ambrose Soper bpt.16 Jun 1774, Mary bpt.9 Feb 1776; Elisabeth bpt.22 Mar 1778 at Shoreditch, St.Leonards to Ambrose Soper & Mary (igi) : [??connection to the Spittlefield silk weavers also at Quaker St; see Henry Soper's m.1828]
Elizabeth Soaper lived in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. 1 Mar 1774. She weighed out a pound of tea for a customer, at her cousin's shop? in Smithfield. A (stolen) £30 bank note was offered. They could not change it, so Elizabeth took the customer to an acquaintance who changed it (for £20). Customer found guilty of robbery at Old Bailey. Sentence, death oldbaileyonline
Elizabeth Soper (1 of 66+ on list) Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy & Bastardy Exams; St Botolph Aldgate Parish: 18 May 1775; londonlives.org
Benjamin Soper in a list of several hundred signing a letter adressed to the King [perhaps disagreeing with US independence?] 17 Oct 1775 London Gazette : [Might not be a London Benjamin, but a coal merchant d.1777 & the petition mentioned trade]
: assumed family all bpt Southwark, St Saviour
George Soper ('Sopre'?), m.Elizabeth Crane 29 May 1777, Finsbury London, one child that I know of, Elizabeth, m.James Bottomley 24 July 1799, London. : Helen May looking for information
John Soper was a member of an Old Bailey jury 19 Feb 1777, under Sir Thomas Hallifax : oldbaileyonline
Benjamin Soper, a coal merchant of Twickenham, his will proved 11 Jan 1777 ref: 200036, Public Records Office : www.englishorigins.com (available online A2A prob 11/1027) : [see several Benjamin watermen from 1706]
Frances Soaper's examination under oath, wife of John who deserted her[?& was often infirm?]. He was apprenticed as weaver, up to 20y ago, to Paul Borne? hamlet of Mile End New Town in parish of St Dunstan, Stepney; Settlement Papers, St Dunstan. After 5y husband left him & he returned to his parents & has not gained legal settlement since; 30 Jun 1778; signed 'X' scan : [?a John Soaper m.Frances Jones 2 Sep 1776 'London, or Northampton St Sepulchre' from igi]
William Soper insured for £500 The fishing smack, in the stowage, Deptford Fire Insurance Registers 1778 & by 1779 Elizabeth Soper vitualler insured the stowage for £700; londonlives.org & londonlives.org : [assume the W William Soper fisherman St Nicholas Deptford, Kent 26 Jan 1779]
John Soper in Hammersmith, lighterman : 7 Oct 1778, mentioned in a poor law examination of Mary Pond, wife of James Pond who has lately gone away. He was bound & served apprenticeship to Soper. Poor Law Abstract GL Ms 2676/12 : [connection? a Mary Pond charged with stealing, Richard Faith, her father said she was reduced to a skeleton & debauched by the man she co-habited with. Old Bailey]
Mr Soper & Mr Dyne sung 'If we believe that Jesus died' at the interment of Dr William Boyce at St Paul's Cathedral 16 Feb 1779 : Dr Boyce a composer, organist & Master of the King's Music : source [see artists?]
? Soper living in Fisher Ln, Greenwich 1780 Land Tax register : source
Robert Soper ran Eight Bells, 11 Bell Lane, Twickenham 1780; In 1781 John Soper; 1783-7 Robert Soper; 1791 Mary Soper; 1796 Mary & Robert Soper; 1798 Robert Soper; (private residence by 1910) Licensed Victuallers Records from deadpubs.co.uk
Robert Soper, apprenticed to John Howard, watchmaker 6 Dec 1781 at New Brentford, Middlesex; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan : [a Robert watchmaker of Twickenham m.1813]
William Soper victualler, formerly & late of Craven Mall, Paddington, M.sex, 20 Oct 1781 London Gazette : 1st notice of bankrupts "Set at large from, & surrendered, or tendered to be surrendered, to the King’s Bench Prison, Surrey" : 2nd notice 27 Oct : 3nd notice 3 Nov 1781
Thomas Soper turner, dealer & chapman [traveling seller] late of London Rd, nr.Biackfriars, 'Parish of Christ Church Surrey,. Declared bankrupt to surrender himself to the commission 13 May at 5pm & 19 May at the Guildhall & make full disclosure of his estate 27 Oct 1781 : His bankruptcy certificate allowed by the commissioners 19 March 1791
Mary Soper m.Thomas Avery both of of St Andrew, Holborn, 15 Jan 1781 by banns, his sign/her mark, wit, witness William Godfrey & Richard Perry : Marriage Index from BritishOrigins.com
Sarah Soper of Hunington Dev; taken from Egham House; before Middlesex Sessions; Magistrate Hy Kitchin esq; Justices' Working Documents Jan 1781; londonlives.org : [see 1783 below]
Ann Soper a widow of Twickenham, Msx, will proved 22 Oct 1782 ref: 200035, Public Records Office : www.englishorigins.com scan available online : nationalarchives.gov.uk ref prob11/1096
John Soaper was mugged of a 2 blade, clasp knife & 2s 10d money, 10 Aug 1782. William Cole indicted, but no evidence given & found not guilty. Old Bailey court, 11 Sept : oldbaileyonline [perhaps the religeous musician?]
Charles Soper on jury Coroners Court, St John, Hackney 17 Jun 1782 records londonlives.org
Sarah Soper of [settlement] Honiton, Dev; from Egham House : [see 1781 above]
Sarah Soper spinster, St Saviour, Southwark, marriage bond, 2 Jul 1783 from John Potter source
Sus Soper on sick list, New Prison [?45 men, 26 women there] ; Oct 1783 ‘Very bad fever & very foul’ londonlives.org
Elizabeth Soper (X) sp. 6 years ago a hired servant to William Middleton esq of Harley St, Cavendish Sq, St George Hanover Sq, at 7 guineas p.a. & stayed 2 years. 11 May 1783 : Poor Law Abstracts [GL Ms 2676/20]
Thomas Soper bachelor, St Saviour, Southwark, marriage bond, 17 Nov 1783 with Mary Richardson source [?connection to Richardson court cases 1824?] : [?connection to John Richardson Soper b.1827]
Mr Soper was landlord of 5 Gravel Lane [Aldgate], a corner house. He rented a lower room to a fishman, Hyam Moses, a rather ineffectual defense witness for James Grant, a burglar sentenced to death, 4 Jun 1783 oldbaileyonline
Eleanor Soper nr 281 in Calander of Recognizances, Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents; May 1784; londonlives.org
Sarah Soper & husband, a shoemaker, of Monmouth St, Covent Gdn, 15 Jan 1784, rented a cellar, so low "that a man can scarce stand upright in it". Landlord, Matthew Costillo, lived in his clothes shop above, was accused of raping Elizabeth Tarrier (15) who delivered him beer from The Fountain pub opposite. Mrs Soper, a witness at the Old Bailey, 25 Feb, heard no crys through the thin walls that evening, (both she & her husband were sick). They had lived there 3 years, owing 3 months rent. (jury instructed to find not guilty) : oldbaileyonline
Thomas Soper, 290 High St, Borough, London : Occupation: 'turnery ware / house turning' : Listed In Bailey's British Directory ; Vol 1. 2nd Ed, 1785 : from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists
Joseph Soper m.Elizabeth Howard both of St Andrew, Holborn, 3 Apr 1785 both unm & John signed register, Eliz mark, by licence, wit, Mary & Richard Perry : Marriage Index from BritishOrigins.com
Edward Soper one of 11 vice presidents at The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers & Commerce, anniversary dinner 4pm at St James Sq. Lord Romney president. Dinner tickets 7s 6d : 9 Apr 1788 An advert in The Times
Grace Soper (c1774-1795) b.Devon, d.1 Nov [igi says d.22 Apr 1827] m.22 Jan 1788 at Exminster, Dev to William Chown (1754-1834) b.9 Aug; d.15 May both Exminster. Their son John Chown b.1796, Kennford, Dev; End of a reasearched maternal line of a person who took Y-DNA paternal test from www.ysearch.org
Eliz Soper* £1 1s of her daughter Etc; Lyd; admitted St Thomas's Hospital: 26 Jun 1788; londonlives.org
Joseph Soper jurer in Westminster Coroners’ Inquest 25 Jun 1788; londonlives.org
Elizabeth Soper housekeeper to Benjamin Keen of Kensington Collector of Stamp duties. She was deposed on oath 27 Aug 1789; On 19 Jul Mr Keen put his watch on the parlour mantelpiece as usual; Henry Webber dined with him & they went out 7:30pm; She went to look at the time & found it missing. Mr Keen returned 11pm & they looked for it; Old Bailey Sessions: Justices' Working Documents; londonlives.org
John Soper foreman to Messrs Nash & Sons, Marylebone St, Lon & Air St, St James; Cured of large leg ulcer of 3y within 2m & freed from itching in the blood using Maredant's Drops; Advert on 'Salisbury & Winchester Journal' 11 May 1789 : [fictional? no www mention of Nash & Son]
John Soper, of Holborn, 1789, subscribed to a linguistics book, 'The Genders of the French Substantives', arranged according to their Terminations, by B.Arleville, London : from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists
Thomas Soper turner of London Rd, near Blackfriars, in Surrey, bankrupt 8 May 1790; London Gazette; The Universal Magazine source
John Soper of St Andrew, Holborn m.Catherine Charlotte Delaplace of St George, Southwark, Surrey, by licence 19 Aug 1791 both unm & signed register, wit, Edmund Prideaux & Sarah Delaplace : Marriage Index from BritishOrigins.com
Dinah Soper English sampler 1791 with pious verse within stylized border, frame with label of London; picture frame makers & gilders W A Mansell & Co; North East Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. US; [but also a Londoin in US]
Soper Female Pills, available at Steers Medicinal Warehouse, Old Bond Street 31 May 1792 : advert from The Times
Robert Soaper/ Soper, a waterman of Twickenham, his will proved 23 Feb 1792 ref: 199818, Public Records Office : www.englishorigins.com Available online, A2A prob 11/1215 : [a Benjamin waterman of Twickenham 1768 will]
Elizabeth Soper (X) singlewoman maketh Oath 11 May 1793. Ab 6y ago she was hired and lived as a hired servant by the year with Wm Middleton esq of Harley St, Cavendish Sq, St George Hanover Sq. M.sx, wage 7 guineas pa & continued upwards of 2y. Since quiting his service she'd not lived as a hired servant for the space of a year & that she never was married; her mark; St Botolph Aldgate Parish: Pauper Settlement Exam : londonlives.org; Poor Law Abstracts 1742-1868 : [same servant & master 1783 above]
John Soaper, address Sion College, London Wall. Listed in 'A Musical Directory for the Year 1794' : 'Occupation; Base music', [presume vocalist]. Member of the Chapel Royal Choir, St. Paul's Choir & The Madrigal Society : from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists
John Soper Jan 1795 London; London Probate Index
Henry Soper; late servant to Ms Hopkins & Co, chemist is of 36 Paternoster Row, City; The father of a female bastard child; Mother Jane Bell of St Botolph without, Aldgate on Oath Before Rev Reynell JP, 28 Nov 1795. On 29 Oct workhouse of St Botolph, delivered of a child since deceased; londonlives.org
Charles Soper patient St Thomas's Hospital under Dr Cline; discharged 23 Apr 1795; londonlives.org
Soper left Neville before his apprenticeship had expired Neville v Soper. Soper possibly excused breach of covenant damages on a legal :technicality (Mich session 9 William III) : Book of notable court cases 1795 : google books [no place, so parked in London]
John Soper of Hounsditch supplied bail for King v. Abraham Levy of Hounsditch ; Plea Not Guilty; Oct 1796 londonlives.org
Captain Soper? - 'The Mercury', Soper, from Trinidad to London was taken by a French privateer from Guadeloupe, 20 Nov 1797, after a long engagement, in which the Captain & Mate were killed & 6 men wounded [it appears the Capt was Soper?] : from The Times 12 Aug 1798 : 9/746n
Sarah Sopher the alias name of Sarah England, singlewoman late St Paul, Covent Garden; For stealing 21 Sept; a basket value 4d & a bushel of pears 6d, property of Wm Wasteneys; Westminster Sessions: Justices' Working Documents 4 Jan 1799. To be imprisoned 7 days; : londonlives.org
Mr Soper, a painter & glazier, 2 Carnaby Street, Golden Square, 29 Apr 1799. He was a tenant of James Lupworth, above his bakers shop. John Clayton took him a casement for glazing. Clayton stole about £2 of clothes & property from Lupworth's apartment on his way out. The formidable Mrs Lupworth jumped the counter & gave chase, bringing Clayton (25) back by the collar. Sentence 7 years transportation : oldbaileyonline
John Soper's 19thC pencil note to the rear of 'The Way to Health, Long Life & Happiness', a discourse of temperance [& vegitarianism] by Thomas Tryon, pub.1697; “Steal not this booke for fear of shame for in it is the owners name for if you die the Lord will say whose is the booke you seized the other day. John Soper, Lon"; Henry John Soper with his pencil address in Pimlico & Mrs Soper, with her ink address in Pimlico, London, “Old England” source : [not obvious below]
Thomas Soper, a batchelor of St Marylebone, M.sx, Will, 3 Oct 1800. Scan avilable online nationalarchives.gov.uk ref prob11/1349
James Soper, the last survivor of the trustees to a settlement 24 Oct 1800, Elizabeth Page bequeathed £3,500, the interest to be paid by trustees. In Page v Soper 1853, Page requested defendant Soper to sell 1,313l assets & pay interest & costs of all parties (Elizabeth m. Edward Taylor Garnett who died 1802, then remarried Thomas Page 1810, he died June 1849) : from High Court of Chancery 1853 http://books.google.com/books?id=pGoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA323&dq=soper+date:1500-1900&num=100&as_brr=0#PPR1,M1. [Presume James 25+ in 1800 so 78+ - bmd has 8 James who died within 10 years – but no ages recorded] - [no place given so record parked in London]
Hannah Soper charged on the oath of that Ann Davies assaulted her; Ann committed Surrey county gaol 14 Feb 1800, by G Fournier; 18 Feb Surrey Qtr Sessions at Newington; no indictment brought; discharged [fmp]
Samuel Soper (Doctor), of London, moved to Newfoundland early 1800's. His daughter, Elizabeth, m.James Simmonds, from Madonna, [email protected] Samuel's paternal ggg.granddaughter, Jan 2002 : source
William Souper b.16 Mar 1800, St Pancras, Old Church, Lon; to William Henry Souper & Amelia Ann :
John Souper of St Martins supplied a Scottish company [no date] Book on Jewish Scotland p.189
Henry Soper & John Coleman fishermen taken into custody at work with their nets at Wandsworth, fishing for smelts, contrary to laws by John Rough, assisting bailiff. Coleman fined £7 & equipment destroyed (he'd stalled the tide with 2 anchors); Soper & others severely repremanded & nets detained until after smelt season; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.London 3 Mar 1801), from newspapers.bl.uk
Elizabeth Soper b.1801 Twickenham, Lon : m.Samuel Mesley 18 Sep 1825, St George, Hanover Sq source : d.31 Mar 1885 8 children 1826>1844 (Samuel b.1793 Lewes, Sx 1st m.Elizabeth Pidington 1817, St Pancras [b.1778 : d.3 Jun 1825 Twickenham] : d.20 Mar 1868 Brentford Family Treemaker of Greg Tomas Black [m.also in Boyd's Marriage Index, www.englishorigins.com]
Rous Dotten Souper bapt, 31 Mar 1802, St Marylebone, St.Mary, Marylebone Rd, Lon; to William Henry Souper & Amelia Ann : [family 1797]
Henry Soper & John Coleman fishermen taken into custody by John Rough, assisting bailiff at work with their nets at Wandsworth, fishing for smelts, contrary to laws find, Coleman fined £7 & equipment destroyed (he'd stalled the tide with 2 anchors); Soper & others severely repremanded & nets detained until after smelt season; in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 3 Mar 1801, from newspapers.bl.uk
James Soper (2 copies) one of many subscribers to 'Poems, on Moral & Religious Subjects' (pub 1803) by Mrs Alice Flowerde (1759-1830) who taught 'a limited number of young ladies' at Upper Terrace, High St, Islington : source
Mr Soper merchant of 81 Mark Ln*, Fenchurch St, requesting charitable donations from the gentry for young family, the eldest held in prison for debt for some months by an unfeeling creditor from The Morning Post between Oct 1802 & May 1803, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [annual payment, recorded 1804, 05 (both John & James), '07, '08] : [see John Soper 1813] : [*now a road of modern buildings nr Fenchurch St Station]
J Soper contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark, in Morning Chronicle, 17 May 1804, from newspapers.bl.uk : [see John Soper 1813]
Robert Soper (c1781-?), b.Twickenham served in the 15th Dragoons (Light) 1805-1815, discharged aged 34 The National Archives, Kew. Cavalry of the Line record, ref WO 97/125/43 : [see Military Sopers]
Philip Soper bur.1805 at Queen Street Independent Chapel at Ratcliff [nr Stepney], London : more details available from Non-Conformist bmdregisters
Sarah Soper m.John Penn 1805 Rotherhithe. The line moved Darlington 1860s; from researcher Lynn 2008 genesreunited : [a Capt William Soper's family at Rotherhithe m.1795]
Martha Soper m.David Dunton, 8 Jun 1806, Hillingdon, Middlesex, both of Uxbridge, from Ted Wildy's Marriage Witness Index
Edward Soper b.1847 Haggerston, Shoreditch, Lon. to Rev William Soper & Mary Ann Atwood 1829 Deal, Kt : [previous child b.1843 Margate where parents school teachers; '51cen William 45 london city missionary at 48 Sloane Sq, M.sx]
Henry Soper (c1761-1806) buried, age 45, London (Bunhill Fields); London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
Sarah Soper, widow of Garden Court, City of London, 4 Aug 1807, prob 11/1466, available online from National Archives
John Soper & James Soper both contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark (membership cost 1 guinea pa - some paid more), in Morning Post 10 Jun 1808
Thomas Soper, of Grosvenor Sq, St George. Will 23 May 1808, prob 11/1480, available online from National Archives
Isabella Soper, administration letter, widow of St John Zachary London, 23 May 1808, ref ir 26/382, available online : [an Isabella Badger m Philip Soper, Shoreditch, 1783] : Also 'admin by decree', London Probate Index
Mary Soper m.Henry Wallis both of of St Andrew, Holborn, 3 Jul 1808 by banns, both unm & his sign/her mark, wit, John & Bridget Hewitt : Marriage Index from BritishOrigins.com
Mr Soper leased an oil shop at low rent (with 14y to run), in front of High Rd, Lambeth Marsh, opposite Astleys Theatre, on Surrey side of Westminster Bridge; part of a livery stables plot, for auction 28 Sep, in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon); from newspapers.bl.uk; scan
J Soper & Co 13 Finch Lane, Cornhill. Many adverts placed in The Times, by this company at least from 1809, selling businesses, renting premises, employment adverts
J Soper & J Soper both contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark; Refuge for the destitute, Cupers Bridge, Lambeth, at anniversary Dinner 26 Jan, £755 collected, in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 8 Feb 1809; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [& 1811]
Walter Soper & Elizabeth non-conformist bapt of Lucretia Soper bapt.1809 bmdregisters
William brass finisher m.Susannah : [assume bef.1809]
Thomas Soper (c1783-1809) a 'spare man aged 26', died of a rattle-snake bite 28 Oct 1809. He'd been drinking. Visiting Mrs Mary Womnerwell 17 Oct, he left to bring his wife back for tea. Returned unseen for his umberella The 4 to 5 ft snake was in a cage in a public show-room in Piccadilly, he opened a cage, teased it with a wooden ruler, dropped it & put his hand in the cage to retrieve it. He was bitten twice, 2:30pm on thumb & fore finger. He took this casualy & was treated with jalap, by a local chemist for intoxication due to erratic behavior. Then to St Georges Hospital 3pm in pain with half his forearm swelled. He died there painfully 11 days later : from The Times 8 Nov 20/746n : A medical book The book describes in grim detail how his body deteriated : also Thomas Soaper bit by a rattle snake in an exhibition shop of beasts & reptiles in Piccadilly : 'Annual Register' adds snake in an exhibition shop of beasts & reptiles in Piccadilly GoogleBooks
William Soper of Wandsworth, fisherman took William Penny [as apprentice] ; ref;K36/1/202; 1810 source; document; North east Auctions 21 May 2006;
William Soper of Wandsworth, fisherman from William Penny 1810 K36/1/102 : : Apprenticeship Indentures, Egham parish, Surrey [so assume from poor commissioners?]: source from exploringsurreyspast : North east Auctions 21 May 2006; google cashe : [connection? a James Soper m.Ann Penny Finsbury 1808]
Edward Soper & wife Mary Soper kept a shop in Soho & had stolen on 4 Dec 1811 ; 6yds printed cotton, 5 bonnets & 2 caps, value 32s. Samuel Gates 18, found in the Three Compasses with the items. Guilty of burglary, Old Bailey, 6 months prison. Witness, Edward Soper. I live in St Ann's Court, Soho. I keep the shop. The housekeeper is Thomas Gray, he lives in the house : Mary Soper. I'm the wife of the last witness. I was at home 4 Dec, between 7 & 8; I missed the goods after [a customer] left the shop. When I came in the shop the door was wide open. I was in the parlour & did'nt see it opened at all : oldbaileyonline [an Edward Soper m.Mary Taperell 16 May 1807, St Pancras]
James Soper 1 of 12 stewards at annual dinner of School of Indegent Blind, St Georges Fields, Surrey; tickets 12s; in Morning Post 17 Apr 1811; from newspapers.bl.uk : [& 1809]
John & James Soper brokers
Henry Soper m.Susanna 24 Jun 1812 Shoreditch. Said on oath 27 Jun 1812 that he took £30pa lease c.1786 for 2 houses in Red Lion St, Christ Church, M.sx, from Mrs Hunt widow. He lived in one for 2y & let other in tenements; Poor law settlement papers found he belongs Shoreditch Parish scan
John Soper, James Soper & 'a friend of John Soper' paid guinea each to Refuge for the Destitute, Hackney, abt 100 contributed, at it's 6th AGM at London Tavern; in Morning Post (pub.Lon) 2 Feb 1813 ; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
Alexander George Soper smith of Limehouse & Maria bpt.Elizabeth Soper b.18 Oct; bpt.14 Nov 1813, at St Anne, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets; scan; Parish Records
John Brown Soper (1812-1813) buried, age 1m 2d, London (All Hallows Staining); London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com : [son of 'James Down Soper' m.1811 above] : [John Brown Soper bpt.20 Dec 1812 All Hallows, Staining (igi)]
Samuel Soaper named as maternal grandparent in baptism record of Thomas Barnes bpt.1813 : Katherine Barnes bapt.1815 & Edward Samuel bapt.1820 : a non-conformist baptism Record : from bmdregisters
William porter of 1 Whites Alley, Coleman St & Ann bpt.John Soper 3 Oct 1813 at St Stephen Coleman Street, City of London; scan; Parish Records
William Soper fishmonger of Church Lane & Mary Ann; bpt; Parish Records : ['51cen a William 69 Battersea fishmonger inmate of workhouse, inmate]
- Henry Soper; bpt.31 Jan 1813, at St Luke, Chelsea; father a fishman scan
Robert Soper watchmaker of Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames & Ollies/Ollif/Olave bapt George Soper; 16 Apr 1813 & Robert 4 Sept 1814 at St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham, Richmond scan, &, &, & : also a Georgiana Elizabeth Soper; bpt.12 Sep 1813, at Shepperton; father Robert watchmaker of Limehouse & Elizabeth scan Parish Records
James Soper merchant of Great Prescot St & Elizabeth; bpt.Sybella Soper bpt.19 Jun 1814, at Whitechapel St Mary, Tower Hamlets b.23/25 May : [? "James 22"?] scan & scan; Parish Records : [??a John & James brokers 1811 brokers]
Charles Alexander Soper b.11 Jun ; bpt.1 Jul 1814, at St Marylebone, Westminster; parents Thomas servant of Limehouse & Elizabeth scan & scan; Parish Records
Tamsin Soaper bur.1814 St Andrew, Holborn; from City of London Burials
Elizabeth Soper St Mary, Rotherhithe marriage bond, 1 Sep 1814 from John Horsford Head source : [parents Capt William Soper (c1755-1839) m.Elizabeth, bef.1795 Rotherhithe]
- Mary Anne Soper bpt.11 Feb 1814 Winchester, St Thomas, Hants to Henry & Amelia
James Soper (c1730-1814) buried, age 84, London (St Alphage London Wall); London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
John Soper esquire of Burg St & Margaret bpt.Caroline Soper19 Jan 1814, at Edmonton All Saints, Enfield scan; Parish Records
William Thomas Soper; bpt.7 Oct 1814, at St Peter Paul´s Wharf, City of London; parents William a porter of Boys Court & Elizabeth ; b.2 Oct 1814; bpt by Richard Edwards, lecturer scan; Parish Records
Abraham Soper (c1767-?), age 47, found guilty of stealing from his employer, sentence transportation, 7 years, Old Bailey, 14 Sep 1814 ; Soper was brewery collecting clerk, for 4½ years, for Messrs. Goding, Cannon Brewhouse, Knightsbridge. He collected £10 from Bricklayer's Arms, Duke St & did not record it. When sacked in Aug he admitted he took £200 & wrote a list : oldbaileyonline : [2 Abrahams bpt.1767 Uckfield, Sx (a stationer & bought land Sx 1802 Edward Soper chair maker of John St, Tottenham Court Rd & Mary baptised Caroline Soper, Eliza Soper, Maria Soper & Mary Ann Soper; 29 May 1814, at St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London; scan
Frederick Soper soldier of George St, London & Margaret bpt.Joaicam Frederick Soper; 20 Aug 1815, at St Luke, Chelsea; father scan; Parish Records
Robert Soper, wife Mary & children Mary Ann 4 & Elizabeth (1 month) ordered by Kingsclere Parish Council overseers to be removed from Kingsclere, Hants to St George Hannover Sq, Msx 1815 : [presumably place of birth or marriage? As overseers could remove people there] : Hampshire Records Office [no sign, either county records] : [perhaps 1 of the 3 Robert calvalrymen at Waterloo 1815]
Joaicam Frederick Soper; bpt.20 Aug 1815 at St Luke, Chelsea; parents Frederick soldier of George St & Margaret scan; Parish Records
Charles Soper bur.16 Dec 1815 of 10 Exeter St, age 9 months, at St Mary le Strand, M.sx scan
James Soper esq, Prescott St & John Soper Mark Lane made £1 1s pa donations; from 'The refuge for the destitute, Middlesex House, Hackney Rs, Shoreditch', pub.1815 Google Books snippet : [see Mark Ln Sopers 1813?]
William Soper in Surrey Court, Summer session, 1816; sentence aquittal : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available)
John Stokes Soper m.Jane Colinborn Lesiter 4 Jun 1816 St Giles Cripplegate, Lon (igi); bpt.7 Feb 1794 at All Saints, Lewes, Sx (baptist) scan non-conformist registers ; to Abraham & Susanna Barlow, 1793 at St Edmund, Salisbury]
Soper of 13 South Row, Kennington. Mentioned in an insurance document of Richard Lamb with Sun Fire Office. 31 July 1816 : Guildhall Library, ref.MS 11936/471/921246 www.a2a
Soper (& Davies), at property on east side of Oxford Market. Mentioned in an insurance document of The Duke of Portland with Sun Fire Office. 20 Nov 1816 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/471/925112 www.a2a
William Soper of 105 Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, a grocer & dealer in British Wines, insured with Sun Fire Office, 12 May 1817 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/472 www.a2a
William Soper bpt.2 Mar 1817, [St Andrew, Holborn] to Robert Soper & Susannah, of Gray's Inn Lane. Other children ['if I have the right Robert Soper'] were Susannah who m.Joseph Dugdale, St. Leonard's Shoreditch [11 Jun 1832], & Leah who m. --- Jackson [where?]. They are still there in '41cen, looking for '51 look-up : from Jane Fiske source rootsweb : [Robert/Susannah Archer m.27 Aug 1810 St Michael, St Albans, Herts, also there; Susanna bpt.19 Jul 1812 & Leah bpt.31 Jul 1814 & John bpt.1821 Holborn]
Thomas Soper was knocked down, trod upon & was very hurt, when a fine blood horse being riden by a Gentleman along Arlington St, Piccadilly [Lon] took fright & ran away. Thomas, crossing the end of the street a Piccadilly, was very deaf & did not hear the horse, or people shouting. He was conveyed to St George's Hospital [Thomas no gent, so to blame?]; 'Hampshire Chronicle' 5 May 1817
Mr & Mrs James Soper & Mr & Mrs John Soper both contributed a guinea (2 of 20 contributing) to a lady just given birth to 5th child at Walthamstow, Ex, but family homeless; in Morning Chronical (pub.Lon) 21 Jan 1817, from newspapers.bl.uk
Robert Soper labourer of Christ Church, Southwark; Committed, Newington house of correction, for want of sureties, 8 Nov 1817 by Mr Sergeant Sellon, charged on the oath of David Shewell, with riotous & disorderly, at Christ Church parish; outcome, discharged at Surrey qtr sessions, Newington 13 Jan 1818; Robert of Windlesham parish, committed 9 Dec 1817 by Rev C Jerram with feloniously stealing watch, property of Peter Vine (or King?) of Windlesham. (Thomas Perrin of Windlesham examined); Pleaded not guilty, found guilty; Surrey qtr sessions 13 Jan 1818; 3 months prison with hard labour at Guildford house of correction [fmp] : [??a Robert (c1781-?), b.Twickenham in Dragoons 1805-15]
John Soper charged disorderly/indecent conduct; for exposing himself naked & in an indecent posture on the King's Highway, Camberwell; in view of divers houses; pleaded not guilty 20 Jul 1818, Surrey qtr sessions; On trial found guilty; judgement arrested; Tried 26 Oct; jointly charged [all same charge; so formation posturing?] with Frederick Raydenbow [?m.1828 Southwark; ?'41cen leatherdresser b.c1788], John Oxenham [?b.c1803, 1m prison, stealing wood, 1820] & John Drinkwater [?& assault 1793] : [fmp]
John Soper one of many who paid subscription of a guinea to Refuge for the Destitute, Hackney Rd & Hoxton [providing education & trade to 160 ex & penitant prisoners from the hulks], at AGM dinner at City of London Tavern chaired by Duke of York; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 27 Feb 1818, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : paid 2 guineas 1819 AGM scan : James Soper 1 of 17 Stewards at 13th anniversary; 6pm dinner 15s each 1820 scan; James Soper a steward 1820
John Soper paid 5 guineas & James Soper 2 guineas to Royal Humane Society for recovery of persons apparently drowned or dead; £440 collected in year, 300 claimants in year, 120 lives preserved; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 6 May 1818, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan, & & subscribed 1819 : James a steward at 5pm dinner 1820; a procession after dinner of the 'restored persons', Ladies tickets to view just procession & presentation available from stewards scan : James a 1 of 45 stewards 1821 (inc a Earl 4 'sirs' 2MPs & 4 aldermen, patron the King, president Duke of Northumberland) scan : John & James paid a guinea each 1821 scan
James Soper esq MP paid a guinea to collection for memorial to Princess Charlotte of Wales & Saxe-Cobourg [a full page of names] 14 Jan 1818 in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon), Perhaps corrected 22 Jan without 'MP'? ; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan &
William Soper (c1800-?), age 18, found guilty of stealing 39 yds of sailcloth, value 30s. Sentence at Old Bailey, transportation 7 years, 1 Apr 1818 ; Soper was seen by a porter entering a Fenchurch St warehouse at 11am. He put the cloth on his shoulder, walked out & was accosted after 30 yards : Soper said a Gentleman gave it to him to carry; oldbaileyonline
James Soper an officer (1 of 12 Stewards inc Lord Kenyon, Admiral Orde & Sir Hunter) at 5pm dinner & AGM of governers of the Magdalen Hospital, held at London Tavern after 1pm sermon in chapel [since institution, 4,700 young women admitted 3,200 restored to friends or placed in service; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 15 Apr 1819, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [James still on committee 1849] : [assume James, City broker; see 1813]
James Soper, of 7 Red Cross Court, Red Cross St, Borough, a gentleman, was insured with Sun Fire Office. 28 Jan 1819 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/479/951348 www.a2a : [?perhaps the James, on seamans charity committee 1823] : [perhaps died 1828]
John Soper (b.St Giles, Dev c.1787) m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 22 Feb 1819 St Bride, Fleet St ; 9 children bapt Newington, Kennington, St.Mary [igi]
John Soper Alsop was insured with Sun Fire Office, (through Elisha Gedge, of Chertsey Surrey). Possibly at Petticoat Ln. 5 Apr 1819 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/481/953771 www.a2a
Alex. Soper a blacksmith, wife & 4 children, 101 Brook St? applied to join the proposed settlement at the Cape of Good Hope [S.Africa] & 5 other blacksmith families Thomas Dunn of London Rd, J Cook, E Robins & Wm Perry from Limehouse & R Perry of 19 Brook St [Brook St, Limehouse, now end of Cable St was a very poor area] source : Sir, We the undersigned wish to know the proposals concerning the Cape, signed Thomas Dunn & received 29 July 1819 [Many applicants & no evidence this family was selected]
William Soper of 105 Brick Ln, Bethnal Green. grocer & dealer in British wines, insured with Sun Fire Office. 6 Dec 1819 : Guildhall Library, ref MS 11936/481/960898 & 9 www.a2a [insurance 1817, 1819,1928]
John Soper (1820-1896) b.15 Mar 1820, London : d.10 Jun 1896, New Brunswick; m.27 Nov 1843 Caroline Gamblin, (b.18 Apr 1824, New Brunswick, Canada; d.24 Oct 1893) : John, a wheelwright, lived in Saint John, becoming a freeman of the city,...after his wife died, he gave this land to his son, John Alexander McCurdy Soper.....Descendants of William Gamblin
Messrs Stewart & Soper, Army Agents became Jane Harris sureties; These 2 gentlemen in who's house she resides paid £20 each for her bail; Jane a respectable-looking elderly woman charged with assault on Earl of Liverpool. A policeman said he saw her leave Mr Loftus's grocer shop Kings St, Westminster, blocking the pavement exclaiming 'Oh you rascal, You old thief'. The 2 gentlemen believed Mrs Harris's plea of inocence, Judge Baker said I think differently; in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon) 11 Nov 1820, from newspapers.bl.uk : [address & job not vis by '41cen] : [seems company still existed 1897? (or 1842?)]
A Soper family at Oxford St, in 1821 census (page 266) & 1831 census (p405) : [full details available] : also a Sober at George St, Upper (p138) : from London Rootsweb, an enquiry by Donna Colyer, USA '04 [see also 1823]
Arthur m.Sarah bef.1821
John Soper saddler of Twickenham M.sx. Will probate 22 Dec 1821 prob 11/1651 nationalarchives.gov.uk, document available online : [connection? Susannah's will 1823?]
James Soper on a coroner's jury. 15 Aug 1821. Queen Caroline's coffin processed through London. Cavalry following the hearse fired into the spectators at Cumberland Gate, killing 2. Richard Honey's autopsy was done on a table at 'General Townshend', Oxford St. The jury viewed the body & shown the bullet in the heart. Jury found an un-identified guardsman guilty of willful murder & by 12 Sept the jury gave manslaughter verdict against 1st Reg Life-Guards, [a young officer identified, but the reg refused co-operation] from "The Last Days, Death, Funeral of Her Late Majesty"
Thomas Soaper & Mary Ann bpt 3 children (Wesleyan) at Walworth, Sy from non-conformist register 865: 1821-40 : [not vis '41cen]
James Soper contributed 1 guinea (1 of abt 100 listed) at anniverary of Jew's hospital, Mile End, to support the aged & youth; dinner at London Tavern 8 Mar; Duke of Sussex patron; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 26 Mar 1821, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
J Soper of 6 St Helen's Place, Bishopgate St, 2 New Inn, Strand or 42 Parliament St; adverting for 4 room of lodgings in genteelly furnished house of private family with no children in Greenwich; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 17 Sep 1821, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan: [again in 'Morning Post' 21 Mar 1822 scan2 ] : [James of same address seeking removal of death penalty for petty forgery 1829]
James Soper, in an Old Bailey jury, 22 May 1822; oldbaileyonline
John Soper of St Giles m.Elizabeth Cooke of this parish, at St James, Westminster, 19 Dec 1822, by banns & certificate, both signed; witnesses Robert Chatham signed & Hannah Chatham 'x'; scan : [not obvious '41cen]
Mary Soper d.11 Oct 1867, solicitor looking for relatives alive when she died. Next of kin; William Soper m.Sarah Soper (ne Green) abt.1822 & Sarah (d.1837?) & her sister Rebecca Green m.George Seaborne. Details of Sarah requested for action Naylor v Kettle 1912, London Courts : London Gazette Rootsweb 2 Aug 1912 : [a William m.Sarah Green 1821 Clerkenwell (a Seaborne/Soper not vis)]
Jesse Soaper Fowler, a blacking manufacturer formerly of King St, Islington, afterwards of Pollard's Row, Bethnal Green, afterwards of 15 & 16 Church Row, Bethnell Green, afterwards of the Spa Rd, Bermondsey, afterwards of 97 Long Ln, Bermondsey & late of 23 William St, Harper St, Kent Rd. Bankrupt petition at Westminster 6 Aug 1822 (London Gazette 16 Jul)
Thomas Soper & Mary Rhodes Soper, came from London in mid 1800's (I know pretty much the year) The couple, with many children, (inc son Joshua Thomas Soper) settled in Allegheny, Pittsburg PA. I have family history from their family bible if anyone is interested, Becky Hogue : source
Mr Soper, Mr Jackson, Mr Sillibone & Mrs Betton's bodies robbed from Garrett Lane burial ground Wandsworth, repectable inhabitants of the town, interned within last fortnight. Shrouds ext left in the coffins. Magistrates at French Horn Tavern, Wandsworth 15 Jan heard case. The indignation of the towns people, meant coach conveying prisoners to Horsemongers Lane [Prison, Southwark] was nearly filled with thrown snow. The Whites (labourers of Wandsworth) carted the bodies in sacks from All Fathing Ln, at 5am to St Bartholomew's Hospital & paid 55s at the gate [8-10m drive from S to N of the Thames]; in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon) 16 Jan, from newspapers.bl.uk : [The snatch, 5 Jan 1823, so burials 21 Dec-5 Jan - no obvious Soper in igi, a Henry bur.1 Jan 1823 but at St Botolph, Bishopsgate, very close to St Barts] : [Wandsworth bptms; Henry 1756, William 1783 & 1784 & James 1787 (igi)]
Susannah Soper a widow of Twickenham. Her will 11 Nov 1823 scan available onine, prob11/1677 nationalarchives.gov.uk : [connection? John's will 1821?]
Samuel Soper m.Abigail; 5 children b.Bishopsgate, St.Botolph, Lon; John bpt.5 Jan 1823; Samuel bpt.7 Aug 1825; Joshua bpt.27 Apr 1828; Sarah bpt.25 Apr 1830; Eliza Lucy bpt.11 Nov 1832 [igi]
Joseph Soper m.Ann McGlaran, St Mary Church, St George Fort, Madras abt.23 Dec 1823; b.c1799 Plymouth to Joseph & Tansine m.c1772-82 Exeter?
John Soper, of 6 Little Chapel St, Soho. A printer insured with Sun Fire Office. 13 Nov 1823 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/498/1010095 www.a2a
James Soper esq on 24 man management committee of excursion to aid Seamans Hospital Society (Hospital ship Grampus' off Deptford Creek). Hiring the steam packet 'Venus' to leave tower at 10am [& a 2nd boat added] & go as far up the Thames as possible before returning, stopping at Greenwich & Blackwall, tickets £1; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 18 Jul) 1823, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [?perhaps the James, gent of Borough, 1819]
James Soper & Mary non-conformist bpt of John Edward Soper bpt.1824, Ann Reed bpt.1826 bmdregisters
Elizabeth Soper (c1768-1824) of Queen St, bur.26 Dec 1824, St George, Hanover Sq, Lon; age 56 scan
John Downs Soper of 8 Upper Fort Place, Grange Rd, a gentleman was insured with Sun Fire Office, 4 Feb 1824 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/497/1014036 www.a2a : [see marriage 1811] : [perhaps the Mark Lane Sopers 1813?]
Thomas Soper, a shoemaker, of 27 Stonecutter St, Fleet Market insured with Sun Fire Office, 30 Dec 1824 : Guildhall Library, ref. MS 11936/501/1026097 www.a2a [see 1829]
William Soper and Sons, Enamellers & Jewellers, Ebury St, Lon. Victoria & Albert Museum aquired (in 2000) notebook & correspondence 1824-1902 (MSL/2000/14) also jewellers: Formula and account books, c1848-1901 held : source (City of Westminster Archives : ref Acc1627 Aquired 1991) : They made a plaque 13"x 11½" in 1953, for Winston Churchill (Part finished & temporarily placed in Sir Winston's stall,St George's Chapel for the ceremony. Churchill would not contribute to finishing it, so was returned. For sale 2003 for £20,000 (£18,500 in '07) on this site
Capt Benjamine Soper m.Hester Watts, [25 Sep] only dau of R K Watts of Bermondsey, 25 at St Mary's, Rotherhithe : from The Times 28 Sept 1824 8/211p & from 'The Examiner'' (pub.Lon 3 Oct) : [see biog in Sailing Sopers]
James Soper Esq a member of the Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys in Chimney Sweeping (14th year started 1803) 1829 p.321 : from New Monthly Magazine 1825 [?4y earlier!!?] Google Books snippet
E Soper & A Nixon milliners, partnership dissolved; in 'Morning Post ' (pub.Lon) 5 Jul 1825, from newspapers.bl.uk
Thomas Soper m.Mary bef.1826?
William Soper m.Sarah Redwood 1 May 1825 St.Dunstan, in the West (igi); b.c1797 boot maker
George Soper m.Harriett Gill 12 Feb 1826 Cripplegate, St.Giles;
Mr Soper, contributed £5 'from E M F by Messrs Willis & Co' to fund at meeting in Hanover Sq Rooms; Spitafield; For last few weeks allowances paid to [abt 4,000 unemployed &] distressed weavers of Spitalfield & £1,700 paid to Spitalfields Soup Society; £99,000 already subscribed to 'Manufacturers Relief Committee' & grants made to barnsley, Halifax & Yorkshire; in 'Morning Post' (pub.) 26 May 1826, from newspapers.bl.uk : scanHenry Soper of Liberty Old Artillery Gd m.Sarah Coles
Henry Soper & William Brandon of 23 Spital Sq, weavers, insured with Sun Fire Office, 24 Jan 1826 : Guildhall Library, : ref MS 11936/507 www.a2a
Henry Soper (c1802-1867) silk weaver
Mary Anne Soper (c1813-?) the victim of assault with great violence with intent to commit a rape. George Carrots, a soldier of the Colstream Foot Guards & committed for trial. A surgeon 'the prisoner barely escaped completing an offence that would have risked his life' : from The Times 26 Apr 1827 : 23/746p
Huldah Soper m.David Clark 19 Jul 1827, Huldah b.1 Aug 1803, Westminster, d.30 Nov 1839, Northampton.
John Soper (c1805-c1826) was a wrestler & flung all before him, not by length or strength, for he possesed neither, but by science. 'I consider that no man who ever lived worthy to be put in competition with Soper. He was tall, thin & weighed about 12 stone, although only 21 when the grim tyrant laid him low, he never met his match'. from an article in The Sporting Magazine by a member of the Burton Hunt [Lincolnshire], 20 Jan 1827 Google Books [parked here, but probably not London]
Sloper v Allen, sitting in Middlesex adjourned; Kings Bench; in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon) 30 Oct 1827, from newspapers.bl.uk
Philip Soper a prisoner, insolvant debtor, to appear at Court House, Portugal St, Lincolns Inn Fields 22 Jun 1827. Late of Lower Neptune St, Rotherhithe, Sy, formerly mate of the ship Ruckers, then mate of the ship Colonist, then master of the cutter Samuel, then master of the brig Speculation, then master of the sloop Sally, of Grenada, then master of the schooner David Graham, of Grenada, West Indies, then mate of the ship Percy of London, then mate of the brig Tula, & late mate of the schooner Harriott, of Leghorn [Italian Port?]:
James Soper witness at Old Bailey, 13 Sep 1827 : SOPER. I live at Edmonton. On 24 July, on coming home, between 7 & 8 o'clock, I heard our drying ground had been robbed. I applied to the constable. Next day I saw a pawnbroker, who described a person to me. I saw the prisoner carrying a bundle on the road & had him secured & taken into a public-house; I asked what he had in the bundle; he said 2 shirts; I opened them, and said they were mine. Soper's maid, Mary Maine said she hang them up at 1am. The thief, George Wilson, age 16, sentenced to 7 years transportation : oldbaileyonline [coincidentally, another James Soper apparently sentenced for stealing in the same court, on the same day] : [daus of a late James & Elizabeth Soper of Edmonton, Elhanor d.1888 : Sybella (1814-1891)]
James Soper 1 of 24 (mostly Capts) in management committee of Thames Excursion in aid of Hospital for Sick Seamen, office Bishopgate St, Ticket 10s,Wednesday 9:30am from Tower stopping Greenwich & Blackwall & going as far as possible, on Abion, a steam packet of Margate; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 11 Jul 1827, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [?perhaps the James, gent of Borough, 1819]
John Soper m.Frances Cooper 22 Feb 1828, at St Martin in the Fields, M.sx; both of this parish, m.by banns; both signed; witnesses Wm.Thomas & Chal.Perkins scan
Margaret Soper died 23 Mar 1828, age 17 at Warren's Lodge, Edmonton, eldest dau of John Soper, 'The Standard' (pub London 25 Mar) from newspapers.bl.uk
James Soper (?-c1828) comb maker of Red Cross St, Boro, London : 1828 : Bank of England Will Extracts, ref: 31 K-Z : 6515 www.englishorigins.com : [see 1819]
Jane Soper (1800-1828) died aged 28, at Brighton, 7 Aug 1828. 3rd dau of Capt William Soper, of Paradise St, Rotherhithe, Surrey : from The Times 12 Aug ; 14/211p : [see Capt William Soper (c1755-1839) m.Elizabeth, bef.1795 Rotherhithe]
William Soper 105 Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, grocer. Insured with Sun Fire Office, 3 Apr 1828 : Guildhall Library, ref MS 11936/511/1074714 www.a2a : [insurance 1817 & 1819]
W Soper 1 of 20 stewards (inc Duke of Bedford) for anniversary dinner with music, of City of London General Pension Society, allowing pensions to decayed artizans; at London Tavern; Patron Duke of Sussex; Tickets 16s; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 24 Mar 1828, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
James Soper bachelor & m.Elizabeth Heywood widow (both otp) 24 Dec 1828 St Luke, Chelsea by banns; both signed; witnesses Mary Ann Watts & R Dowd? : [Elizabeth widow & son James in Birmingham '41cen-'61cen in Birmingham & perhaps also husband James?? see Warwickshire]
Thomas Soper (c1828-?), a police constable 'B' Division b.Wethfield, Sussex born Wethfield, Sussex : wife Emma W Soper 32, a tailoress b.St Georges, Middlesex : son Tom J Soper 7, a scholar b.Debtport, Kent, at 14 Chesant Place, Woolwich, Kent (Bromley district) also Emma Merry b.Marylebone, Middlesex ancestry.com
PC Thomas Soper , arrested 2 men for theft of 2 bales of hay. Found not guilty at Old Bailey, 15 Apr 1830 : Soper was wearing a greatcoat, having just started evening duty at 7pm, 6 Apr, when he saw the bales being taken into stable of The Bell, Kilburn. The defendant's employer could not say if 2 bales were missing from his cart oldbaileyonline Soper owned & captained ‘Buckers’, a 269 ton, single deck river barque ‘with beams’, ‘proved iron cables’ Surveying port 'London Madeira', ‘A1’ October, Lloyd’s Registry of Shipping Jan 1829 : google book
Soper a shoemaker, was insured with Sun Fire Office, 12 Feb 1829 : Guildhall Library, MS 11936/522/1096157 www.a2a [see Thomas, insured 1824]
Martha Soper (c1812-?), aged 17, sentenced, Old Bailey 14 years transportation for stealing her employer's watch, 9 Apr 1829 : Martha was servant to John & Ann Eady of Dean St, Soho, from 25 Feb, she absconded 2 Mar & the watch (£2), watch chain (1s), watch key (10s) & seal (10s) were missing from their hanging place on the wall. Martha pawned it that day oldbaileyonline : [not b.vis igi] : see Australia
John Soper, 1 of 4 journeyman bookbinders at Guildhall for maltreating Mr Dee, a Blackfiars watchman, who claimed to be set upon by 4 or 5 men, while patroling through Ireland Yard, St Andrews Hill, Blackfriers at 1am, 2 Oct 1829, 1 with black wiskers jumped on his breast & prevented from springing his rattle. Dee in Blackfriers Hospital with broken leg & dislocated ankle. But a witness said Dee accepted a gin at The Horse Shoe, Friar St & talked about sparing. Soper in the other bar said he could knock his head without being hit. They both stood in attitude & the watchman fell, he got up & drew his stick, but in another round he fell over a kennel. Soper was taking his stick away when Dee said his leg was broken, the 4 men then left. Soper said Dee struck the 1st blow & was hurt falling. The Alderman dismissed them & Soper committed to trial for assault; from 'Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon 5 Oct) : Trial 11 Dec, heard Soper visited Dee in hospital, apologised & offered compensation, saying he was chosen, as the only boxer in the company, but his friends him & would not pay a shilling to help; Sentence 3m prison, Judge said it would be 6m if Dee was assaulted executing his duty; from 'Morning Chronicle' 12 Dec from newspapers.bl.uk
James Soaper esq a witness to the 1829 committee on Criminal Convictions, said, 'Were I forged upon, I would centainly not come forward to prosecute'. When asked if he'd come forward if the penalty was not death, he said he'd not made up his mind. Evidence p96 : from 'The Quartely Review' July 1832 : &
James Soper journeyman coach maker of 6 Smiths Place, Devonshire St, Kennington, coach maker; re, Matilda Greece, with son, said under oath; 14 Jun 1830 wife of Edward Green, m.23 Jul 1823 Shoreditch. He subsequently m.another woman & was convicted at Surrey sessions Nov 1828 & transported for 7y. She cohabited & by him had a bastard, bpt.Charles 24 Mar last [1830? : not vis igi] in St Leonard, Shoreditch workhouse & have become chargable to that parish ('X' her cross) : Shoreditch Settlement Papers scan; & her 10 Jan 1830 Orders of Removal scan : [not linked; not obvious '41cen, ??a James 42 wheelwright in Lambeth]
Mr Soaper, a tallow chandler, West Smithfield, advertising in the Times for a musical governess, to reside on the coast & 'complete 2 or 3 young ladies who have been educated on the continent', harp, piano, singing, Italian '& the general routine', Moderate terms 23 Jul 1830
Trayton Thomas Soper m.Ann Coates Wheeler, 11 Sep 1830, Tonbridge, Kent [igi] Trayton b.c1805 Heathfield Sx; to John & Obedience m.bef 1804 (Sussex?)
Thomas Soper m.Ann Lane 25 Jan 1830 St Botolph, Aldgate & rem.Susannah Buckmaster 27 Jan 1834, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney
Elizabeth Soper, insured 17 Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd, spinster : Other property or occupiers: John D Soper : 28 Jan 1830 : Guildhall Library: Records of Sun Fire Office : MS 11936/517/1103224 www.a2a [see John Downs Soper's marriage 1811]
? Soper, occupied a house & 's' [shop/stables], in Royal Hill, Greenwich 1830 Land Tax Register. The building proprietor Mrs Morris : source : &
PC Thomas Soper, arrests 1830 - see 1828
J Soper, moved report adopted & moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman at a thinly attended 9th annual meeting of Seaman's Hospital at Bishopsgate St [hospital ship Grampus], 10,000 seamen relieved, expenditure £1,450; in 'The Standard' (pub.Lon) 4 Feb 1830, from newspapers.bl.uk : [on the committee, 1823]
James Soper of 6 Smiths Place, Devonshire St, Kennington, coach maker re, Matilda Greece with son said under oath; 14 Jun 1830 wife of Edward Green, m.23 Jul 1823 Shoreditch. He subsequently m.another woman & was convicted at Surrey sessions Nov 1820 & transported for 7y. She cohabited with James Soper, journeyman coach maker of 6 Smiths Place, Devonshire St, Kennington & by him had a bastard, bpt.Charles 24 Mar 1830? in St Leonard, Shoreditch workhouse & have become chargeable to that parish ('X' her cross) scan : & earlier Order of removal 10 Jan 1830 scan
A Soper, & M J Ingesias of Copthall Court, merchants; meeting of creditors, 8 Jan 1830 at Basinghall S Court; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 7 Jan), from newspapers.bl.uk
Ebenezer Soper (c1799-?) a cloth dealer, was a witness at an Old Bailey trial, 17 Feb 1831. He sold 50 yds of cotton fabric, worth £4, to an upholsterer of Welbeck St, who said it was stolen & pawned by the upholsterer's errand-boy. He was found not guilty as the bale had Soper's mark on it, but not the upholsterer's : oldbaileyonline : [Ebenezer m.Lavinia Vaux, 1840 Tottenham]
John Soper m.Sarah bef.1831? a plasterer b.Bristol, Glos
William Soper buried, 1831 London (Bunhill Fields) London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com [also at Bunhill Field John 1752 & Henry b.1806]
William Soper 120 Bunhill Row, St Luke, Edmonton. Msx; Electoral List; qualification; 6 leasehold houses for years scan & scan
James Soper lease of house at Church St, Edmonton. Lon as occupier; so qualified for Electoral List; 1832 (when list started) to 1840 scan & scan : [connection? a John Soper's wife's family lived in Church St 1852]
William Soper home Brick Lane, Edmonton, (St Mathews, Bethnal Green) Msx; Electoral List each year 1832-6; qualification; freehold houses, his qualifying property Green St, tenant, G.Poynton scan & scan
a Soper occupied 31 St Georges Row, Chelsea, insured with Sun Fire Office. 24 July 1832 & 20 Feb 1833 : ref; MS 11936/538/1141967 www.a2a : [Thomas m.Mary bef. 1826]
Thomas Soper Slope of St.George, Middx m.Mary Baker 12 Jun 1832, Dartford, Dev, by L. Both sign. Wits; John Baker, Sarah Baker & Elizabeth Wills. dartmouth-history.org.uk (*?m. at St Savior, Dartmouth, Dev)
James Soper, on an Old Bailey jury, 5 Jun 1832 : oldbaileyonline
R Soper esq of Bury St, Lower Edmonton, & his son, injured on Matthew's Edmonton Stage at 9 o'clock. Racing another coach it turned a sharp angle at Lower Edmonton & was upset. 1 of 7 outside passengers he was thrown on his face & his nose split open & features shockingly mutilated by sharp stones. His son a fine young man in his 21st year was thrown under the coach, which crushed him in a most dreadful manner, another passenger, a surgeon found his leg shockingly shivered. He was conveyed to his father's at Bury St on a shutter, with but slight hope of recovery, (another had a dislocation the others & 3 ladies inside no injuries); in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon 21 Aug 1832), from newspapers.bl.uk : [only London born Soper in igi; John Brown Soper b.1812 but he d.1813] : [not vis above, presumably part of the cloth dealing/draper family of Edmonton] : [??two 1823 burials Robert at Spa Fields Burial Ground & Henry St Botolph, Bishopsgate]
Henry Soper, 6 Fort St, Spital Fields, silk manufacturer & George Jackson : Sun Fire Office, insurance : 5 Sept 1832 ref MS 11936/537/1145080 www.a2a : [same 1829]
William Loper in Middlesex Court, Apr 1833; sentence aquittal : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available)
John Soper surgeon, mentioned in The London Medical Journal 1833 google books [qualified 1820?, d.1837?]
John Downs Soper, gent, 17 Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd was insured with Sun Fire Office. 8 Jan 1833 : Guildhall Library, ref; MS 11936/535/1148982, www.a2a [see John Downs Soper's marriage 1811]
Policeman Soaper apprehended Henry Larby (26) coachman in his Hampstead Rd lodgings. He was capitaly indited of stealing a wallet containing £251 from a customer after a dispute about a 6 pence fare, 4 Jan 1833. Court report in the Times
Margaret Soper d.15 Apr 1833 after a lingering illness, wife of John Soper of Warren's Lodge, Edmonton : [he remarried 1834]: The Times 16 Apr 16/211p
James Soper of Mark Ln [The City, EC3] & William Soper of Rotherhithe & hundreds other City of London businessmen signed a brief address to his Majesty.... 'we desire further to dutifully express our entire confidence in your Majesty's paternal care....' [& similar guff, possibly aiming to discourage the new government from changing the 'King/Lords/Commons' staus quo] : from The Times 29 Dec 1834 35/761n : [7 Mark Lane entries, 1813, inc bankruptcy 1841] : [see Capt William Soper (c1755-1839) m.Elizabeth, bef.1795 Rotherhithe]
Ebenezer Soper of Cheapside & George I Soper of Devenport subscribed to 'The Life of Samuel Drew' [a preacher, by Drew's son, of St Austell : pub London 1834, printed St Austell] : [a calico dealer, see biog '31] : [Ebenezer b.St Austh , brother to George Isabell Soper see biog : parents George & Grace see 1795]
John Soper the master of James Webster, who stole, 26 Sep, a £1 block & a 2s book from him. An Old Bailey trial, 16 Oct 1834. Verdict Guilty, 3m imprisonment : oldbaileyonline : [a John bookbinder 1829?]
John Soper & Francis Knibb, under the firm of Soper & Knibb, bookbinders of Warwick Sq, City partnership dissolved by mutual consent. All debts, due to & owing will be received & paid by John Soper : 27 May 1834, (London Gazette 30 May) : & J Soper & K Knibb bookbinders of Warwick Sq, partnership disolved, 'Morning Post' 31 May : [a John bookbinder 1829?]
Henry Soper, employed Leith Adelaide Cooper 21, who stole bed clothes, books, clothes & a coral necklace : 3 month Old Bailey trial 3 Feb 1834 [as 1834 below] : Soper "I live in Spital Sq. The prisoner my cook quitted me Oct last. I missed these articles & went to Mr Titterton's, in Cornhill, where I found these books. I went to her lodging in Globe Fields & found her there with a number of articles she said her mistress gave her. I found a bed gown, which she acknowledged having stolen. The sheets have not been found : oldbaileyonline
John Sopey, the alias of John Buckmaster (employed by Mr Twilley, a greengrocer at corner of John St & Edgeware Rd). In custody a ringleader in a 500 strong mob who harassed & beat master butcher Johnson on leaving his Edware Rd shop, after rumours he caused a man's arrest for horse-stealing : from The Times 29 Jan 1834 33/761n [a Buckmaster in '41cen & marriage]
W Soper, a churchwarden of St Matthew, Bethnal Green, chaired meeting of St Mathew parish at the workhouse committee room. Government ministers had been dimissed & the sudden appointment of The Duke of Wellington as PM, the uncompromising enemy of reform. Reformers should join forces to overthrow him [loud cheers]. whatever the Wigs might have been the Tories were far worse; Motion & address to send to the King unanimously adopted 1) Every householder gets a vote 2) Secret ballot 3) Parliaments of 3 years; in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 20 Nov 1834, from newspapers.bl.uk : [perhaps the the W Soper grocer & wine dealer if BG, insured 1817]
Frederick Soaper, 52 Lisson Grove North, confectioner. Sun Fire Office Insurance 25 Nov 1834 : ref MS 11936/541/1187591 [his will 1845]
Richard Soper & Thomas Chapman, of Little Chelsea, M.sx, farriers & blacksmiths, the partnership is dissolved by mutual consent 26 Dec 1834. London Gazette 13 Mar 1835) : [a Richard, gun maker Basingstoke bankrupt 1841]
John Soper carpenter m.Mary bef.1835
Benjamin Soper, 9 Jamaica Row Bermondsey, gent. Sun Fire Office Insurance 12 Feb 1835 : ref.MS 11936/543/1194393 [same 1824]
Soper v Pearse, at Rolls Court Chancery Lane [presumably an inheritance case] : from The Times 16 Mar 1835 40/761n [a Pearse/ Soper household, Devon '41cen]
Soper v Pearce : Rolls Court, Chancery Lane, 'Morning Chronicle' 18 Mar 1835; from newspapers.bl.uk
J Soper, Mark Ln, London; a voter for Greenwich; Black Heath District from The Poll for the Knights of the Shire to represent Kent in Parliament pub 1835 Google Books : [James insolvent broker of Mark Ln 1841] : [7 Mark Lane entries, 1813]
Soper v Salter; minutes to be spoken to at Court of Review, Westminster, 10am; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 28 Jan 1835, from newspapers.bl.uk
Samuel & Charlotte m.Mar 1835 St Pancras : b.1809 Exeter to William brass finisher & Susannah m.bef.1809
Mr Soper a manufacturer of Spital Sq gave evidence that recovered 3 coach loads of property inc 6000 bobbins & silk from many manufacturers. To deter weaver pilfering, the Silk Act, made a possesor prove purchase, so no need to find who it was stolen from. Fine £20 : 1 Apr 1835, from The Times 41/746n : see 1836 Henry Soper, silk merchant
Police Constable Thomas Soper Nr 60 of F division 24 Oct 1835 took a woman to Guildhall court charged with theft : from The Times 42/761p
William Soper esq, treasurer of the parish of Rotherhithe 1835 : from Google Books
John Soper, I live in Greville St, Hatton Garden. I’m a book-binder. David Wilson 28 was in my service. I’d lately missed many books, here are 19 of mine, they were in my shop entrusted to my care & a great number more sent to me to bind. Wilson pawned 19 books (worth £2 10s) for 8s : Guilty, transported 7 years : (2 more incitements against him) 15 Aug 1836 : www.oldbaileyonline.org : [a John bookbinder 1829?]
Jesse Georgina Souper bapt.17 Jan 1836, Old Church, St Pancras, Lon to Phillip Dottin Souper & Oriana Jane : 'Jessie Georgiana' of Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean married Gerald De Courcy O'Grady
Messrs Soper of 32 Spital Sq, manufactured 2,000yds of splendid crimson & white silk, (13s per yd) to make a 210ft wide 'extrodinarily large balloon'. The gores are 3ft 9in x 150ft. 1st assent intended to 'convey 10 people a time into the aerial regions' above Vauxhall Gdns : from The Times & 'The Morning Post' 25 Aug 1836 36/761n
Mr Soaper's post office of Lisson Grove North, Paddington, 14 Jan 1836, the contact address for a 30 year old nurseryman, looking for employment : advert in the Times [his will 1845]
G Soper [master] 573 : Bk C32 : 269tons : [built] London, 1829 : Soper [owner] : [home port] London : [voyage] Lon to Grnada : 12 : [hull standard] A1 35 Lloyd's register 1836 : Google Snippets
John Soper at Grosvenor Row, St George, Hanover Sq, London; Election poll list 1837 from google books
Aunt v Soper, Court of Exchequer, Westminster; in 'The Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 23 Jun 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk
Eliza Soper m.Humphrey Bean, both unm & otp, she signed, his 'x', 25 Apr 1837; at St George, Hanover Sq, M.sx; witnesses Henry Boyce & Maria Soper scan
Ann Soper, died 26 Oct 1837, wife of John Downs Soper, of Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd : from The Times 28 Oct : 19/211p [m.Ann (ne Wrightson) 6 Apr 1811, St.Saviour, Southwark]
H Soper, of Spital Sq subscribed 1 guinea to 'Distress at Spitalfields Soup Society', providing 5,000 quarts per day since the opening of the house; in 'Morning Chronical' 5 Dec 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
Nancy Soper appeared at Marylebone Court, a miserably clad elderly woman at insistance of Major-General Sir James Cockburn of Grove Road, Regent's Park. She met him electioneering at Plymouth, she came to London & paced outside his house, he gave money, but she was there the next day. Nancy said she was made Lady Southampton, just before the late Kings death & asked to speak with the Queen. Judge Laing 'had no doubt about the poor creature's insanity : from The Times 16 Dec 1837 51/761n
Joseph Robert Start Soper (c1813-1851), m.Jane Selden Pearce Mortimer, Apr>Jun 1838, St Pancras, Lon; seaman, HMS Columbine, [Old Church, 30 Apr]. [Suspect b.Devonport* c1813 & has marriage cert*]. bpt.25 Apr 1813* to Joseph & Hannah Start, a Devonport shipwright, see 1812
Mr Soper, furniture manufacturer of 15 Cheapside said he had seen a portion of the property which he believed was stolen from his warehouse; Alexander Brookfield & his son a porter, accused of stealing an immence qty of canvas & other property; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 26 Sep 1838, from newspapers.bl.uk [assume Ebenezer Soper of Cheapside calico dealer, biog '31]
John Soper spirit merchant, m.Caroline Wills 15 Dec 1838, Dartford, Dev, by Licence. maker Both sign. Wits; John Parton, Mary W Leach & Elizabeth Wills. Fathers Dts; Peter Soper yeoman & -blank-.dartmouth-history.org.uk : [John Soper witnessed m. of dau of Robert Wills a spirt merchant 1843]
Elizabeth Soper of St John, Hackney, Midsx m.Thomas Roberts 11 Nov [year ?] : Register, Bapt & Marriages at St George's Chapel, May Fair, pub.1889 : [m.17 Dec 1838 Christ Church Greyfriars, Newgate] Google Books snippet
T J Soper of Albert Cottage, Cowley Rd, Brixon, (& of 9 Felix Terrace, Islington & of 6 Tibberton Sq, Islington): painting #181 'A summer shade'; #191 'On the N Devon Moorlands, afternoon'; #289 'A Lane of Pollard Beeches'; #583 'Eel Traps on the Yeo, N Devon'; #1159 'Study from Nature'; #214 'Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon'; 289 'A line of pollard beeches', #359 'Snowden fron Glaslyn, evening' : from Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1838 Google Books snippet : [see Thomas James Soper (c1817-1893), artist]
Thomas Soper (c1772-) age 67 , appointed to Raine St Workhouse, Stepney, Tower Hamlets by relief officer, 6 Mar 1839; diet nr.2 & discharged at own request 6 Mar scan
William Soper (c1817-) age 22, unm of Stoke Damerell, Dev Parish, admitted Castle Street Workhouse, Westminster; 5 Mar 1839, shoemaker, destitute, able bodied; diet nr.4; discharged by master 6 Mar to Mr Smith 25 Strand; with provisions after remaining 1 night scan : [not obvious '41cen/'51cen]
Thompson v Soper, Sheriffs Court, Red Lion Sq, London : from The Times 17 Jan 1839 54/761n & 'Morning Chronicle' 22 Jan : [a Soper m.a Thompson 1834, connection?]
James Soper age 3 admitted Southwark Workhouse; 10 Sep 1839 scan & discharged 13 Sep from Christ Church Workhouse 'in house for 1 day' scan; (& Wm Bendall, same age) lost children, of unknown parish brought to station house by [policeman] M64 scan : [not vis '41cen]
George Soaper placed a advertisment in the 1839 Whittingham's London reprint of a 1555 book The Institution of a Gentleman openlibrary.org : [He privately reprinted 6 copies of 'The Institution of a Gentleman' for distribution among his friends] : [George Soaper m.Mary Branson 1806]
William Soper (c1754-1839) d.7 Nov 1839, aged 85, of Paradise St, Rotherhithe. His wife, Mrs Soper survived 65 hours, dying 10 Nov; from The Times 12 Nov : 23/211p : echoes a Times report of 1828 (assume granddaughters) : Harriot Hamlyn Soper died of grief 11 weeks after her sister Jane. Father William Soper of Paradise St, Rotherhithe [Harriot b.1804, Jane b.1800, to William & Elizabeth] : [His portrait on right] : [Capt William Soper (c1755-1839) m.Elizabeth, bef.1795 Rotherhithe]
James Soper (c1820-?) age 19 & Stephen Garner 22 indited for stealing a silk handkerchief from Robert Cook's person, a barrister. A PC saw Garner collar the prisoners & Garner drop the handkerchief. A third person ran away. Witnesses in court saying they were of good character & silver plated workers. After 30mins consultation, jury found guilty of having possession, but not of the capital charge as he may have picked it up. Defence argued that meant aquital, so jury gave guilty after 10min, recomending mercy; punishment 10 days solitary confinement [jurys increasingly aquitted the guilty as execution posible]; in 'The Charter' (pub.Lon) 30 Jun 1839, from newspapers.bl.uk [also (unseen) Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com] : [??a James bpt.27 May 1821 St.Andrew, Holborn to James & Ann ne Thompson]
Mr H Soper described a sample of Indian silk of being very superior quality & much better than the silk from Bengal : from Guardian Newspaper, 8 May 1839, scan [see Henry Soper 1826]
Mary Branson Soaper m.8 Oct 1840 at St George's, Hanover Sq, to C A Parson of Godalming; eldest dau of George Soaper of Stoke (by Rev W H Parson), 'Hampshire Telegraph', 13 Oct, from newspapers.bl.uk
John m.Sarah bef.1840
A Soper Hexter Prayer. A sacred melody [begins: "O Lord supreme"], pub London 1840 British Library : [Hexter a prof of music , Devon 1870]
Elizabeth Soper ‘I’m a widow & keep shop in Princes St, Ratcliff Highway. The prisoner looked into my shop window, 14 Jan. He went away & came again. I afterwards saw him in custody. I missed 2 boxes of cigars from the counter, these are them’. A PC stopped the prisoner 200yds away running down Pennington St with 2 boxes. William Jordan 17, 7y transportation 3 Feb 1840. (2lbs of cigars value £1 1s & boxes value 6d) address 3 Feb 1840 : www.oldbaileyonline : [not obvious '41cen]
Mr Soper, a silk merchant : John Hampton a parachutist, an insolvent who owed him £100 for silk for Albion ballon : made Jun 1838: The balloon took £200 of silk. It is now in Norwich & being used by the insolvant. Hampton released from Whitecross St Prison (held since Nov) & discharged & allowed to keep a parachute; in 'The Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 3 Mar 1840, from newspapers.bl.uk [see Henry Soper 1826]
Mr Soper, 1 of 6 commissioners on court of requests, Osborn St, Whitechapel; judging case of loan society's mal-appropriated funds; in 'The Standard' (pub.Lon) 18 Dec 1840, from newspapers.bl.uk
Ebenezer Soper, (1798-1861) draper, calico printer, b.St Austell?, Cornwall;
John Soper, bailed to appear at Insolvent Debtor's Court, Portugal St, 10am today : from The Times & Morning Chronicle 1 Apr 1840 57/761n
John Soper I’m a beer-seller & live in Mead's Row, Old Kent Rd. On 20 Sept the prisoner ordered ½ pint of porter & offered a counterfeit half-crown. I detected it & asked where he came from. He said he lived with his mother in Horsemonger Ln. I said I'd go with him there. At the corner, he ran off, leaving his the coin behind. I saw him 5 days later in custody. Elizabeth Maria Soper [wife] 'I saw the prisoner come for beer I gave the coin to PC Brooks. Prisoner Alfred Jones 16 : 19 Oct 1840 www.oldbaileyonline : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819]
John Thomas Soper b.9 Mar 1840, bpt.20 Jun 1847 to Thomas, cab driver & Sarah, of 24 Hide Place, at St Mary, Tothill Fields Westminster scan
Ann Soper 25-9 & Jane Soper 20-4 at 35 Albermarle St, Westminster, St George, Hanover Sq; '41cen ; 2 of 11 milliners 15-29 with Catherine Gelling 45 ind, Isabella Gelling 40, Thomas Kinah 55 army & 4 servants 15-25,
Maria Soper 20-4 milliner, Caroline Soper 20-4 milliner Chapel St, St George, Hanover Sq, Westminster both b.M.sx & Susan Tancred 15-9 milliner app not b.M.sx; 4 others in another household in building Richard White 50-4 lodging housekeeper, wife & 2 servants 65 & 70 scan
Ebenezer Soper 40-4 a calico printer at Gibson Sq, Islington West (St Mary parish) Lavinia Soper 30-4, George 6m, wife & on b.London & 2 servants Louisa Dunmall 35-9, Elya Martin 15-9 [Cloth Dealer '31 - biog]
Frederick Soaper 40-4 cook & Eliza 30-4 at St Marylebone, neither b.London also servants Martha Garnett 20-4 & Gilbert? Miner? 20-4, apprentice William? Badgy? 15 : [a Frederick of Lisson Grove, pastry cook, insolvent 1835]
Frederick Soper 2 at Meargio Av?, Lambeth, St Mary Newington, Sy, John Chapman 71 leather finisher, Elizabeth Dutton 20, Julia Dutton 13, John Smith 34 bookbinder, Mary Smith 30-441cen : [assume parents in next household]
George Soper m.Clarisse/Clarissa/Clara/Claris/Clarence? bef.1818
George Soper, b.M'sex c1805, age 36, an umberella maker of Porter St, Soho, St Anne with Harriett 35, Harriett 13, Caroline 11, Emma 8, Susannah 6, George 3 (32 in 7 families in building) : [George m.Harriett Gill 1826]
: '41cen , John Soper compositor 45-9 b.?; John 15-9 & Henry 13, both b.Sy living with John Cardwell 40 carman at Gloucester St, Lambeth; Ann Cardwell 45 scan
: '41cen John Soper engineer
John Soper 50 builder at Meargio Av?, Lambeth, St Mary Newington, Sy, Elizabeth 40, George 17, John 10, Henry 8, Mary Ann 6, Alfred 4, 2 servants Sarah Rowell 14, Hanna Batt 20-4, all but John & Sam b.Surrey ‘41cen : [Frederick Soper 2 perhaps in next household, John Chapman 71 leather finisher, Elizabeth Dutton 20, Julia Dutton 13, John Smith 34 bookbinder, Mary Smith 30-4] : [John m.Elizabeth 1819] : [a bricklayer 72 ’61cen]
George 45-9 carpenter Arundell St, Bethnal Green; '41cen ; Dina 43, Maria 21, Catherine 20 all fancy box makers, Matilda 10, George 7, Robert 5, Clare 2, all b.M.sx
Samuel Soper 35-9, keeper at West House*, Hackney, St John, Lon : '41cen (not b.Lon), 3 other keepers Samuel Jennings 25-9, Charles Anderson 25-9, John Cropman 15-9, Lucy & Jane Appleton 45 & 15 housekeeper & housemaid & about 50 paupers, mostly elderly Irish Soldiers scan : [*West House, a pauper mental asylem see (nr.London Fields see)] : [job & wife implies ex.military??]
Thomas Soper 37 silk weaver, Quaker St, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Susannah 36, Ann 16, Elizabeth 7, Mary 6, Sarah 2, Eliza 3m & Susannah Buckmaster? 17, Thomas Buckmaster 11, all b.M.sx [Thomas m.Susannah Buckmaster 1834]
William Soper 80-4 of independant means, Sarah 60-4 & William 40-4 (ind), Pricillor Paddington 15 servant : St James Place, Bethnal Gn, Tower Hamlets : [William d.1848] : [perhaps son William grocer of Bethal Gr insured 1817]
end of 1841 census
John Soper Gadwell m.Oct>Dec 1841, Hackney, Lon & d.Oct>Dec 1875, age 57 Holborn, Lon; [if d. then why] John Soper Gladwell Residence: 1879 city, London; Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Ebenezer Soper , a juror name Old Bailey proceedings, 29 Nov 1841 source [Cloth Dealer '31 - biog]
H Soper. 1 of 4 silk manufacturers & 18 of the committee of journeymen have united to for a pictorial & emblematic specimen of the art of silk weaving, offered for her Majesty's acceptance & which will cost £100's, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon), 19 Jan 1841; scan [see 1826]
James Soper broker of Mark Ln, City of London, declared that he is in insolvent circumstances & is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. Bankruptcy Notice filed 26 Mar 1841 (London Gazette 26 Mar) : Became bankrupt 1 Apr : to surrender himself 11am 13 Apr & 14 May at Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall St, Lon, before Commissioner Evans & give full disclosure & creditors to attend & prove their debts; assignee Mr Lackington Co, Coleman St & solicitors Bolton & Merriman London Gazette 2 Apr : 2 Oct 2pm at Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall St (London Gazette 7 Sep) : Court 7 Oct (10 Sep) : [7 Mark Lane entries, 1813]
Ann Soper, Miss, a lodger at 35 Albermarle St, Picadilly, insured in the Westminster Fire Office (35 Occupied by Messrs Wild & Gilling, miliners, insured elsewhere); Fire damage 15-35, George Hotel 33-4 totally destroyed; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 4 May 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk : ['41cen Ann & Jane milliners]
Mr Soper, 1 of 8 in Duke of Brunswick in the 280th assent of the Nassau balloon pilot Mr Green, from it's usual place in Vauxhall Gdns at 6:40pm. The immence balloon was visable for a considerable time As it drifted slowly in gentle NW wind. They failed to land in Sidneys Pk, landed in a clover field but a stupid boy did not put the anchor in the ground when asked & they assended again in corn just before a large wood; in 'The Standard' (pub.) 27 Jul 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk
Frederick Soaper, of Lisson Grove, pastry cook, insolvent debtor 15 Jan 1842 : from GoogleBooks [his will 1845] : [a Frederick cook & Mary at St Marylebone '41cen]
George Soper m.Sarah Waby Jan>Mar 1842, London West, Lon (bmd); George b.c1822 Hackney
Thomas Soper Talbot, 1 of 3 nephews sharing estate of Jesse Talbot in his will Sept 1842. Thomas also was left £100, court decided that though Jesse mean Thomas's son Thomas Talbot, he used the word Soper, so Soper Talbot got the £100 not his son. : from Google Books [probably not London]
G Soaper Esq Henrietta St, Holloway, mentioned in 'Strawberry Hill', pub 1842 : snippets have 2 sums against his name £20 10s & £15 15s : GoogleBooks
G Soaper, assignee appointed - to insolvent debtor, William Lutyn, sen., South Crescent, Bedford Sq, Tottenham Court Rd, dentist, No 52,806T, 23 Apr 1842 : from GoogleBooks
J Lys? Soaper a director of Western Life Assurance (12th of 14) , 1 Parliament St, London, founded 1842 : advert selling annuities in 'Notes and Queries' magazine 1853 : GoogleBooks
Soper v Soper 'short case' Vice Chancellors Courts, Lincolns Inn : from The Times 19 Mar 1842 70/746n
James Soper age 30 protestant, destitute carpenter, of Brighton Parish, admitted to Castle Street Workhouse, Westminster; 13 May 1842, Ward P scan discharged, 15 May scan 14 May, casual; P W Ward scan admitted Westminster; 14 May destitute; 2d stay; cost 1/- scan; discharged from Castle St; 15 May, left with provisions after remaining one night scan : [not obvious '41/'51cen]
Ebenezer Soper of 15 Cheapside, Lon, lately employed part time as a traveller [salesman], Esward Hale Hughes of Alderbury who was bankrupted 1842 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21352/pages/2325">London Gazette 24 Aug) : [cloth dealer '31 - biog]
in Robsons London Directory 1842 & Post Office London Directory 1843 google books & source
Mrs Soper; Chelsea contributed 5s 0d to British & Foreign Bible Society, pub.1843 Google Books snippet
Hannah Ann Soper (1843-1922) b.3 Aug 1843, London. d.27 Jan 1922 in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada : married, 9 May 1862 in Renfrew, to Henry Josiah Stevenson (b.15 Apr 1840, London : d.1906 Renfrew), a son born 1877 source : [Hannah Ann Soper b.Jul>Sep 1843, Thanet, Kt] : ['51cen a Hannah Soper 7 in M.sx; b.Kent]
: ['61cen a Hannah A Soper, 17gen serv b.Margate, Kent; in Albert Terrace, St Mary Wilts in the household of Thomas Reade 50, a surgeon, b.Leeds, Yorks, wife Jessie 39 b.Isle of Man & 5 children 1-12 all b.St Mary Wilts (if her, she had a busy year & married young)]
Rev John Soper of Magdalen Hall, appointed to the curacy of St Mary's Church, Haggerstone, M.sx : 19 Jun 1843 : from The Times : 31/211p
Susan Soper I have the care of William Walker's house [a wine merchant of Farringdon St] at 15 New St, Cloth Fair. At 11am 30 Jan a neighbour gave me information. I looked inside. I came out, they said, "That man has taken the lead went round the street". I went after the prisoner & brought him back with the lead on his shoulder. I said, "Who authorised you to take the lead from the roof". He said, "Mr Walker". I said he’d let me know if any man did work. 48lbs of lead worth 6s, James Gloster 29 got 6m; 12 Mar 1843 oldbaileyonline.org [Susan presumably young if she retrieved a 29y man even with jockey club handicap]
Harriet Soper m.Job Artlett 1843 at Kensington, Lon : father Samuel Soper : Emma Wales witness, document held by Society of Australian Genealogists www.sag.org.au : [no visable Lon or Oz link] : ['41cen; Harriet 22 at Buke House, Kensington, hamlet of Brompton, M.sx ;servant with Viscount Ingeshe 37, Lady Sarah, Honorable Victoria Talbot 10, Walter 7, Constance 5, Gertrude 1, governess 50 & 12 servants 6m & 6f inc Harriet 22]
Harriot Sarah Soper (c1797-1843) died aged 46, 5 Aug 1843 at Bethnal Green, wife of W Soper esq google books snippet : [not vis '41cen] : [Harriot S Alexander m.Wm Soper at Westminster (St George Hanover Sq) 1798 - too young unless '66'?] : [Harriott Sarah d.Jul>Sep 1843 Bethnal Gn]
Elizabeth Soper of Manor Place, Kings Rd, Chelsea m.James Edmunds, formerly of this city (London/Bangor?) at All Souls, Langan Place, London; in 'North Wales Chronicle (pub.Bangor) 10 Oct 1843, from scan : [m.Oct>Dec Marylebone dist] : ['41cen; 8 Sopers in Chelsea; no Eliz]
Miss Elizabeth Soper of Manor Place, Kings Rd, Chelsea m.James Edmunds, formerly of the city, on the 5 Oct 1843 at All Souls Church, Langan Place Lon, 'North Wales Chronicle' (pub.Bangor), 10 Oct; from newspapers.bl.uk
John Soper, William Baker & Julian Steer witnessed m.at Dartford, Dev of Joseph John Baker, gent of Hillesden, M.sx & Harriet Porter Wills 11 Oct 1843. Fathers; Joshua Baker, auctioner & Robert Wills, spirit merchant dartmouth-history.org.uk : [John Soper a spirit merchant m.Caroline Wills 1838]
J Soper Streeter on Committee of Phrenological Association [UK] next meet London, then Edinburgh 1843 from The American Phrenological Journal 1843 Google Books snippet
Mr Soper, 1 of 8 on Commissions declared at numerous meeting of silk manufacturers & dealers at Weaver's Hall, Basinghall St, 23 Feb 1843 to discuss the tax frauds on importation of foreign silk goods & steps to secure collection of duty; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 24 Feb 1843, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [see Henry Soper 1826]
John Soper 1 Hemblington Cottages, St Leonard, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets; house qualified him for Electoral List; 1844-5 scan & scan
Robert Soper 17 Paterson Street, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets house qualified him for Electoral List; 1844-73 scan; scan
Elizth Soper (c1836-) discharged by own request 1 Mar 1844, Christ Church Workhouse, Southwark; age 8; after 8w 3d at house; London Workhouse Registers scan; also 17 Apr 1844 after 4w 1d at house ; discharged by P Board scan & assume same Elizth discharged 7 Jun 1849 after 33w 2d at workhouse, discharged bt committee scan
William Redwood Soper m.Sarah Ann Pain Jul>Sep 1844, Bloomsbury, Lon; William Redwood Soper bpt.3 Dec 1826 & bpt.17 Jun 1829 St.Pancras. Old Church, Lon to William & Sarah Redwood who m.1825
Rev G Soper, MA took a 1844 wedding, Haggerstone Church, Lon (Monday last) Joseph Webster, of the [?] Post-office, late of Bodmin, to Phil[?] [?], youngest dau of Mathew P[?], of [?] West Britain & Cornwall Advertiser, 5 Apr 1844 [assume this was Rev John]
Mary Elizabeth Soper (1844-?) m.Charles Le Grys (1836-?), a house decorator & painter, 3 May 1863 in St Stephens, Kensington. [m.Apr>Jun 1863 Kensington bmd dist] Mary b.20 Apr 1844 in South West, Lon, [St.Ann, Blackfriars], dau of George Soper & Elizabeth Knight : [m.Apr>Jun 1843 St George East, Lon bmd dist] source : & : [pure unchecked speculation, but a Mary E Soper 6 scholar at Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, Kent '51cen with governess
Henry Soper m.Eliza Roberts Jan>Mar 1844, St Martins, Lon (perhaps family below)
George Soper m.Mary Petty 11 Aug 1844, St Bride, Fleet St (m.Jul>Sep London West dist)
Henry Coles Soper, awarded £1 1s prize the Merchants' & Brokers Prize Fund, for the best design for parasol border, at Government School of Design, Spitalfields branch, 3rd AGM; in 'Standard' (pub.140) 11 Jul 1844, from newspapers.bl.uk : [a silk weaver (1830-1908) m.1866 his father Henry Coles Soper snr silk mfr, helped found the school 1841]
James Soper, 1 of abt 100 on committee [perhaps a liveryman] to support Alderman Brown for Chamberlain, at London Tavern; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 3 Sep 1844, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [assume James, City broker; see 1813]
William Soper (c1813-?) & Ann, paupers in records of Uxbridge Union's, Board of Guardian, aged 31, wife 33, & children, 9, 8, 4, 2 & 1. 'able-bodied, out of work & requires relief. Refused aid after questioned by the guardians, as to where he was last employed, by whom, his wages & if he had done any piece-work. - Poet, Caroline Sheridan Norton, highlighted poor law problems in a book written c1844. William's was one every-day example from her village. On Friday, he walked 18 miles to ask the local relieving officer at Hillingdon for help . He decided William was not starving, so must present himself at Wednesday's Guardians meeting (so possibly 5 days with no food). They also refused help, apart from their workhouse. A few weeks later, again unemployed, perhaps after finding casual labouring, he made the same applications (walking 36 miles), 'with the same heart-breaking refusals'. He accepted Uxbridge Workhouse, [Hillingdon, Lon workhouse site]. His family was separated there & he was employed bone cracking with a long iron pestle : [not vis '41cen]
William Lemon Soper m.Ann Dengenhart Read 30 Sep 1845, St.Matthew, Bethnal Green, Lon (igi) fathers; William Degenhart Read & William Soper; William Lemon Soper b.29 Jan 1809, City of Lon; bpt.9 Apr 1809 at St Stephan, Coleman St, (Moorgate), Lon (igi); Ann Digerhant Read b.26 Dec 1822, Hoxton, Msx source & bpt.16 Jan 1823 to William & Catherine Read, Shoreditch St Leonard, Hackney
Stephen Soper (c1823-?) age 21, 6 months for uttering counterfeit coin. 8 Dec, 4pm, he tried to buy 1½d potatoes at Middle Row, Knightsbridge with a 1 shilling coin. shopkeeper bit it & observed it was bad. Soper said his master gave it him. "I said, fetch your master & he can have it back. He said his master lived by the Admiral Keppel, ½ a mile away. He went off, I went after him". At 9:30pm 15 Dec New St, Brompton, Soper paid for 2 herrings (1½d) with a bad shilling. Shopkeeper followed him to a public house & an officer arrested him. He had 14 pence on him : 1 Jan 1844 : oldbaileyonline.org
Soper v Soper re estate of William Soper, late of Paradise St, Rotherhithe, Sy, gentleman (who died in Nov 1839) in persuant to a decree of Chancery Court, to come to William Wingfield esq, Charcery Lane chambers to make out his heirship, or in default thereof he will be exculuded in the benefit of the said decree; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.) 22 Apr 1845, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [William died 1839]
Soper defended in Cracknell v Soper this day at Court of Exchequer, Westminster; Middlesex common juries; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 6 Jun 1845, from newspapers.bl.uk : [no soper/Cracknell connection vis]
Henry Soper at meeting of silk manufacturers agreed a change-over date, after Silk Weaving Act required all adopt 36" uniform measure (London used 37" to the yard previously) [so weaver out-workers underpaid 3%?]; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 17 Sep 1845, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan [see 1826]
Ebenezer Soper, had handkerchief stolen from his person, value 2s; William Lawson indited; Ebenezer; I live in Cheapside. abt 7:30pm 14 Nov 1845, I was going along Goswell Rd, a communication was made to me & I found my handkerchief gone —this is it— my pocket was outside my coat & I think it likely I might have left the end of my handkerchief outside, which might have been a temptation—I cannot swear it did not drop it. I turned round, there was a scuffle & I saw the handkerchief fall from some one. Daniel Pamphlett said I saw the prosecutor & prisoner, I turned & the prisoner went into the road & dropped this handkerchief. Prisoner. This man took hold of me; a said I chucked it down by my feet; a lady said I did not take it, he said the lady my companion. Not Guilty, Central Criminal Court 15 Dec. www.oldbaileyonline : [perhaps nice Ebenezer did not want a harsh conviction?] : [cloth dealer '31 - biog]
Frederick Soaper or Fredrick, confectioner of 52 Lisson Grove, Marylebone, Mx. His will 29 Oct 1845 : nationalarchives available online, prob 11/2026 : [a post office 1826 : as job agency for a footman 1834 : insurance 1834] : [witness post fraud 1835] : [pastry cook, insolvent 1842] : [connection? an elderly Soper, housekeeper to a Southwark confectioner died 1875]
Mr Soper occupied & paid low rent of £50pa for 12 Elizabeth St, Pimlico, 4 bedrooms, dining room, domestic offices & garden. Ground rent £7. Unexpired lease of 77 for auction as investment; in 'The Standard' (pub.Lon) 10 Aug 1846, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [not vis '41cen]
?a George Soper m.Anne Crofts 4 Oct 1846 St.Leonards, Shoreditch, Lon (igi) : [m.Oct>Dec Shorditch bmd dist]
Henry Soper esq of Little Watham. With a friend & servant in his chaise by Sparrows Bank, High St, Chelmsford. An escaped carriage horse bolted knocking down it's driver 35, who later died. It came into violent contact with Soper's carriage & shattered it & the two travellers were thrown backwards to the road, escaping injury. Their spirited mare kicked furiously, broke loose & was halted at Springfield Warf, sustaining much injury after following the bolting horse; Oct 1846, from newspapers.bl.uk : [Henry Soper (c1802-1867) snr, silk weaver see biog]
George John Soper m.Mary Ann Waters Syrett Oct>Dec 1846, Bermondsey
John Soper witness. 3 men got 3m for assault. John Harold Levett in a fight & later died, after his cart cut-in on another, while following a 4m road race between 2 men finishing at Plastow. "I’m a fellowship porter. Prisoner Heywood is a fishmonger. Prisoner Branch is a ‘bobber’, carrying fish after it’s sold. I saw the condition Levett was in. He said, "Do you call this I fair play?", there was a thick gash & he was covered in blood. I went with him to a beer shop. He washed his face, he was nearly blind in one eye. I rode with him in the cart to Mr Baker, surgeon" 26 Oct 1846 oldbaileyonline.org
S Soper, transported for 7 years at New Court; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 3 Jan 1846, from newspapers.bl.uk : [4 weeks before the report below]
Charles Soper I’m clerk to Mr Knapp, a barrister, in Brick Court. I saw the prisoner on the staircase 3 Sept, as if putting a letter into Mr Pollock's box. I suspected something & looked out of our chamber window & saw him go out with a bundle. I crossed to a window which looks into another court & he went across. Hearing of a robbery next morning & said I could identify the person from a hundred. I looked for him at several places & on Tue following, saw at Inner Temple Ln & followed him up a staircase to another set of chambers. I secured him & gave him to a policeman. The key on him opened Mr Pollock's door when I tried. James McDonald 22; 6 months for stealing 7 waistcoats & a coat, (pawned at 6 brokers). 21 Sept 1846 www.oldbaileyonline
George Soper m.Maria Hale Apr>Jun 1847, Lambeth, Lon (bmd)
William Soper of Elizabeth St, m.Mary Ann Seymour of West Shut 25 Jul 1847, at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster; fathers Edward cabinet maker & Thomas Seymour carpenter scan [m.Jul>Sep] : William b.c1821 Chelsea : [Edward not obvious '41/51cen; but 2 sisters early 20s dau's of Edward cabinet mkr '41cen]
Mr Soper manufacturer silk of the balloon & wrote to Mr Green regretting he'd be at his country house & unable to witness the maiden assent of 'the Victoria'. Curiously, it passed over his Little Waltham farm, landing 1½ miles furthur on. It few 40m from London soon after 7pm, landing 8pm. Soper entertained the 4 crew at home until they caught the Cheltenham mail train; in 'Standard' (pub.Lon) 27 May 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk; scan
Martha Soper, polled 2,742 & came 17th of 66 candidates of which 35 children elected into the asylum; £101 donations inc £20 guineas from Duchess of Gloucester; from General meeting of Deaf & Dumb Asylum, 12 Jul secretary at Old Kent Rd; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 14 Jul 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [siblings? Martha elected 1847 & James 1849] : [Deaf & Dumb Asylum, 68b Old Kent Rd, St Saviour, Southwark opened 1809, (photo right 1813) pupils wholly clothed & maintaned by charity; 6 monthly elections 'taught to speak, read, write & various mechanic arts [ie shoe making], to enable them to obtain subsistence when discharged'; children eligable from 8½ to 11½;, so assume James & Martha b.c1840 & b.c1838 [births not vis igi]]
H Soper, at meeting of silk manufacturers, supporting 36" as the standard when selling silk; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.) 7 Aug 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [see Henry Soper 1826]
Messrs Walker & Soper, 1 Union Sq, Horsemonger Ln. Fire broke out 5pm Tue, 29 Jun in their carpenter workshops (insured for £2,000 with Phoenix Fire Office). 1st noticed on lower floor. The forman, only person there, subdued it with buckets, but in a few minutes fire was from top to bottom. Building gutted & valuable timber stock in back yard partly consumed. 11 workmen lost their tools. A spark from stove warming glue probable cause. 2 fire engines attended until 6:30; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 30 Jun 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk : ['41cen carpenters at Bethnal Gn; Blenheim St, Chelsea & Henry St, St Pancras] : [a Samuel Soper at Henry St '51cen]
Jane Soper, lady's maid to Mrs Richard, both arriving from Woodgate to London Bridge station, 2 porters (1 since had left without trace) transfered luggage to a Hackney Coach, while Richard with a bad spine was helped by her footman & maid, On arriving at 2 Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park a dressing case was missing. Verdict £150 damages against the railway : from The Times,17 Feb 1848 92/746n
Maskil le-Sopher, 'The principles & processes of classical philology applied to the analysis of the Hebrew language'; pub.Lon 1848, from British Library [no obvious links]
Arthur Soper were placed at the bar charged with being riotous & disorderly. Waters flung a stone & a mob collected & kicked the arresting PC insensible; 'Morning Chronicle' ' (pub.Lon) 12 Apr 1848 : [??'51cen Arthur 53 & son Arthur 19 both tin plate workers, St Pancras: Arthur m.Sarah bef.1821]
George Isabell Soper of 46 Curzon St, Mayfair, secretary of Central Metropolitan Dispensary at 14 Leicester Place, Leicester Sq, founded last Nov for relief of the poor. Subscriptions for planned enlargement; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 17 Mar 1848, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [(1796-1875) : m.1835 Stoke Damerel, Dev]
William Soper esq (c1761-1848) died age 87, 18 June 1848, at his residence 6 Park Terrace, Victoria Park : from The Times 20 June : 32/211p
Mrs Soper Hyde Park : a Mary ?, died, Worlington, Sussex, 15 Aug 1848, relict of Capt Samuel Pridgeon of North Runcton & mother of Mrs Soper of Eastbourn Terrace, Hyde Park [not'41] : from p444, The Gentleman's Magazine Jul>Dec from google book
Thomas Soper : Hardy & Thomas Soper — I have seen a watch which is said to have belonged to Hardy, ... This watch (so the story goes) was given to Hardy by Thomas Soper, … : from Notes and Queries 1849 GoogleBooks
Miss Soper of 12 Elizabeth St, Eaton Sq in advert requesting loan from wealthy people for 'A G' a young widow with 2 young children, needing a £100 loan to pay rent & maintenance; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 3 Jul 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [a Mr Soper at address 1846 above (on £50pa lease)] : [in 1860 William Ridley Knaggs left 12 Elizabeth Sq to son (but not living there)]
James Soper, polled 2,317 & came 24th of 72 candidates of which 30 children elected into the asylum when poll closed 3pm; from General meeting of Deaf & Dumb Asylum, 9 Jul; Wm Nottidge treasurer & signed Charles Nottidge, secretary, Old Kent Rd; in 'Standard' (pub.Lon) 11 Jul 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [siblings? Martha elected 1847 & James 1849]
John Soper (?-1849) engineer of 26 Newland St, Pimlico. Will 7 Dec 1849 ref: Available online, nationalarchives.gov.uk prob 11/2105 [wife & 6 kids, at Upper Ebury St '41cen]
James Soper esq 1 of abt 100 on committee for the election of Mr Bridgemaster for the City of London; in 'The Era' (pub.Lon) 25 Feb 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : [assume James, City broker; see 1813]
Mary Ann Soper m.Jan>Mar 1849 at St Georges, Hanover Square, vol 1 (London) 23 marriage register : source
Henry Coles Soper, £4 prize from The Brokers Fund for best design for a figured garment, highest of many prizes given; Sptalfield School of Design; in newspaper 31 Jul 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : [a silk weaver (1830-1908) m.1866 his father Henry Soper snr silk mfr, helped found the school 1841]
Samuel Soper m.Mary Ann Murray Oct>Dec 1849, Shoreditch, Lon (bmd) : a Samuel bpt.7 Aug 1825 Bishopsgate, St Botolph, Lon :
Henry Soper Blackman (1827-1903) b.Lambeth, London, bapt.23 Sept 1827 Lambeth; m.Mary Mill 1850 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Soper v Soper, one of many unapposed petitions at vice Chancellor's Court Lincolns Inn, (Courts of Cancery); in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 29 Jul 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk
Henry Soper 1 of 19 in meeting of Tower Hamlets gentlemen for the Great Exhibition 1851, meeting at Tax Commission, Spital Sq, 29 Mar 1850
Henry Soper 1 of 3 delegate representing Tower Hamlets, amongst dozens of delegates attending a Royal Commission at New Palace, Westminster, after they had an
interview with Prince Albert : from The Times & 'Morning Post' 28 Jun 1850 97/746n : [assume the silk mfr, see 1836, he exibited at Albert's Great Exhibition]
Thomas Soper b.1826, Plympton St Mary, Dev, mason, m.Susanna Stanbury (1823-) Aug>Sept 1850 St George Hanover Sq; 5 children b.Westminster (in '61-'01cen) : Thomas b.1853, George b.1857, Henry Felice b.1859 mason, [Thomas m.Susanna Stanbury 1850ts : biog], Kate F b.1862, Letitia b.1867 : GeneaNet.org : from researcher Joy Lewis :
John Soper & wife Sarah Soper of Poplar, New Town 1850 Trinity House petition : Trinity House Petitions from BritishOrigins.com : [perhaps a claim for relief?]
John Soper of the British Queen, 8 William St, Meadow Row, New Kent Rd, Sy, licensed retailer of beer & carpenter, bricklayer & builder, carrying on business as J Soper & Sons & having a shed in William St. Interim order for debtor protection & to appear at Lincoln's Inn 12 Nov 1850 at Lincolns Inn : (London Gazette 29 Oct) : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819]
Soper v Sharman at Westminster County Court, St Martins Lane 1 of 23 cases; 'plaints above £5 & under £20' 4 Apr; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 1 Apr 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk
Elizabeth Soper discharged dead 8 Feb 1851, Christ Church Workhouse, Southwark; spent 28w, 3d at the house; listed as '1 boy under 10 & 1 adult woman', admitted 3 Feb (by Caslake, as were others); London Workhouse Registers scan : [2 discharged dead that day; death not register in London bmd registers]
1851 Census; all Sopers in the census are below
Agnes Soper 40 head at 24 Isabella St, (St Thomas), Lambeth, Sy '51cen; son George Soper 14 both chair caners; James Soper 6 son scholar; all b.Surrey scan : [Agnes & James not vis '61cen] : [??a George Robert m.Elizabeth Longman Cogan 1860]
Amelia Soper 20unm neice at Queen St, St James, Clerkenwell, St James, M.sx '51cen, b.Padworth, Berks; with Richard George 36 brewers servant b.Beds; Ann George 43 b.Padworth, Berks; Sarah 4 & Wm 2 both b.Clerkenwell, St James; scan : [?an Amelia Soper (c1830-1855) d.Oct>Dec 1855, Bradfield, Berks, age 25]
Ann Soper 40 widow house serv at Norwood Green, Norwood, Uxbridge, M.sx '51cen, b.Salisbury, Wiltshire scan : [not vis '61cen]
Anne Soper 37 head at New (or Old) Bond St, M.sx '51cen; & sisters Jane Soper 31; Sarah Soper 29 all dress makers b.Exeter, Dev; scan : ['41cen Ann & Jane milliners]
Ann Soper 30unm milliner at Gardiner St, '51cen, b.London; lodger with John Hourne? 47 master builder emp 4
scan : [not vis '41cen, '61cen]
Anna Soper 27unm [no job given] at 6 Blue St, St James, Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Aldermaston, Berkshire scan : [not vis '61cen]
Ann Soper 20unm house serv at 6 Little Nelson St, St Philips, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, M.sx '51cen, b.Spittlesfields, M.sx with Thomas Cooling 35 biscuit maker, b.Hammersmith, wife Emma 34, dress maker, Harrietta 7, Emma 5 both scholars, Rosa 3 b,. Hoxton & Annie 1 b.Bethnal Gn scan : ['41cen no Ann vis in BG; perhaps parents Thomas (silkweaver) & Susannah Buckmaster who m.1834]
Arthur Soper 53 tin plate worker at 2 Thornly Place, St Pancras, M.sx '51cen, b.Exeter, Dev; Sarah Soper 53 b.Exeter, Dev; Arthur Soper 19; Henry Soper 17 both tin plate workers both b.Clerkenwell, M.sx; with niece Sarah Thomas 2 b.Clerkenwell; scan : [Arthur m.Sarah bef.1821]
Bartma Soper 31 dressmaker at 2 Athur St, St Luke, Chelsea, M.sx '51cen, b.Uckfield, Sussex; Eliza Soper 7 b.Chelsea, M.sx scan
Catherine Soper (c1799-?) 52 widowed house servant at 2 Ludgate Hill, St Brides, M.sx '51cen, b.Deny, Ireland; with pastry cook 24, porter 23, apprentice 16 & shop women 35 & 15 scan : [not vis '61cen]
Charles Soper 43 barrister's clerk at 58 Walnut Tree Walk, St Mary, Lambeth, Sy '51cen; b.St Martins in the Fields; Eliza 40 b.Reading, Berks; 17 in address (2 other households at address; William Benjamine Trotman 44 law writer b.St Pancras, wife & 3 kids; 3rd head a tailor 41 wife & 6 kids) scan : [Charles m.Anne Coveney (ne Adams) 1865]
Charles Sopher 23 lodger, at Harp Alley (St Bride), West London '51cen, b.St Brides, M.sx scan : [not vis '61cen]
Claris Soper 45 laundress at 21 Wilstead St, St Pancras, M.sx '51cen, b.St Pancras, M.sx; Emma Soper 26 laundress; Charles Soper 20 printers prfs man; Frederick Soper 12 scholar all b.St Pancras, M.sx scan scan2 : [George & Clarisse in '41cen]
Dinah Soper 70 visitor - at 32 Bloomsbury St, St George, Bloomsbury, M.sx '51cen, b.Exeter, Dev; visiting Ann Hean 53unm lodging house [keeper?] b.Exeter scan
Dinah Soper 57 ? serv/? law? monthly nurse at 53 Bakers St, St Luke, Finsbury, M.sx '51cen, b.Stoke?, Kent with Charles Blory? 25 gold jeweller b.Leicester, wife Sarah 27 b.Hassocks?, Kt & Charles 9 days b.St Luke scan
Ebenezer Soper 59 head calico printer at 4 Gibson Sq, Islington, M.sx '51cen, b.St Austel?, Cornwall; Lavina Soper 43 b.Spitalfields, M.sx; Geroge Albert Soper 10 scholar; Hy Elenze Soper 8 scholar; E M Soper 4; M F Soper 1 all b.Islington, Middlesex scan : [Ebenezer, (1798-1861) m.Lavinia Vaux, 1840]
Edward Sopher 31 carpenter at 7 Edge Terrace (St Johns), Kensington, M.sx '51cen, b.Paddington, M.sx; Ann Sopher 30 dress maker b.Terlockton?, Bucks scan
Elizabeth Soper 70 head widowed almswoman at 21 Wittington College, St Marys, Islington, M.sx '51cen, b.Kenton, Dev scan : [the census page has households of almswomen] : [not vis '61cen]
Eliz Soper 44unm serv cook at 8 & 9 Taunton Place, St Marylebone, M.sx '51cen, b.Stevenage, Herts scan
Elizabeth Soper 15 serv nursemaid at 29 Sandy Row, Christ Church, Tower Hamlets, M.sx '51cen, b.M.sx scan & scan
Elizel Sopher 18 visitor tin plate worker at 14 Redcliff Green (St Lukes), Finsbury, M.sx '51cen, b.Frome?, Somerset; with John Dugger 43 porter b.Bath S.set; wife 48 b.Devizes & 4 children b.St Lukes [another family in property] scan : [no Sophers '41/'61cen]
Emma Soper 18 serv house servant at Lear? St, Strand, Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.St Pauls Coo, M.sx; with B Robenson 57 clerk b.Darlington, Durham; W H Pink? tin plate works emp 2; joint proprietors; Charles Mackay 15 apprentice both b.Hampstead & lodger Mary Currer 40unm charwoman b.Ireland : scan : [??8 with parents Georg/harriiott '41cen]
Fanny Soper 37 serv cook at Kings Arms, Gt College St, (St John Evangelist), Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Odiam, Hants; serv with Henry J L Sly 40 licenced victualler, Maldon, Ex; Mary A 37 b.Brighton, Sx; visitor Esther Claydon 40unm annuitant b.Aytripp, Ex : [pub next to nr27] scan : [not vis '41cen or '61cen; a Fanny m.Jul>Sep 1859, Kensington, Lon (to either John Axbey or Daniel Cole)]
George Soper 63 head an ostler at East St, Farnham, Surrey '51cen, b.Church, Surrey; Elizabeth Soper 60 b.Farnham, Surrey scan
George Soper 59 head carpenter at 1 Peacock Place, St Judes, Bethnal Green, M.sx '51cen; dau Matilda Soper 18 needle woman; Robert B Soper 14 errand boy all b.St Saviors, Surrey scan : [see '41cen]
George S Soper 54 secretary of mines, mining agent at 16 Pelham Place, Holy Trinity, Kensington, M.sx '51cen, b.St Austell, Cornwall; Anna M 49 b.Rochester, Kent; George E 9 scholar b.Plymouth, Dev scan : [George m.Maria Worsley at Stoke Damerel 1835]
George Soper 50 head labourer at 3 Radnor St, (St Luke), Finsbury, M.sx '51cen, b.St Brides, M.sx; Mary Soper 37 b.Lambeth, Surrey; Mary A Soper 5; Emma L Soper 3 scholar; Henry J Soper 1 all b.St Lukes, M.sx (5 others at address); scan
George Soper 46 head labourer at 28 Henry St East, (St Stephens), Marylebone, M.sx '51cen; Mary Soper 39 ironer both b.Westminster; Mary A Soper 1 b.Marylebone; with William Parsons 19unm son-in-law porter; b.Westminster & daus-in-law Sarah 13 & Eliza 11 both scholars b.Marylebone scan : [George m.Harriett Gill 1826 & Mary Parsons Oct>Dec 1848]
George Soper 42 head plasterer at 35, Paddington, M.sx '51cen, b.Bovey Tracy, Dev; Mirriam Soper 42 b.Bistrop Sturgenton?, Dev; John Soper 14 errand boy; James Soper 8 scholar both b.Newton Abbott, Dev; Samuel Soper 3 scholar; Emma Soper 1 both b.Paddington, M.sx scan & scan2 : [see m.bef.1832]
George Soper 37 draper at 30 Great Guildford St, St Saviour, Southwark, Sy, '51cen, b.Bovey, Dev; Elizabeth Soper 29 b.Limehouse, M.sx; Hannah Soper 5; George Soper 3 both b.Blackfriars; William Soper 1 b.St Saviour & cousin Anna Soper 40unm servant b.Bovey scan : [none vis '61cen, '71cen] : [?a George m.Elizabeth Knight Apr>Jun 1843, St George, East, Lon]
George Soper 29 head clerk at 12 North Square, Stepney, M.sx '51cen, b.Dalston, M.sx; Sarah Soper 34 clerks wife b.Ayott?, Hertfordshire; George Soper 9 b.Aldgate, M.sx; Elizabeth Soper 7 b.Mile End, M.sx scan : [George m.Sarah Waby 1842]
George Sopper 28 gardener at 11 Bedford Road, Lambeth, Sy '51cen, b.Essex; Ann Sopper 30 b.Manchester; (8 in 3 households there) scan : [not vis '41/'61cen]
George J Soper 27 builder employing 20 men at 22 Albert Terrace (St George), Southwark, Sy '51cen, b.Newington, Sy; Mary A W Soper 26 b.Norwich, Norfolk; with Mary Syrett wife's widowed mother 68 annuitant b.Carson, Norfolk & servant mary Ann Davis 17unm b.Devon & John Walker 27unm 'builder & partner of Soper' b.Stoke, Dev scan : [George John m.Mary Ann Waters Syrett 1846, Bermondsey]
George Soaper 25 engineer at 9 Nelson Rd, (St Thomas), Bethnal Green, M.sx '51cen, b.Walworth, Surrey; Mary Soaper 23 b.Bromley, Kent; Maroe Soaper 2 b.Walworth, Surrey; Elizabeth Soaper 5m b.Bethnal Green; & visitor John Bailey 16 blind cord maker b.Shoreditch; (7 others at address) scan : [George Soper m.Maria Hale 1847, Lambeth]
George Soper 19 appr gold beaters apprentice at 53 Richmond St, (St Johns), Marylebone, M.sx '51cen, b.Chelsea, M.sx; with Richard Fogg 36 gold beater (emp 3) b.Marylebone, wife 33; Thomas Armstrong 18unm b.Scotland scan [?assume m.1851]
Giles Ching Soper 22 head (married) gas fitter at 19 Hammon Street, (All Saints), Islington, M.sx '51cen, b.Basingstoke, Hampshire; also in property Henry Mardon 31 smith b.Rochester, Kt; Mary Ann 26 b.Islington & son 1; & Charles Lee Smith, smith b.St Savior, Lon, Kt & Caroline 30 b.Sheerness; scan : [biog]
Harriet Soper 23unm needle woman at 1 Edward St, (All Saints), Islington, M.sx '51cen, b.St Martins Place, M.sx; lodging with Harriett Rofs 57 widow, lace mender b.Clerkenwell & children 10-24 all b.St James; scan : [George, umberella maker m.Harriett Gill 1826]
Henry Thomas Soper 26 head compositor & printer at 27 Russell Court, St Martins in the Field, Westminster '51cen, b.St Pancras; Elizabeth Soper 24; Elizabeth Ann Soper 7 both b.Staines, M.sx scan; 6 households at address
Henry W Soper 19unm serv errand boy at 5 Marlboro Rd, School, (all Saints), Marylebone, M.sx '51cen, b.not known; with Elizabeth Courie 57 widowed head, proprietor of boarding school for young gentlemen; children 10-20, sister 26, niece 15; 3 house serv, cook & 11 pupils 8-16 scan scan: [assume Henry White Soper m.Ellen McAuliffe 1862]
Hester Soper 49 sister independent at 1b York Place, Lambeth, Sy '51cen; Maria Soper 23; Mary Emma Soper 21; William Soper 15 all at home all b.Bermondsey, Sy; with brother William George Watts 51 solicitor b.Bermondsey, Sy & house servants Maryann Wright 29unm b.Durham & Jane Batsman 16 b.Leeds, Yorks; scan : [Capt Benjamine Soper m.Hester Watts, 1824]
James Soper 51 black smith at 4 Beamont Terrace, Mile End Old Town, Tower Hamlets, M.sx '51cen, b.-; Susan Soper 54 b.Borough, Sy scan (2nd couple there George Isbell 23 labourer & wife)
James Soper 9 patient, job "at home" (ie not scholar) at St Thomas the Apotle, Southwark, Sy '51cen, b.Lee, Kent; page 23 has 20 male patients 6-67 scan : [not vis bmd or '61/'71cen]
Jane C Soper 63 widow, proprietor of houses at 4 Blossom St, Liberty of Norton Folgate, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex '51cen, b.Gridelton, Wiltshire scan; Richard Soper 31unm patent line manufacturer; Angelina S Soper 21 milliner all b.Middlesex : [John Stokes Soper m.Jane Colinborn Lesiter 1816]
Jane Soper 40 servants valet, a married pauper at St Saviors workhouse, Christ Church, Southwark, Surrey '51cen, b.Devenport, Devon; Hannah Soper 9; Hepbzibah Soper 6; George Soper 4 all b.Hampstead, M.sx; all paupers scan : [from list perhaps also looking after with Isaac Crofts 5 months old b.don't know; on page 15 of 20 names each]
Jane Soper 21 laundry maid at 2 St James Sq, (St James), Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Padworth, Berks; with household of Earl of Falmouth b.Berks (not there); butler 49, footman 23, underbutler 28, porter 45, coachmen 50 & 26, groom 24, housekeeper 76, cook 37, housemaids 30 & 25; kitchen maid 20; laundry maids 28 & 21; scan scan 2
John Sloper at Atkin's Rd, Clapham, Surrey, 1851 : from Post Office Directory
John Soper 73 retired from business, independent, at 12 Carlton Villas, Camden Rd, Islington, M.sex; b.Southwark, Sy; Charlotte Soper 62 & wife & her unm sisters, Jane & Anne Thomson 68 & 64 all b.Essex & servant Elizabeth Hayward 40unm b.Bethnal Green ; scan
: [John (1778-1851) d.6 May 1851; a businessman? see 1811]
John Downs Soper 70 a hill customs superior? at 17 Marlboro Place, Old Kent Road, Camberwell, Surrey '51cen; Elizabeth Soper 74 both b.St Saviour, Surrey; also cousin Elizabeth Ren? 31unm b.Newington; & servants Caroline Saven 21unm Petworth, Sx & Jane Shipman 21 b.St George
scan : [see marriage 1811]
John Soper 63 printer at 18 Gloster St (St Mary), Lambeth, Surrey '51cen; John Fred Soper 27 engine driver both b.West[minster?], M.sx; Henry Charles Soper 23 engineer b.Lambeth; lodging with 2nd household of John Callwill 47 general small dealer, wife 54 & niece Ann Blythe 11; scan : ['41cen all 3, still with Mr & Mrs Cardwell]
John Soper 60 head builder & beerseller at 12 Meadow Row, (St Mary), Newington, Surrey '51cen; Elizabeth Soper 53; John K Soper 21 bricklayer all b.Lambeth?, Surrey; Maryann Soper 16; Alfred T Soper 15 & Thomas W Soper 11 scholar all b.Surrey scan : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819]
John Soaper 46 store keeper at 1 Brunswick St, Poplar, M.sx '51cen, b.Portsea, Hampshire [on his own] : scan [not obvious '41/'61cens]
John Soper 37 stone sawyer at 20 Graham St, M.sx '51cen, b.Uxfield, Sx; lodger with Margaret Evans 45 widow, laundress b.Liverpool; 6 children 4-16; & orther stob=ne sawyer lodgers; Edward Wood 29 & Phillip Richard 27 b.Dev; scan & scan2 : ['61/'71cen not vis]
John Soper 35 curate of Clapham at 13 Union Grove, Clapham, Sy 1851 census; b.Edmonton, M.sx & Sarah 36 Tottenham, M.sx; with house servant Eliza Gates 20unm b.Drayton, Cambs; scan : [John's biog]
John Soper 34unm porter at 8 Love Ln, St Mary at Hill, M.sx '51cen, b.Bovey Tracy, Dev scan; [3 households & 5 people in property] : ['61/'71cen not vis]
John Soaper 22 head glass polishers clerk at 37 Woolmore Street, Poplar, M.sx '51cen, b.Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Caroline Soaper 23 b.London; John Hy Soaper 10m b.London scan : [John m.Caroline bef.1850]
Joshua Sopers 23 upholsterer at 10 Reeves Rents, (St Botolph), Bishopsgate, M.sx '51cen; Lucy Sopers 18 both b.Bishopsgate, M.sx; with William Burnley 58 upholsterer b.Bishopsgate; wife Ann 46 b.M.sx; George 16, William 14; Mary A 12, all b.Bishopsgate; [9 others at address] scan : [Joshua m.1853, Shoreditch]
Maria Soper 31 nurse at 27 Squiries St, (St Mathews), Bethnal Green, M.sx '51cen, b.Sheerness, Kent; with Thomas Berker 40 glass cutter b.Spitalfields, wife Thesesa b.Kent 34, Harriet 11 & baby girl 10 days both b.BG; scan : [not vis '41/'61cen]
Martha Soper 12 pupil (deaf & dumb) at St George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey '51cen & James A Soper 10 pupil (deaf & dumb) both b.Devonport, Devon; all 20 children on page 14 deaf & dumb 9-15 mixed sex; abt 320 pupils; scan : [parents William & Martha see '41cen]
Mary Soper 64 serv house servant at Ivy Cottage (St Stephens), Hammersmith, M.sx '51cen, b.Kingsclere, Hampshire; with John L Hornkin 55 chandler b.Austria (British); wife Hannah 45 b.Exeter; scan
Mary Ann Soaper 61 lodger widowed shoe binder at 14 Hornsey St, Newington, Sy '51cen, b.Even St, Bath, Somerset scan : [not vis '61cen] : ['41cen Mary Soaper 50-4 Hope St, Lambeth, St Mary Newington; James 18 weaver; George 13 (only George b.Surrey) scan]
Mary Sofer 39 head dress maker at 11 Lion St?, Newington, Surrey '51cen, b.Surrey scan (perhaps Sope? - 10 in 3 households there) : [not obvious '41/'61cen]
Mary A Soper 35 dressmaker at 12 Harpus St, St George the Martyr, Finsbury, M.sx '51cen, b.Winchester, Hampshire scan; Amelia Soper 31 dressmaker b.Soho, St Ann, M.sx : [see sister mary Ann b.1814]
Mary Soper 25 servant cook at Lea, Hambledon, Sy '51cen, b.Wolverton, Hants; with Mary Leech 45 land proprietor b.Thursley, widowed brother 31, visitors 53 landholder & 25, ladys maid 22 & 22, housemaid 36 & annuitant servant 85; scan : [parents William m.Mary Ann Rolfe 1858 Wolverton]
Mary E Soper (1845-?) , aged 6, b.London, one of 3 scholars living with governesses Maria & Mary Ann Thompson & servant, at Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, Kent: Page 11, Nr 132: '51cen : [not vis '61cen; assume the Mary Elizabeth b.1844 m.1863 Kensington] source : source
Mary Ann Soper 3 visitor at 31 Medway St, (St Mathews), Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Chelsea, M.sx; Harriett Burnes 47 widow b.Suffolk; dau 22 dressmaker b.Putney; John 14 errand boy & visitors John Hatton 20unm; Joseph Robingson 36 coachman all b.Westminster, wife Sarah 37 b.Odiham, Hants (12 at address); scan : [?Mary Ann Soper b.Jul>Sep 1848, London East] : [not vis '61cen]
Mary Ann Soper 1½ grandau at 3 Kings Place, (St James), Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Holborn, M.sx; with Thomas Seynwn 49 carpenter emp 2 b.Chelsea; Elizabeth 49 b.Bathwerl?, Derbyshire; 6 children 6-12 all b.Chelsea scan : [Mary Ann b.Jul>Sep 1849, Marylebone, Lon]
Matilda Soper 51 head, widowed washer woman at 33 William St, Marylebone, M.sx '51cen, b.Canterbury, Kent; also at property John Mithrom 27 carpenter b.Oxford & wife Eliza 25 b.Ex; scan : [not vis '41/'61cen; d.not vis bmd]
Moses Soper 48 unm serv butler at 146 Picadilly (St Georges), Hammersmith, M.sx '51cen, b.Berks; in team of 14 servants [all 'unm'] with Edward Antrobus 58 baronet & banker b.Lon, 4 children 15-31; governess 32, butler 48 & 11 house servants 22-48 scan; [Moses m.Harriet Truckle 1854 at Amesbury, Wilts]
Richard Coltman Soper 29 "atp? lodger", a practical engineer at 5 Angel Court, Strand, M.sx '51cen, b., Berkshire; 2 other lodgers all 3 separate households; John Phillips 20unm washerwoman b.St Anne, Westminster & Robert Rand 27unm currier b.Deare Yorks; (14 people at address in 5 households) : scan : [RC Soper m.Elizabeth Arnsby 1854]
Richard Soper 25 butcher at 18 Queens St (St Lukes), Chelsea, M.sx '51cen, b.Uckfield, Sx; Harriet Soper 32 ironer b.Fulham?, M.sx; with son Charles Dennis 8 scholar b.Fulham? [assume over 'Rose & Crown'] scan scan2: [m. not vis bmd; Charles b.not vis as Soper; (not the Richard gunmaker m.Harriett Elliott 1852, Reading)]
Richard Soaper 17 serv porter at 7 & 8 Berkely Sq (St George), Hanover Sq, M.sx '51cen, b.Padworth, Berks; with Charles Bishop 65 carpenter, wife 39 & dau 20 & 15, 3 house serv; 4 shopwoman; 3 clerks, 5 cooks, 2 kitchen maids, house serv, under butler, 3 porters scan : [Richard m.Elizabeth (Butler?) Apr>Jun 1862]
Robert Soper 42 sacker? of Her Majestys Customs at 17 Paterson St, (St Thomas), Stepney, M.sx '51cen, b.Dartmouth, Dev; Grace Soper 77 b.Stoke Pleinmat?, Dev scan : [d.1873]
Samuel Soper 45 married head attendant on lunatic at 9 Henry St, St Pancras (Regents Park Dist), M.sx '51cen, b.Manchester, [Lancs]; 55 people at address (no lunatic) scan : [a keeper '41cen]
Samuel Soper 42 brass finisher at 3 Roxton Place, St Leonard, Shoreditch, M.sx '51cen, b.Exeter, Dev; Charlotte Soper 62 independent b.Spring Frits?, Essex; George Soper 13; William Soper 11; Thomas Soper 9; Charlotte Soper 6; James Soper 5; Jane Soper 3 all scholar b.Shoreditch scan : [Samuel & Charlotte m.1835]
Samuel Soper 25 cloth sorter at 15 George Gardens, St John, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, M.sx '51cen, b.City, London; Mary Ann Soper 22 bonnet maker; Walter Soper 11m both b.Mile End, London; also father-in-law James Cook 33 painter & glazier b.Spitalfields, Mx; Elizabeth 31 b.Hackney, Msx & James 11 scholar b.Spitalfields scan : [Samuel m.Mary Ann Murray Oct>Dec 1849]
Sarah Sopher 48 widow at 15 Elitherp? St, Poplar, M.sx '51cen, b.Kent with William Bernard? 28 stone knaper? b/Kent, wife Margaret? 24 , dau 2 & 2 lodgers scan [no Margaret Soper m.vis bmd]
Sarah Soper 44 married domestic at Gillaces Place, St Peter, Hammersmith, M.sx '51cen, b.Hammersmith, M.sx; Charles Soper 20 plaster b.M.sx; Francis Soper 19 domestic b.Herts; Alfred Soper 11 errand boy; Frederick Soper 5 scholar; Helen Soper 3 all b.M.sx scan : [John m.Sarah bef.1831?]
Stephen Sopher 47 tooth & nail brushmaker, journeyman at 41 Baldwins Gardens (St Andrews), Holborn, Middlesex '51cen; Sarah Sopher 43 tooth & nail brushmakers assistant; Richard Sopher 16 fur shin? draper, journeyman; James Sopher 11; Eliza Sopher 6 both scholar; Ruth Sopher 4 all b.M.sx scan : [not vis '41cen or '61cen]
Susan Soper 27 servant, cook at Tanners End, M.sx '51cen, b.Plymouth, Dev; also servant Emma Day 21 housemaid b.Buttersdale?, Suffolk scan
Susan Soper 26 wife at 3 Foundry (St Peter), Hammersmith '51cen, b.Loan?, Cambridgeshire; William Soper 1m son at M.sx, both b.Hammersmith, M.sx; scan : [son not vis if b.1m] : [John & Susan m.bef.1851]
Susan Soper 15 at 3 St Martins Place, St Martin in the Fields, M.sx '51cen, b.St M.in the F; servant with James J Richards 34 guide at St Pauls, wife Mary 33 & Jane 4m; (sharing property with a solicitor 21 & his clerk 16); scan : [?assume Susanah dau of George m.Harriett Gill 1826]
Sybilla Soper 36unm neice at 9 St Albans Terrace (St Mary), Lambeth, Sy '51cen, b.Whitechapel, M.sx, niece with Ann Charriere 63 widowed annuitant b.Greenwich, Kt; 1st householder Darby Bayley 64 law writer b.Mitcham, Sy; wife Sarah Jane 63 b.Thrapston?, Ex children 6m to 36? & gen serv 20 scan scan : [parents James & Elizabeth m.bef 1813; what was her relationship to aunt?]
Thomas Soper 61 tailor at Little Pulteny?, Westminster, St James, M.sx '51cen, b.Winchester, Hampshire; Ann Soper 61 b.Bristol; (listed below a 2nd head; William Kent 39 bootmaker; Mary Ann 37 both b.Jacland, Swunock? & 4 kids 13-4m); scan : ['41 & '61cen neither vis]
Thomas Soper 42 at 22 Grey Eagle St, Christ Church, Tower Hamlets, b.Bethnal Green; Susanah Soper 45 b.Spitalsfields both cane spreFaders; Elizabeth Soper 16; Mary Soper 14 both silk weaver; Sarah Soper 12; Eliza Soper 10; Leweyen Soper 5 all scholars & Emma Soper 1 all b.B Gn also lodger Howe? Buckmaster 20, labourer b.B Gn; 2nd family of 6 in property scan : [Thomas m.Susannah Buckmaster 1834]
Thomas J Soper 34 head artist at 1 Vapult Terrace?, Holland Rd, Lambeth, Surrey '51cen; b.Edmonton; Elizabeth Soper 32 b.Bermondsey; with general servant Sarah Chappell 20 b.Deptford scan : [link? a Thomas James Soper m.in St.Bride, Fleet St, 1843] : A page of his paintings & biogbiog page Thomas Soper 30 painter at Middle Row, Harrow, London '51cen, b.Harrow; George Soper 1 b.Harrow scan : [b & m not vis bmd]
Thomas Soper 26 head mason at 1 Victoria Place (St Anns), Wansworth, Sy '51cen; Susanna 27; brother Robert 21 mason all b.Plympton, St Mary, Dev scan : [Thomas m.Susanna Stanbury 1850, St George Hanover Sq, Lon; see Wilts notes]
Thomas Soper 23 unm head, labourer at 3 Chapel Place, (Holy Trinity), Kensington, M.sx '51cen, b.Greenwich, Kent; [9 in 3 households there] scan; [no Kent born Thomas vis '41cen or '61cen]
Thomas Soper 22 lodger labourer at 8 Evangelist Ct, (St Ann), Blackfriars, M.sx '51cen, b.British Subject, [others on page given birth counties; 9 in 4 households at address] scan
William Soper 73 head brass finisher at 16 Coleman Street, St Luke, Finsbury, Middlesex '51cen, b.Exeter, Dev; Susannah Soper 66 wife at St Luke, Finsbury, Middlesex '51cen, b.Dorchester, Dorset; Susannah Soper 23unm, 'c[eese] & butter maker' b.St Lukes, Middlesex scan : [Samuel & Charlotte m.1835]
William Soper 69 inmate fishmonger at St Mary, Battersea, Surrey '51cen, b.Wandsworth, Sy; page 17 in an institution; mixed sex inmates 19-90 scan : [not vis '41cen; a William fishmonger of Church Ln, bpt. children at Kensington 1813/4]
William Soper 69 retired dissenting minister at 3 Oregon Terrace, St Giles, Camberwell, Lambeth, Middlesex '51cen, b.Exeter, Devon; Mary Soper 49 b.Guildford, Surrey; William E Soper 7 b.Harwich, Essex; also unm servants Sarah Berry 22 b.Guildford, Sy & Esther Searle 19 b.Wimbledon, Sy scan : [unable to link, no Mary b.Sy or William b.Essex '61cen; no m/b vis in bmd]
William 54 at 31 Gower Pl, St Pancras, Marylebone'51cen; b.Exeter, Dev ’51cen ; Sarah 54 b. Ninehead?, S.set, both boot makers; James 17; John 17, both pianoforte makers; Ann 12, Edwin 10 scholars all b.St P; [sharing property with William 24 boot closer b.St P & Sarah A 30 b.Danbury, Ex]; & lodgers Mary & Harriett Dove 40 & 62 seamstress; 3rd family in house William Pike 32 house painter & wife Abigale 33; scan : [m.bef.1827]
William Soper 45 head london city missionary at 48 Sloane Square, Trinity, Middlesex '51cen, b.Deal, Kent; Mary Ann Soper 46; William Soper 14 errand boy; Emily Soper 12; Hannah Soper 7 all b.Margate, Kent; Edward Soper 4 all scholars b.Haggerstone, M.sx scan : [biog]
William H Soaper 42 uphosterer at 42 London Road (St George), Southwark, Sy '51cen, b.Lambeth, Sy; Mana D Soaper 40 b.St James, M.sx; William J Soaper 16; Elizabeth Ann Soaper 14 milliner ass?; Maria S Soaper 12 scholar; Mary J Soaper 10 scholar all b.Shoreditch, M.sx; John D Soaper 8 b.Spitalfields, M.sx all scholars; Charles A Soaper 6; Alice Soaper 1 both b.St George, Sy scan : [not vis '41/'61cen]
W Sopers 36 lodger porter at 58 New Cut, Lambeth, Sy '51cen, b.Ireland scan; with James Beaven beer shop keeper, son 10, house serv 24, & 4 lodgers, printer, smith & cain maker : [not vis elsewhere]
William Soper 31unm [assumed head as lodger crossed out] tinplate worker at 3 Spans Buildings, St Pancras, Camden, M.sx '51cen, b.St Sacks?, M.sx scan : [alone but 2 other household of 5 & 6 in house] : [not vis '61/'71cen]
William Soper 29 unm cabinet maker at 2 Earl St (Christchurch), Marylebone, M.sex '51cen; Mary Ann Soper 20 b.Chelsea, M.sex; William Soper 2 b.Pimlico, M.sex scan : [William m.Mary Ann 1847]
William Sopper 28 unm servant warehouseman at 36/7 Gutter Lane, City, M.sx '51cen, b.Sleaford, Lincs on full census page of clerks, porters & warehousemen in silk warehouse scan : [William m.Anne Reeve Jul>Sep 1852, Newington]
George Soper m.Jane Govier (or Jane Walter Schofield) Oct>Dec 1851, Kensington, Lon (bmd) [??assume family below] : Jane b.c1828 Markham Lake/Blandford, Dor
Elizabeth Soper Ingram b.Jul>Sep 1851 & d.Oct>Dec 1854, both Pancras, Lon
John (b.Hammersmith c1827) & Susan (b.Soham/Goham, Cambs c.1826) m.bef.1851 : [??from job & birthplace assume parents John plasterer m.Sarah bef.1831?] : [perhaps ?John m.Apr>Jun 1847, Kensington, Lon (to either Susan Gilby, Sophia Dawkins, Elizabeth Robins or Marian Seppines)?]
Thomas Erskine Souper (c1808-?) pleaded guilty, 8 July 1851 at Old Court, London, before Sir Chapman Marshall & jury. Embezzled 10 Bank notes, value £600, 10 sovereigns, 60 half-sovereigns, 50 half-crowns, 60 shillings, 60 sixpences, & other moneys & a £14 order for paymen. 1 sovereign & 14s & other Counts of William Blandford, his master. Thames Plate Glass Company. Aged 43. He received an excellent character. Confined 18 Months. from Old Bailey online [Company in West India docks but employed many agents] West India docks [m.Salome Fisher, Woolwich 1836]
John Soper (1778-1851) died 6 May 1851, aged 74, at Upper Holloway; from The Times 37/211p & 'The Standard' 'in his 74th year', 13 May from newspapers.bl.uk [a John d.Apr>Jun 1851, Islington (?& a Charlotte d.Jul>Sep 1860 Islington)]
George J Soper, Consulting & Advising Mine Agency, offices 11 Adam St, Adelphi; Can ascertain the value of mining setts; advice aided by experienced geologists ; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 24 Jan 1851, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
above from www.british-history Thomas Soper (or Soaper) : Co Co Bridge, 1680, 1690-3 1st Prec, London Bridge, 1662, St Olave Southwark, 1694 [1 WMBk, Bridge, will]. APO, appr, 1646, to Robert Clarke, W, 1690, Upper W, 1691 [Will, APO, Co MBk, I, f 488, G R B Barrett, The History of the Society of Apothecaries of London (1905), p 112]. d Jun 1694, bur ? St Olave : Will PCC 143 Box pr, 20 Jun 1694 f Richard Soaper of Cambridge, haberdasher [APO, Co MBk, I, f 488 (5) H of L, MS 154 ]. Apothecary [will] Land Middx [will]? Tory, not Whig [H of L, MS 154 (f), but not listed in Bodl Lib, Rawlinson MS D 734]
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Thomas Soper of St Clement Danes, M.sx, tailor. Took £327 bond 30 May 1664, from Sir John Coryton of West Newton Ferrers, & Bt. Coryton to pay £163 11s to Soper on following 29 Sep. Witnessed J Marshall. CY/1490 Cornwall Recordssource
Gilbert Soper, was the defendant in 'Lymborough v Soper' 1658, London : Case about a Messuage [building] : Plainiffs Edward & wife Dorothy Lymborough : refC6/25/102www.british-history : [conection to 'Jowles v Soper', 1664 in Kent]
: [The monarcy was restored with Charles II 8 May 1660]
: [There were 5 Physicians to the Person appointed to the new court June 1660. In addition 4 Physicians to the Person in Extraordinary appointed in Oct, the same day as Soaper 'perhaps just the day the lord chamberlain's warrant was signed'] : [extraordinary='used for a special service, or occasion']
: [some doctors apponted to the court, most to the person 'of the king']
: a Thomas Soper apothecary, governer of St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark; 1678 - 1693; Thomas Soper Apothecary London will proved 20 Jun 1694
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Thomas Soper of St Clement Danes, M.sx, tailor. 1661 Bond [from him to?] Sir John Coryton, W.Newton Ferrers, & Bt. & John Rashleigh of Coombe, Cornwall, esq : Soper to be paid £203 before 22 Apr following : witnessed, Henry Pengelly, J Marshall, Wm Stephens : Cornwall Record Office CY/1489 Cornwall Records
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Thomas Soper of St Clement Danes, M.sx, tailor. Took £327 bond 30 May 1664, from Sir John Coryton of West Newton Ferrers, & Bt. Coryton to pay £163 11s to Soper on following 29 Sep. Witnessed J Marshall. CY/1490 Cornwall Recordssource
John Soper, citizen & barber surgeon. Widow Anne Soper, dau Anne Soper, son John Soper, orphan Popham Soper - Court of Orphans, City of London Orphanage bonds & deeds - date: 1668 ref CLA/002/04/367 & CLA/002/02/01/0272 [igi connections? bapt to Ann & John, St Andrew, Holborn : Ann 21 Dec 1623 : John 1 Sept 1640 : Popham 9 Jun 1645 & other children listed]
Thomas Soper, got a licence to hold Presbyterian meetings in his house at Westminster [1 of only 24 houses in London] : State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672-3 ; www.british-history source
: Thomas Soper Governer 1687; & 1 of 4 stewards [or governers?] St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark; 17 Mar 1689 Mr Soper & Mr Bearcroft to view the drugs & medicines; [seems not a steward later in year] londonlives; a steward 1690 ‘Mr Soaper appoynted to view the druggs’ londonlives; governor 1691, 1692 & 1693
: Mr Soper apothecarie & 3 others, appointed 10 Dec 1691 to pursue payment of phisick bill londonlives
: Thomas Soper Apothecary London 20 Jun 1694 Wills Proved at Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Capt Soper & Co 'payee' : 'repayment of loan' £56 1s 8d 22 Jul 1679 : 1 of 1,260 people (almost all with 1st name : dates mostly May>Dec 1679) with £200,000 in registered loans or money due for paying for uniforms or quatering, in '2nd Disbandment Act' ; Charles II unable to disband his army 31 Jul 1678, as he did not have enough money from a poll tax due : Loans were for 8% but [believe] this list was treasury warrents, paper promises to pay, rather than payment, many weren't : www.british-history
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Major T Soper, 3 letters to Lord Dartmouth, Master of the Horse & Governor of the Tower. Re attempts to dispose of a commission in Dartmouth's Reg without his knowledge, appointment of a lieutenant & regimental vacancies: 14-20 Oct 1688. DW1778/I/i/1401,1452 & 1488. [Seems Soper picked the right side, as Oct 1688, Lord Dartmouth tried to intercept the Prince of Orange's Dutch invasion fleet but failed. The Prince became King & Dartmouth imprisoned (& d.1891) in the Tower ] www.a2a : [Thomas in soldier notes]
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Gilbert Soper, Barber, Surgeon ['Chirurgeon'] of St Martin in the Fields. His will 8 Mar 1689 nationalarchives Prob.11/394 [scan available online]
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Charles Soper of St Gregorie's, Lond. 2 marriages 'Alleged by' him on 15 Jul 1690, at East Garston, Berks; John Gilbert of Swandon, Wilts, gent c25 & Susanna Batten of EG c22 & John Hoippisley of Emborrow, Som c22 & Elizabeth Batten of EG c17 [m.by lic no Google Books snippet
- ? a Mary Soper bapt 1700 father "Charles Soper of Carter Lane" from*
: 1695; Charles, living at St Gregory, b.St Pauls; 1695 with wife Martha, children Charles, Thomas & Mary. Also children ['uncertain'] Eliz Baker Soper & Rob Baker Soper. Personal estate £600+; from 'London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695' : [implies Charles's wife nee Barker, a widow on m.1691]
: Charles Sopper of the Parish of Finchley, Herts; 2nd m.Mrs Philadelphia Betts, widow of Enfield at Enfield, 4 Jul 1708; from 17 Jun; vic gen; wid Frisson Barnet; from Boyds London Inhabitants scan
: 1714; Charles of Edmonton, Mx gent, son Francis apprenticed to Joshua Galliard of Thavies Inn, gent £107
: 1715 Made High Constable of Edmonton 26 Apr scan;
: 1717 signature above;
: 1717; Charles High Constable signed a petition of inhabitants of Edmonton in Jan 1717
: 1718; Charles 1 of 3 ‘Chief Constables of Hundred of Edmonton’ at Middlesex sessions; 25 Feb
: c1724 d.Edmonton, Probate granted 9 Jan 1724; #
: 1724; bur.7 Jan 1724 All Saints, Edmonton; Draper of Edmonton, with property in Clerkenwell & Foster Lane (Priest's Court) & Chelmsford, Essex
: 1724; Charles Soper a draper of Edmonton. Will Register, 9 Jan 1724 probate
: will [assume of Manasses]; 1701 'pcc 140 Dryer' sister Amy exix; bro Ephraim; mother Elizabeth; exoi Jn Beamont, gent Lyons ; wit; Fair Hext, Hum Hody & Wm Jones :
: will of mother Elizabeth of St Clements Danes 1703 PCC 33 Degg : dau Amy sp; house East Sheen, Surrey : dau Anne, son Ephraim chr.Elir Jun Ephraim; land, Wimbledon & West Hall : wit; Jn Smith, Hum Hody & Tho Lander
: Thomas Soaper, was living on London Bridge in 1693. [one of 34 tax payers listed as on the Bridge]. The tax called '4s in the £ aid' [To help pay for King William of Orange’s war with France], was assessed as {£4.40 Tax Assessment : £22 Property Value : £2.40 Tax Assessment : £200 Stock Value}: www.british-history, doc.19707 [only 5 other properties worth £200+]
: Jane Soper at P; 1720 Paid 6s May; June 6s; July 6s; Dead 30 Jul; Tot £1 4s londonlives
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Charles Soper was made High Constable of Edmonton, possibly 1715 Minutes of a meeting, London Metropolitan Archives : www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
: Mr Charles Soper of Edmonton; Attends here to be Sworne H: Constable; of Edmonton Hundred : recommended; PSr. D: Hechsletler; Mr. [mark] Feast; L: Clarke; 26 Apr 1715 Ordr; from Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents londonlives.org
: Mr Charles Soper High Constable signed a petition of inhabitants of Edmonton saying James Skegg was not guilty of stealing wood 5 Jan 1717 londonlives.org
: Charles Soper 1 of 3 ‘Cheife Constables of Hundrd of Edmonton’ at Middlesex sessions; 25 Feb 1718 londonlives.org : [Charles m.Martha 1691]
- Richard Soper b.11 Mar 1717, bpt.30 Mar 1718 at St Margaret scan
- William Soper b.10 Sep 1722, bpt.25 Sep 1722 at St Margaret, Westminster scan
- Anne Soper b.25 Oct 1723, bpt.30 Oct 1723 at St Margaret scan
- Susanna Soper b.1 Oct 1725, bpt.20 Oct 1725 at St Margaret scan
- Henry Soper b.12 Aug 1727, bpt.25 Aug 1727 at St Margaret scan
The King v Soper; Mr Joseph Williams; Take notice that I intend on Wednesday next by Ten of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day at Hicks's hall in St. John Street to Try the Traverse upon the Indictment preferred by you against me at the Last Sessions of the Peace there for a pretended assault said to be made by me upon you To which Indictment I have already pleaded not Guilty Witness my hand Monday 11 Oct 1725
- John Soper b.5 Oct 1731, bpt.18 Oct 1731 at St John the Evangelist, Smith Sq, Westminster scan
- Mary Soper b.10 Feb 1733, bpt.23 Feb 1733 at St John the Evangelist scan
- Elizabeth Soper b.13 Aug 1734, bpt.28 Aug 1734 at St John the Evangelist scan
- William Soper b.24 May 1736, bpt.4 Jun 1736 at St John the Evangelist scan
- Richard Soper b.3 Jun 1738, bpt.2 Jul 1738 at St John the Evangelist scan
: Thomas Soper neglecting; £4 6s upon his goods; Feb 1739 [& several other] towards repairing & amending the Highways Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents londonlives.org
- Elisabeth Soaper bapt.14 Feb 1739 at their house, the corner of Ironmongers Lane, witness Mrs Yesbury; scan; Bapt by Samuel Chandler from non-conformist registers; (Presbyterian), Old Jewry, Lon; [as siblings below]
- Samuel Soaper bapt.21 Aug 1741 at Ironmongers Ln witnesses the family : scan
- Mary Soaper bapt.15 Nov 1743 at Ironmongers Ln witnesses the family : scan
- George Soaper bapt.25 Aug 1745 bapt at their house in St Martyn le Grand, witnesses the family : scan
: 1752 John Soaper bur.15 Aug 1752 from St Lawrence Parish; buried in a grave; cost 13s 6p at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Rd, Lon : scan from non-conformist registers
: 1758 ?a Jane Soper widow examined & signed with an X; Samuel Soper, lately deserted his dau Martha Soper abt.4, left destitute. Apprenticed 7y abt.25y ago to Giles A Taylor of St Ann, Soho, M.sx [& is still chargable to St Ann] : Poor law settlement papers, St Anne, Soho, Shoreditch; 16 Oct 1758, scan
John Soaper, composer, born 1743. He was a lay-vicar of Westminster ... : British Musical Biography pub 1897 another snippet ....Smyth, SOAPER. late of the Royal Artillery. Studied a short time at the Leipzig .... GoogleBooks
: [Soper in the political mainstream as the 1745 Jacobite 'catholic rebellion' from Scotland was defeated at Culloden the next year]
: [Mr S Hayter's London haberdashery had a theft, 1751] : In Thomas Gale's 18thC book database
: [Soper Hayter, bankrupt haberdasher, King St, Cheapside 1754 bankrupt proceedings still in 1761]
: Mrs Soper, relict of Mr Soper Hayter, haberdasher, late of King St, shared (with her 2 brothers) the estate of her mother Mrs Martha Shipley, who died age 69, last Fri at her house, Baldwin's Court p.274 : google book snippet, no date [presume the 1751 entry above]
Soper Hayter, bankruptsy meeting 30 Aug at Guildhall, last opportunity for creditors to come forward or be excluded from the dividend
Soper Hayter, bankruptsy meeting 12 Nov 1755 to make a 2nd dividend (Gazette 18 Oct)
Soper Hayter, bankruptcy meeting 10 Apr 1761 at Guildhall to make a further dividend from bankrupt’s estate : 29 Apr at Guildhall meeting for a final dividend from bankrupt’s estate (Gazette 4 Apr) : [see 1745]
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J Soaper, one of many names contributing to 'Parochial Music'. Psalmody to use in country churches. Tunes in 3 & 4 parts. Work by some of the Principal Composers & Organists in London. Pub.by author William Riley, London, 1762 British Library. John Soaper, subscribed to it. It mentions 'the ridiculous & profane manner of singing practised by the Methodists' & 'Reflections on the bad Performance of Psalmody in London', from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists :
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John Soaper's Lyrics, about 20 of his songs ['The lambkins are skipping' is a recommended read] : [3 John Soaper subscriptions 1762, Portsmouth, Hants : 1777 London & 1794, London] : [composer 1743 & 1764]
: Mr Soper paid £194 7s 2d from The Covent Garden Precinct, to the Overseeer, St Botolph Aldgate Parish : Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor Account Books 1 Jan 1771 londonlives.org
: J Soper in St Botolph Vestry meeting 3 Dec 1772; John an overseer Nov 1774 & Dec 1775; May 1776; Mar 1777; Mar 1779; Mar 1780; Jun 1781; Apr 1782; Mar 1783; Apr 1784; Mar 1785; Jan 1786; Jan & Apr 1787; Apr 1789; May 1791; Mar 1793 & Apr 1794
connection? an Ambrose Soper bpt.21 Apr 1802; Elizabeth bpt.22 Mar 1800 & Mary Soper bpt.5 Jan 1806 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green to Ambrose James Soper & Elizabeth (igi)
connection? ..Thomas Soper m.Elizabeth Dubois (dau of above… b.17 Jun 1774); [possibly gap here?] their son Ambrose Soper, 8 Quaker St, Spitalfields m.Elizabeth Dubois : Thomas & Elizabeth's dau, Elizabeth Soper m.Ambrose Winhall & had son Ambrose : Quarto Series Vol.53 snippets from Google Books : [??an Elizabeth mar.William Winhall 21 May 1820, St.Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey]
connection? an Ambrose Soper m.Mary Sydenham 17 May 1812, Christ Church, Stepney, Spitalfields (igi):
connection? an Ambrose Soper bur.1816 (or 'Anbris Soper') : a non-conformist burial record : from www.bmdregisters.co.uk
: Mrs Soper, a stolen £30 note was cashed at a public house nr.Hosier Lane, Lon. Thief got £20 & £10 paid to Mrs Soper ‘for the use of the said’ City of London Sessions, Justices' Working Documents ; londonlives.org
- Mary Soper bpt.11 Feb 1776 (a Mary Ann bpt.1776); [?a Mary Ann m.24 Jan 1814 St.S]
- Elizabeth Soper bpt.Mar 1776 [unm 70 with brother '51cen]
- John Soper bpt.15 Feb 1778; [assume seperate household if James Down Soper the bpt.1781 below]
- James Down Soper bpt.11 May 1779;
- John Sooper bpt.11 Feb 1781; [John Downs Soper (c1880-1862) m.1811; (so perhaps the John bpt.1778 above)];
- James Soper bpt.4 Mar 1781; [??assume seperate household unless James Down Soper above d.]
- Joseph Soper bpt.18 Aug 1783
: '51cen John Downs Soper 70 widow, head; a hill customs superior? at 17 Marlboro Place, Old Kent Rd, Camberwell, Sy; & unm sister Elizabeth 74 both b.St Saviour, Sy also cousin Elizabeth Ren? 31unm b.Newington; & servants Caroline Saven 21unm Petworth, Sx & Jane Shipman 21 b.St George scan
: [Robert ran? 'White Cross in the Ayte', 1766-81 (previously called 'Ship in the Ayte' then Eel Pie Hotel, Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, 1960 gigs there inc Rolling Stones) - burnt down 1971 deadpubs.co.uk]
: [a Robert b.Twickenham c1781 served as a dragoon 1805-15, discharged aged 34. From above might guess father Robert d.1791 & mother Mary took over until Robert was 18??]
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Robert Soper (c1781-?) Private 15th Hussars; b.Twickenham, Brentford, Lon; Engaged 1805-15; wounded at Waterloo, a labourer on enlistmant : [see Military Records] : [father?? a Robert ran Eight Bells, 11 Bell Ln, Twickenham 1780]
& William Soper & wife settlement St George, Middx; taken from Mims, Wenton; magistrate R Bayley Esq; Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents Oct 1783; londonlives.org
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: Sarah Soper cost 9d for 3 days at ‘Staines, Colnbrook , Mims, Enfield, My House; Oct 1783 from Henry Adams Expenditure for the Use of Vagrants; Middlesex Sessions: Justices' Working Documents;
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: Elizabeth Soper (X) singlewoman maketh Oath 11 May 1793. About 6 years ago she was hired and lived as a hired Servant by the Year with Wm Middleton esq of Harley St, Cavendish Sq, St George Hanover Sq. M.sx at the yearly wages of 7 guineas & continued upwards of 2 years. Since quiting his service she has not lived as a hired servant for the space of a year & that she never was married; her mark; St Botolph Aldgate Parish: Pauper Settlement Exam : londonlives.org; Poor Law Abstracts 1742-1868
: “Lyd Elizth. Soper" patient of Dr Blane 10 Jul 1788 [*’Lyd 3 6 Eliz Soper’ what is Lyd? Father?]
: Joseph Soper chandler of Crown St, St Anne, Soho; voted Townshend 31 Dec 1788; from Westminster Pollbooks: Votes in Elections; londonlives.org
: Joseph Soper chandler of Crown St, St Anne, Soho; Rack Rent Value £18; 1 Jan – 31 Dec 1789 Westminster Ratebooks: Property Values of Westminster Elector londonlives.org
John Soaper, chorister in St Paul's Cathedral under William Savage ; Gentleman of the Chapel Royal & vicar-choral of St Paul's Cathedral; died June 5…. P267 'Scottish Church Music: Its Composers' pub1891 : Google Books
John Soaper, 13 Jun 1794, aged 52. Vicar Choral of St Alphage. this Church. (The Body was brought into Church attended by the Choir) p183 of 'The Registers of St Paul's Cathedral', pub1899 : Google Books [see artists]
John Soper (c1742-1794) buried, age 52, London (St Paul's Cathedral); London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
John Soaper, deceased, was brother of Ann Thomas Haynes widow of Rev William Haynes, a canon of St Paul's cathedral who died 20 Oct 1790 leaving 7 children b.1775-1787. In her will, she left the £5,000 inherited from her brother (in 3% consols). She willed the interest divided between her 7 children & when all died, divided between her grandchildren. In Hayes v Hayes 25 Feb to 24 Apr 1828 the grandchildrens' bequest voided as none alive when will was made : from 'High Court of Chancery' pub1844 : Google Books [Ann Thomas Soper m.William Haynes 16 Dec 1773 St.Benet, Pauls Wharf (igi) - parents? an Ann & Thomas Soaper having children Swanage, Dorset 1740s] : [a Soaper apprenticed to Ann Thomas Haynes 1712]
: Henry Soper was the father of a female bastard with Jane Bell (X) of St Botolph, Aldgate spinster, 29 Oct 1795 delivered. Child deceased by Jane's poor law examination 28 Nov. Henry late servant to (Mr) Hopkins & Co. of 36 Paternoster Row, chemist. Poor Law Abstracts [GL Ms 2676/21]
William Souper bapt, 1 Oct 1800, St Pancras, Old Church, Lon [igi] : [family 1797]
: William Soper fisherman of Wandsworth, took William Penny as an apprentice, assisted by Lee's charity : Egham Parish Records 1810; exploringsurreyspast.org.uk K36/1/202
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John Soper esq at anniversary dinner at City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate; for school of indiigent blind, in Morning Post 21 May 1808, from newspapers.bl.uk : [see John Soper 1813]
Walter Soper & Jane non-conformist bapt of William Soper bapt.1814, Jane Soper bapt.1815, Mary Ann Soper bapt.1823 (both Dev & Lon?) bmdregisters
- Samuel Soper b.c1809 Exeter, Dev, brass finisher m.Charlotte m.1835
- Susannah Soper b.c1828 St Lukes, M.sx; 71cen 45unm fancy stationer with bro;
: '51cen William 73 head brass finisher at 16 Coleman St, St Luke, Finsbury, M.sx; b.Exeter, Dev; Susannah 66 wife, b.Dorchester, Dorset; Susannah 23unm, 'c[heese] & butter maker' b.St Lukes, M.sx scan : [not vis '41cen]
: '61cen mother & sister Susanah 73, widow at 5 Lambs Buildings, St Luke, M.sx; b.Dorset, dau Susannah 33unm fancy stationer b.St Lukes & grandaughter Charlotte 18, mantle maker b.Shoreditch : [mother's d.not vis bmd]
: 1857??a William d.Apr>Jun 1857, St Luke
: 1864 ?a Susannah d.Oct>Dec 1864, St Luke;
: '71cen Samuel (c1808-?) brass finisher 63; at 65 Brittania St, Private House (or Redate Ho?), Shoreditch, b.Exeter, Dev; Mary Ann 56, b.Lower Maldon, Ex; Susanna 45unm fancy stationer, St Lukes, M.sx; 1st household in property of a proffesor of music & wife b.Exeter, Dev; scan
: Thomas Soaper d.Thurs night, a carpenter's death occasioned by the bite of a rattle snake, which he wantonly provoked in it's cage on 17 Oct 1809, 'The Hull Packet' 14 Nov, from newspapers.bl.uk : [igi; nearest, Thomas Soper b.11 Mar 1781 Swanage, Dor; a Thomas m.19 Apr 1802, St Mary, St Marylebone, Lon]
John Downs Soper (c1780-1862) gentleman, St Saviour, Southwark, marriage bond, 4 Apr 1811 to Ann Wrightson [m.6 Apr] source [Jno. Sooper bpt.11 Feb 1781 Southwark, St.Saviour, Lon or John Soper bpt.15 Feb 1778 (igi)]
: sister Elizabeth Soper (c1777-1857) b.St Saviour, London (like brother); d.1857 unmarried
- John Brown Soper (1812-13) bpt.20 Dec 1812 All Hallows, Staining (igi); bur age 1m 2d, 1813 All Hallows, Staining; London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com : [son of 'James Down Soper' who m.1811 above]
: [connections? parents? a James Soper m.Mary Downs 1773, All Hallows the Great]
: a brother? James Down Soper b.11 May 1779 at St.Saviour, Southwark : [??a James Soper b.4 Mar 1781 Southwark]
: 1809 J Soper & J Soper both contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark; Refuge for the destitute, Cupers Bridge, Lambeth, at anniversary Dinner 26 Jan, £755 collected, in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 8 Feb 1809; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: [James Soper merchant of Great Prescot St & Elizabeth; bpt.Sybella Soper 19 Jun 1814 at Whitechapel St Mary, Tower Hamlets; b.23/25 May : [? "James 22"?] scan & scan; Parish Records]
: [at 8 Upper Fort Place, Grange Rd 1824]
: Ann, d.26 Oct 1837, wife of John Downs Soper, of Marlborough Place
: sister; Elizabeth spinster, insured at 17 Marlborough Pl, Old Kent Rd, spinster 1830; Other property or occupiers: John D Soper : 28 Jan [Ann the other sibling; so property owner?]
: John Downs Soper, gent, 17 Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd was insured with Sun Fire Office. 8 Jan 1833 : Guildhall Library, www.a2a
: '41cen John 60-4 accountant?, at Marlboro Place, Kent Rd, Camberwell, St Giles, Surrey; [& assume sister] Elizabeth 60-4, Elizbeth 20-4 ind?, 2 servants Jane Abbot 20-4, Ann Ovialt 15-9 scan
: '51cen John Downs Soper 70 widow, head; a hill customs superior? at 17 Marlboro Place, Old Kent Rd, Camberwell, Sy; & unm sister Elizabeth 74 both b.St Saviour, Sy also cousin Elizabeth Ann? [or Ann Ren? not Soper?] 31unm b.Newington; & servants Caroline Saven 21unm Petworth, Sx & Jane Shipman 21 b.St George scan
: sister; Elizabeth d.8 Jan 1857, sister of John Downs Soper of Marlborough Pl, from 'The Morning Chronicle'
: '61cen John 80, customs superanuated, widower, 17 Marlbro Place, Camberwell, b.Southwark, Sy; cousin Elizabeth 40, unm merchant's dau b.Kennington, Sy & house servants Sarah Coppaerd 34 b.Camberwell & Ellen Townsend 21 b.Cirencester, Glos
: 1862 John Downs Soper (c1780-1862) esq d.9 Mar 1862 at Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd in his 82 year, 'The Examiner' (pub.London), 15 Mar 1862, from newspapers.bl.uk [d.Jan>Mar 1862 Camberwell]
: 1862 John Downs Soper d.9 Mar 1862, [age abt 82] of Upper Fort Place, Grange Rd, Bermondsey; late of Marlborough Place, Old Kent Rd, Sy, gent; died Marlborough Place; will with codicil; probate Principle Registry 5 Apr to Elizabeth Ann Soper Marlborough Place, spinster [cousin '61cen above?], John Jessee esq, Lyndhurst Rd, Peckham, Sy, Henry Sterry esq, Paragon, New Kent Rd, (3 executors); estate £40,000; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com)
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: 1803 Mark Lane : Mr Soper aiding an indebted family 1803
: 1804 Paid guinea pa to St Saviour school for indigent blind 1804
; annual payment, recorded 1804, 05 (both John & James), '07, '8 {& at their annual dinner at City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate}; John, merchant insured 1813
: 1808 John esq at anniversary dinner at City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate; for school of indiigent blind, in Morning Post 21 May 1808, from newspapers.bl.uk
: 1809 John & James both contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark (membership cost 1 guinea pa - some paid more), in Morning Post 10 Jun 1808
: 1813John Soper a merchant of 81 Mark Ln. Insurance Records of Sun Fire Office : 9 Dec 1813 & 24 Feb 1814 : ref MS 11936/461 www.a2a [died 1853?]
: 1814 James & Elizabeth assumed m.bef 1814
- Sybella Soper bpt.19 Jun 1814 Stepney, St Mary Whitechapel to James & Elizabeth : [added as a..] Sybella d.4 Aug 1891 at 7 Grove Rd, Brixton, eldest dau of late James of Edmonton; from The Times : [see biog lodging Portsea 71cen] : d.1891 Lambeth, age 77
- Eleanor Soper bpt.29 Feb 1816, St Alphage, Greenwich : d.1888 Lambeth, age 72
- Elizabeth Ann Soper b.c1820 b.Lambeth; '81cen 61unm annuitant; d.28 Jun 1884, age 64, '3rd dau of James' : [??Ann Elizabeth Soper bpt.21 Feb 1819 Southwark, St George The Martyr]
- Margaret Soper bpt.26 Oct 1821 St.Mary, Newington, Kennington, Surrey to James & Elizabeth; '91 69unm on own means at Kennington; d.Chiselhurst, Kent 1897, age 75
- Mary Ann Soper b.c1819 Kennington; m.Henry Dover of Gloucester Rd, Upper Holloway at 27 Jul 1858 at Newington; youngest dau of James of Newington Place, Kennington scan
: 1815 James esq of Prescott St & John of Mark Ln paid £1 to charity 1815
: 1819 ?a James an officer of the Magdalen Hospital (1 of 12 Stewards inc Lord Kenyon, Admiral Orde & Sir Hunter) at 5pm dinner & AGM of governers, held at London Tavern after 1pm sermon in chapel [since institution, 4,700 young women admitted 3,200 restored to friends or placed in service; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 15 Apr 1819, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: 1831 John Soper of Mark Ln, City, broker & 4 other brokers consolidated their unpaid debts of Edward Carroll & Gopsill Brown of Great Winchester St, Lon, merchants into one indenture London Gazette 13 Dec 1831 & in 'Morning Post' newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [7 Mark Ln entries, 1813]
: 1834 James (ins) politics 1834
: 1834 John wheelwright livery & James barber livery of 81 Mark Lane, All Hallows, Staining, City of London; house & livery qualified them to be on Electoral List; 1834-37, scan1; 2; 3; by 1841 James not at address, but 3 voters at 81 Mark Ln; John qualified to vote by freehold house at Windmill Hill; John Soper jnr vote from freehold house at Enfield Town, tenant, T F Cutbush; & Thomas James Soper vote from freehold house at Enfield Town, tenant, Mrs Cutbush 1841-58 scan scan2; John not on list by 1852 scan
: 1835 J Soper Mark Ln, voter 1835
: 1837 John & James brokers of London, 22 Mar 1837, assisted sale if 200 tons of lead from Bog Mine, Shrops to a London lead merchant
: 1840 John & James, signed petition 'Religious Destitution of the Colonies' asking Lord Mayor to support 'Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts'; in 'Morning Chronical' 2 Apr 1840, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: '41cen ??? perhaps John 60-4; Elizabeth 60-4; Elizabeth 20-4 ind?, 2 servants Jane Abbot 20-4, Ann Ovialt 15-9 "perhaps 'accountant'? Wealthy households nearby
: '41cen; not vis; James age abt 59
: 1841 James bankrupt broker 1841 (perhaps John also?)
: 1844 ?James 1 of abt 100 on committee [perhaps a liveryman] to support Alderman Brown for Chamberlain, at London Tavern; in 'Morning Chronical' 3 Sep 1844 scan
: 1849 ?James esq 1 of abt 100 on committee for the election of Mr Bridgemaster for the City of London; in 'The Era' (pub.Lon) 25 Feb 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk
: 1849 ?a James 1 of 32 on committee of Magdalen Hospital, Blackfriars Rd, requesting funds as leases that financed it expiring since built 90y ago. Increased from 40 to 120 penitents with plans for 200 24 Mar 1849 : scan
: '51cen; ??? perhaps John 73 retired from business, independent, at 12 Carlton Villas, Camden Rd, Islington, M.sex; b.Southwark, Sy; Charlotte 62 & wife & her unm sisters, Jane & Anne Thomson 68 & 64 all b.-,Essex & servant Elizabeth Hayward 40unm b.Bethnal Green
: '51cen; not vis; James age abt 69
: '51cen Sybilla 36unm niece at 9 St Albans Terrace (St Mary), Lambeth, Sy; b.Whitechapel, M.sx, niece with Ann Charriere 63 widowed annuitant b.Greenwich, Kt; 1st householder Darby Bayley 64 law writer b.Mitcham, Sy; wife Sarah Jane 63 b.Thrapston?, Ex children 6m to 36? & gen serv 20 scan scan; [what was her relationship to aunt?]
: 1851 John (1778-1851) d.6 May 1851, age 74, at Upper Holloway; from The Times 37/211p & 'The Standard' 'in his 74th year', 13 May from newspapers.bl.uk
: 1853 John will '53 merchant of Mark Ln, City of London, will probate 31 Dec 1853
: 1856 James of 81 Mark Lane, 1 of 16 brokers more than a year in arrear & accordingly discharged from office of broker in the City 1856; scan
: 1858 James, on committee of Magdalen Hospital for penitent prostitutes, founded 1758; Centenery dinner, at Albion Tavern, Aldersgate St 21 Apr 1858; scan
: 1858 James of Newington Place, Kennington when youngest dau Mary Ann married at Newington
: '61cen James 79 at 11 Canterbury Row, Newington; b.St Saviours Southwark; & unm dau Eleanor 45 b.Greenwich, Kt, Margaret 39 b.Kennington, Sy; their occupations not known
: '61cen Eliza A 41 servant Waterloo Cottage, Waterloo, Hants; b.Lon; in household of Henry G Mitcalfe 36 (master of arts?), wife, 4 children 7-2 & 3 servants
: 1862 James Soper d.19 Nov 1862, of 11 Canterbury Row, St Mary Newington, Sy; at Principle Registry 5 Jan 1863 to Sybella Soper of 2 Newington Place, Newington; one of James's children; estate under £1,500 gent & widower; National Probate Calendar
: 1862 James (c1782-1862), d.19 Nov 1862, in his 81st year, 11 Canterbury Row, Newington; Formerly of Mark Lane; from The Times
: 1862 James d.19 Nov 1862, gent & widower of 11 Canterbury Row, St Mary Newington, Surrey; Administration [ie no will], Principle Registry 5 Jan 1863 to Sybella Soper of 2 Newington Place, Newington; one of deceased children; estate under £1,500; died 11 Canterbury Row; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com) : [James d.Oct>Dec, Newington bmd] : [Sybella (c1814-1891) eldest dau]
: 1869 Miss Soper guest staying at [boarding house] Sandringham House, Nightingale Rd, Southsea 16 Oct & in lists there to Mar 1872; scan
: '71cen Sybella Soper 45 'married' annuant at Sandringham House, Osborne Rd, Portsea; b.Lon; a household head scan [so not guest?];
: '71cen Ellanor 55unm at 82 Kennington Pk Rd, Lambeth; b.Greenwich, Kt; Margaret 49unm b.Newington, Sy, 1st household in property Maria Hearth 62 'let apartments & sisters Elizabeth 61 & Mary A 59, all unm scan
: '71cen Elizabeth 51unm annuitant at 7 Grove Rd, Lambeth; b.Kennington; with brother-in-law Henry Dover 54 widow b.Clerkenwell, sister Mary Ann Dover 52unm governess annuitant, dau Maud M 11 both b.Kennington, son Henry J Dover 10 b.Lon, cook Mary Shepherd 21unm & maid Emma Briant 18 scan
: 1880 George Robert Soper wine merch nr59 1880] (perhaps John & James Downs Soper? see above & 1824)
: '81cen Sybella 66unm on dividends lodging at 'Somerton', Efrides Rd, Tormoham , Dev; b.Whitechapel, M.sex with George 52 & Mary Payne 50 wine merchant of London
: '81cen Ellanor 64 (head) unm independant at 82 Kennington Pk Rd, Lambeth; b.Greenwich, Kt; Margaret 59 b.Kennington, Sy, unm independant
: '81cen Elizabeth A 61unm sister-in-law at 7 Grove Rd, Lambeth; b.Lambeth, Sy; with Henry Dover 64 widowed clerk national debt office (civil serv) b.Clerkenwell, Msx; Maud M Dover 21 b.Islington; Henry J Dover 20 tea brokers clerk; b.Lambeth; & cooks/dom serv Isabella Frost 21 b.Bow & Kate Arthur 20 b.E.Tytherley, Hants; scan : [sister Mary Ann m.Henry Dover 1858, (unm sister Sybella 76 with Maud Dover '91cen)]
: 1884 Elizabeth Ann d.28 Jun 1884, spinster of 7 Grove Rd, Brixton Rd, Sy; died 7 Grove Rd; administration Principle Registry 11 Aug 1884 to Sybella Soper of 178 Kennington Rd, Lambeth, Sy, unm sister & one of next of kin; estate £19,932 6s 4d ; from Probate Calender, scan : [Elizabeth Ann (c1820-1884) d.Apr>Jun, Lambeth, age 64] : [3rd daughter of James Soper; from The Times 1 Jul]
: 1888 Eleanor (c1816-88) died 21 Jul 1888 at 82 Kennington Pk Rd, 2nd dau of late James formerly of Edmonton; from The Times 24 Jul; 'loved & lamented' from 'The Standard' 23 Jul
: 1888 Eleanor d.21 Jul 1888, spinster of 82 Kennington Pk Rd, Lambeth, Sy; died Kennington Pk Rd; administration Principle Registry 22 Aug 1888 to Margaret Soper of 82 Kennington Pk Rd, spinster sister & one of next of kin; estate £8,706 16s; from Probate Calender, scan : [d.Jul>Sep age 72, Lambeth, Lon/Sy]
: '91cen Sybella 76unm living on own means at 7 Grove Road, (St Michaels), Lambeth, Lon '91cen; b.Whitechapel, Lon living with neice Maud M Dover 31unm own means, b.Holloway, Lon & unm dom cook 28 & housemaid 24; scan : [youngest sister Mary Ann m.Henry Dover 1858]
: '91cen Margaret 69 on own means, in 2 rooms at 82 Kennington Park Rd, Lambeth, also at address (in 5+ rooms) Eliz Heath 80 b.City & gen serv Rose Purdy 20; scan
: 1891 Sybella d.4 Aug 1891, spinster of 82 Kennington Pk Rd, but late of 7 Grove Rd, Brixton, Sy; died 7 Grove Rd; at Principle Registry 14 Nov 1891 to Henry James Dover, 78 Sistova Rd, Balham, gent, nephew [see '81cen above] & one of the persons entitled in distribution; estate £12,397 7s 4d ; from Probate Calender, scan : [Sybella (c1814-1891) d.Jul>Sep, Lambeth, age 77]
: 1897 Margaret Soper (c1822-1897) d.Jul>Sep 1897, Brighton, Sussex, age 75
: 1897 Margaret Soper d.3 Sep 1897, spinster of 'Glen Avon', Chiselhurst, Kent; probate London 11 Oct 1897 to Henry James Dover, gent; estate £16,923 2s 9d ; from Probate Calender, scan; [Margaret 75 d.Brighton, Kt, Jul>Sep 1897]
- Thomas Soper; bpt.17 Jul 1814, at St Luke, Chelsea; father a fishmonger; father scan
: 1781 Robert Soper, apprenticed to John Howard, watchmaker 6 Dec 1781 at New Brentford, Middlesex; ; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
- Amelia M Soper b.c1818-25 St Anns, Soho, Lon
: '41cen Ann 15-9 dress maker Gowen Place, north, St Pancras & Amelia 10 dress maker both b.Hants with Henry Young 25-9 carpenter, Sarah Dew 50-4 milliner, Caroline Webb 25-9 milliner, Elizabeth Webb 15-9 milliner all b.Hants
: '51cen Mary A 35 dressmaker at 12 Harpus St, St George the Martyr, Finsbury, M.sx, b.Winchester, Hants scan & Amelia 31 dressmaker b.Soho, St Ann, M.sx
: '61cen Mary Ann 38, head, dressmaker at 29 Great Olmond St, Holborn St George the Martyr; b.Winchester & sister Amelia 36 b.Lon, also lodger Robert JasTiffin abt 1842 Bloomsbury
: '71cen Mary Ann dressmaker 57 at 7 Percy Sq, Clerkenwell, St James, b.Winchester, St Thomas, Hants; Amelia 53 dressmaker, b.Soho, St Anns, M.sx; scan
: '81cen Mary A 60unm dressmaker at 3 Spencer Rd, Lon; b.Winchester, Herts & sister Amelia M 56unm dressmaker b.Soho, M.sex; scan : [Mary not vis '91cen or d.in bmd]
: 1886 ?an Amelia Martha Soper (c1820-1886) d.Apr>Jun 1886, Islington, Lon, age 66
: '91cen ?an Amelia 68unm laundress in 1 room at 85 Camden St, (Camden Town), St Pancras, Lon; b.Somers Town, Lon; scan; (12 in 4 households at address) : [seems not, as an Emily 50unm laundress at that 85 Camden St '81cen see]
: Abraham (c1767 - ) age 47, sentenced to 14y transportation for embezzlement at Old Bailey, 22 Sep 1814 scan : [no Abraham vis Oz notes]
: Abraham; died 2 Jul 1817; Prison Hulk Register nr1298; page 30 scan
- William Robert Soper b.9 Mar 1817; bpt.9 Nov at St George, Hanover Sq [14 that day]; to Robert a colourman & Mary of Union St scan
- John Stokes Soper b.? : assumed only from the 2 deaths 1840 & 41
- Francis Lesiter Soper b.c1819 Spittlefields; m.Mary Ann Blackwell, 1855 Oxford; a Margate school master, then London publisher; d.1913
- Richard S[tokes] Soper b.c1820 Spitalfields; '51cen 31unm washline maker; '61cen sash manufacturer; d.Oct>Dec.1867, age 47, Whitechapel, Lon
- Angelina S Soper b.c1830 Norton Falgate, M.sex, dress maker; mother's executor 1868; '71cen 44unm; m.John Cox Jan>Mar 1876 Edmonton, Lon
: 1831 John Stokes Soper had a Sun Fire Office insurance policy : Rev Richard Tillard rector of Bluntisham, Hunts & John Stokes Soper Other property or occupiers: 1-5 Blossom St, Norton Falgate : 24 Feb 1831; Guildhall Library, ref MS 11936/526/1121392 www.a2a :
: 1832 John Stokes Soper 4 Blossom St, Old Artillery Ground. Tower Hamlets, Norton Folgate; house qualified him for Electoral List; 1832-40; scan, '35, '40
: 1840 John Stokes Soper d.Apr>Jun.1840 Whitechapel; bur.Golden Lane; City of London Burials, from findmypast.com : [father or son?]
: 1841 John Stokes Soper d.Jan>Mar 1841 Shoreditch Whitechapel; bur.Golden Lane; City of London Burials, from findmypast.com : [father or son?]
: '41cen Jane 55-9 at 4 Blosom St, Tower Hamlets, Norton Folgate Liberty, M.sx; Richard 20-4 washline maker; Angelena 10, Richard Buck 25 paper maker, Ebenezer Lamble 25-9 painter
: '41cen Francis 22 usher at boy school in Orsett, Essex; George Maconachie 27 schoolmaster, Maria 20, Rebecca Payne 20 needlewoman; servants Esther Pust 22, Louisa Elliot 20, Mary Unnin 17 & 40 boy students 9-13; scan
: 1842 Mrs Jane Soper, sash line mfr, 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate, Robsons London Directory 1842 & 1843 Post Office London Directory source
: '51cen Jane C 63 widow, proprietor of houses at 4 Blossom St, Liberty of Norton Folgate, Tower Hamlets, M.sx, b.Gridelton, Wilts; Richard 31unm patent line manufacturer; Angelina S 21 milliner all b.M.sx scan
: '51cen Francis 32unm school ass, teacher of music at Potter St, Worksop, Notts; b.Lon; under Batus Heldenmaier 54 Swiss schoolmaster, his wife; german, music & classics teachers, 2 washerwomen & 54 scholars, shoe boy, cook, 2 nurses, 2 housemaids, nursemaid & chemistry teacher's family next door scan
: 1851 R S Soper of 4 Blossom St. Norton Folgate, exibited in Flax & Hemp class in 1851 Great Exhibition; Manufacturer of patent lines, of various sizes, used for hanging window sashes, fancy skipping ropes ext source
: 1853 Jane Soper (Mrs) sash line mfr, 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate; PO Directory
: 1852 Richard Stokes Soper on electorial list for house at Collingwood St, Boundary St, St Matthew Bethnal Green 1852-63
: 1860 R S Soper sash line mfr, 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate & 15 Collingwood St, Shoreditch; Blowers Directory 1860 source
: '61cen Jane C 73, at 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate, M.sx; widowed proprietor of house; b.Gindleton, Wilts, son Richard S 41, a ?patent? lace manufacturer b.Spitalfields & Angelina 34, dress maker, b.Norton Falgate, M.sex
: 1866 Soper of 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate; wanted (ireergroeery and foal T... ; [snippet of] advert, Clerkenwell News London, 7 Jul 1866
: 1868 Richard Stokes Soper d.25 Dec 1867, patent sash manufacturer of 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate, M.sx; will 13 Feb 1868 to Francis Lesiter Soper of 4 Belsize Terrace, St Johns Wood, publisher, brother; Angelina Soper of 4 Blossom St, unm sister & John Cox of 48 St Mary Axe, City, cooper [assume later Angelina's husband], the executors; estate under £5,000; from Probate Calender, scan : Soper (c1820-1867) d Oct>Dec Whitechapel Lon; age 47
: 1868 Jane Colinborn Soper d.29 Oct 1868, widow of 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate; died at Blossom St her will with codicil proved at the Principle Registry 26 Feb 1869 to Angelina Soper of 4 Blossom St, spinster, dau of executrix; estate under £800; from Probate Calender scan : [d.Oct>Dec, Whitechapel, Lon, age 81 bmd]
: '71cen Angelina Soper 44unm, no occupation, 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate; b.Norton Folgate, M.sx; at 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate & servant Elizabeth Parvell 25 unm gen serv: scan : ['81cen, Angelina not vis (as Soper)]
: Angelina Soper (/Angeline) m.John Cox Jan>Mar 1876, Edmonton, Lon
: '81cen Angelina Cox 54 b.Norton Folgate at 36 Gateley Rd, Event Place, Lambeth, Sy; with husband John Cox 56 b.Whitechapel, dau Bessie Cox 21 b.Lon & servants Elizabeth Darnell 35 & Rachael Wells 22
: [perhaps the the W Soper churchwarden of St Matthew, BG chairing reformist politics meeting 1834]
: [insured 105 Brick Ln 1817, 1819 & 1828]
: [home 9 St James's Place, St Matthew, Bethnal Green, freehold house at Green St qualified him for Electoral List 1837-44 scan - scan; by 1845 address Old Ford Lane, St Matthew, Bethnal Green on electorial list from property in Old Ford Ln & 9 St James Pl scan; & assume at 6 Park Terrace, Old Ford Ln 1847, on electorial list from 59 & 60 Green St scan]
: ??'41cen William Soper 80-4 ind, at St James Place, Tower Hamlets, St Mattew, Bethnal Green; Sarah 60-4; William 40-4 ind Pricillor Paddington 15 servant
: 1848 William snr d.18 Jun 1848 age 87 at his residence 6 Park Terrace, Victoria Park
: 1843 Harriot Sarah Soper (c1797-1843) died aged 46, 5 Aug 1843 at Bethnal Green, wife of W Soper esq
: '51cen ? a William 50unm annuitant/gentleman at York & still with Bingley family (drugist/baker) & in York '61/'71cen; d.1875 York age 75 see
: 1854 ??owned houses nr.4 to 15 Arundel St, Bethnal Green, summoned for £2 17s sewers rates 1854
: Mr & Mrs James Soper, contributed a guinea to school for indigent blind, St George, Southwark; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 21 Jan 1817
: James Soper 1 of 10 stewards at anniversary dinner of School of Indigent Blind, (on the table 5:30pm, tickets 14s available from the stewards) 16 Mar 1820; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 22 Jan scan: John Soper & James Soper paid a guinea at the meeting 'Morning Post' 20 Mar scan [names repeated in 13 paid paper adverts]
: James £5 subscription to provide temporary relief & night shelter to the homeless during present inclement season; 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 14 Jan 1820, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan [1819-20 freezing; -23c recorded in Kent; source]
: John Soper & J Soper contributed 1 guinea ea to Indigent Blind School 1821
: William, age 18 sentenced to 7y transportation for larceny at Old Bailey, April Sessions 1818 scan
: a William Soaper on the Globe, from Portsmouth to Sydney, via Madera, 9 Jan 1819 with 143 convicts : www.blaxland.com
- William Thomas Drinkwater Soper bpt.2 Jan 1820
- Elizabeth Maria Emma Soper bpt.30 Dec 1821
- George John Soper bpt.9 May 1824 [a George John m.Mary Ann Waters Syrett 1846] ['61cen builder]
- Elizabeth Maria Soper bpt.11 Dec 1825; ?an Elizabeth Maria m.Jul>Sep 1847, Bermondsey, Lon (to either James Fuller, William Henry Davis, Jacob Joseph or ? ?)
- William Burgess Soper bpt.2 Sep 1827
- John Richardson Soper bpt.30 May 1830 : bricklayer '51cen; m.Catherine Eleanor Ryne, Jan>Mar 1865 Newington [a bankrupt builder of Blue Anchor Rd, Lon 1865]
- Henry William Soper bpt.7 Apr 1833 [??a Henry William d.Jan>Mar 1843, Newington]
- Mary Ann Soper bpt.7 Sep 1834 [a Mary Ann m.Jul>Sep 1852 or m.Jul>Sep 1858, Newington]
- Alfred Thomas Soper bpt.8 May 1836 [a bankrupt builder of Walworth, Surrey 1866]
- Frederick William Soper b.c1839 Newington, Sy ; '61cen 21unm line/lime worker with parents, m.Elizabeth Ellen Payne 1863
- Thomas W Soper b.1840 Surrey : ['51cen age 11; not vis bmd]
: brother? William builder of Margate, Kt; b.1780 St Giles, Dev; m.Gertrude Venner 1806 Deal, Kt
: 1840 John & Elizabeth Maria Soper beer-sellers of Mead's Row, Old Kent Rd
: 1841 John, late of 8 Meadow Row, New Kent Rd, (formerly of Rodney Buildings, NK Rd); builder, undertaker, licenced to sell beer (at British Queen beer shop at 8 Meadow Row, (corner of William St) : In Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Insolvency court wife ass to Mrs Drinkwater, laundress of Meadow Row
: ’41cen John 50-4 builder at Meargio Av?, Lambeth, St Mary Newington, Sy, Elizabeth 40-4, George 17, John 10, Sam 10, Henry 8, Mary Ann 6, Alfred 4, servants Sarah Rowell 14, Hanna Batt 20-4, all but John b.Surrey scan [next door] at Meadow Row b.Sy with John Chapman 71 leather finisher, Elizabeth Dutton 20, Julia Dutton 13, John Smith 34 bookbinder, Mary Smith 30-4, Frederick Soper 2
: 1850 John of the British Queen, 8 William St, Meadow Row, New Kent Rd, Sy, licensed beer retailer & carpenter, bricklayer & builder as J Soper & Sons & having a shed in William St. Interim [bankruptcy] order
: 1851 John of William St, Meadow Row, New Kent Rd, Surrey, licenced retailer of beer; required to appear before before Commissioner Harris 12 Nov 1851; The Jurist
: '51cen John 60 builder & beerseller at 12 Meadow Row, (St Mary), Newington, Sy; Elizabeth 53; John K 21 bricklayer all b.Lambeth?, Sy; Maryann 16; Alfred T 15 & Thomas W 11 scholar all b.Sy scan (none vis '61cen)
: '61cen John 72 bricklayer at 1 St Andrews Place, Newington, Sy; b.Blk Fu Rd, Sy; Elizabeth M 68; Fredrick W 21unm line worker, both b.Newington, Sy; also son-in-law Joseph Whiting 37 carpenter b.St George, Sy, Maud Whiting 35 b.Reigate, Sy sons Joseph 11, Henry W 8, Arthur F 5, William A 3 b.Camberwell, Sy, Elizabeth M 1 b.Greenwich, Kt, also lodger John J Russell 26unm b.Greenwich, Kent: [perhaps Maude Whitney was Miss Soper, (miss-transcribed as Marie?) - no Soper/Whiting m.vis bmdk children arent vis under Whiting]
: '61cen George J 37, a builder at 1 Grove Ln, Camberwell, b.Newington, Sy; wife Mary Ann W b.Norwich, Norfolk, George John 8 & Edwin C 6 both scholars, b.Southwark, Sy also widowed mother-in law Mary Syrett, formerly wife of a confectioner, b.Cusan, Norfolk & servant Lydia Buster b.Lomestop, Norfolk
: '61cen John R 31, bricklayer at 77 Borough Rd, Southwark, b.Newington, Sy, wife Catherine 25 b.Hammersmith, Mx : children Annie M C 3: John C 10m both b.Southwark, Sy, also unm bro-in-law Charles R Pyne 26, a sailor b.Hammersmith, Mx : John Richardson Soper m.Jan>Mar 1857 Newington
: '61cen Alfred Thos 26, builder at 1 Loughton? St, Lambeth; Emily 26 both b.Newington, Sy
: 1866 Elizabeth Maria (wife of John) by John her next friend; Defendants: [sons] George John & John Richardson Soper. Soper v Soper bill & demurrer. Plaintiffs: SFP. Cause number: 1866 S163. source : [before 1882 a woman would sue through 'next friend' a husband or male relative] : [Alfred bankrupt 1866] :
: 1866 John (c1789-1866) of St Mary parish; discharged from London Workhouse 25 Dec 1866, as died, age 77; Workhouse Registers scan
: 1866 John Soper (c1789-1866) d.Oct>Dec 1866, age 77, Newington, Lon
: '71cen ?? an Eliza Soper (c1794-?) 77unm annuitant at 188 East St, St Mary Newington; b.Dartmouth, Dev; lodging with William Wades 32 a bricklayer wife & 5 children 1 to 9 ; & 2nd household of George Marshall 24 a tin plate worker & wife Jane 22, all b.Surrey scan
: 1879 Elizabeth Maria Soper (1798-) age c81 unm, laundress, admitted to Newington Workhouse, Westmoreland Rd, Southwark 16 Jan 1879; chargable to Newington; from Wh Registers scan
: 1881 ??an Elizabeth Soper (c1800-1881) discharged from Newington Workhouse as dead, 4 Mar 1881; diet class 6; sick widow (2 discharged dead that day); Wh Registers scan : [Elizabeth d.Jan>Mar, age 81, Southwark, St Saviour]
John Soper We believe moved to Saint John. A son, Samuel Seymour Soper b.23 Apr 1852, d.1859, John, with his wife, 5 sons & 6 daughters lived in Brunswick, Queens County, from George L Soper, Rothesay, NB : sources : [Seymour, surname of Gamblin's mother]
- William Soper b.1821; '51cen a tinplate worker 31 unm; not vis '61cen
- Sarah Soper b.1826
- Ann Soper b.1828
- Arthur Soper b.1832 Clerkenwell, M.sx
- Henry Soper b.1834 Clerkenwell; '61cen Henry 27, Louisa 26; Henry 5 & George 2 all b.Pancras [(m.not vis bmd)]
: '41cen Arthur 46 tin plate worker at 24 Aylesbury Place, Clerkenwell, St James, M.sx, Sarah 42, neither b.M.sx, William 20 tin plate worker, Sarah 15, Ann 13, Arthur 10, Henry 7, all b.M.sx
: 1848 ??an Arthur Soper placed at the bar, charged with being riotous & disorderly. Mr Waters flung a stone & a mob collected & kicked the arresting PC insensible; 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 12 Apr : [only adult in '51cen]
: '51cen Arthur 53 tin plate worker at 2 Thornly Place, St Pancras, M.sx; Sarah 53 both b.Exeter, Dev; Arthur 19; Henry 17 both tin plate workers both b.Clerkenwell, M.sx; with niece Sarah Thomas 2 b.Clerkenwell; scan
: '51cen William 31unm [assumed head as lodger crossed out] tinplate worker at 3 Spans Buildings, St Pancras, Camden, M.sx, b.St Sacks?, M.sx scan [not vis '61cen]
: '61cen Arthur 66 a tinplate worker & wife Sarah 66 both b.Exeter, Dev
: 1870 Alfred Soper (1796-); age c74 admitted to City Road Workhouse, Holborn 1 Oct 1870; & discharged 10 Apr 1871; Workhouse Registers scan : [no Alfred listed in '71cen (2 Apr); but an Arthur 75 in City Road Workhouse ]
: '71cen Arthur (c1796-?) tinsmith 75, b.Exeter, Dev; at the Workhouse Holborn Union, City Rd, (St Leonard), Shoreditch, Lon [on page of 25 elderly male paupers, 582 inmates, under master, William Dawiles? 35, wife, son & 8 staff] : scan
: 1872 Arthur (c1796-) admitted from St Luke to City Road Workhouse, Holborn, 9 Mar 1872; Discharged 10 Apr to Clerk'll?; home? Bath Sq; London Workhouse Registers scan & scan
: 1874 Arthur admitted to City Road Workhouse, Holborn, 9 Mar 1872; Discharged, as dead 20 Dec 1874, London Workhouse Registers scan
: 1874 Arthur Soper (c1796-1874) d.Oct>Dec 1874, Shoreditch, Lon, age 78 : [d.20 Dec 1874 above]
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George Soper, of Portsea [assume co-incidentaly] contributed 2 guineas to collection for The Life Guards [36 injured when on crowd control at Queen Caroline's funeral 15 Aug - 2 of the crowd died, 1 shot by a guardsman]. Soper said 'in approbation of the splendid bravery which they subdued their resentments'; in '' (pub.) 10 Sep 1821, from Morning Post (pub.Lon) newspapers.bl.uk : scan
- William Henry Soaper bapt.3 Mar 1822 Walworth; father a carpenter of East Ham; bpt by Thomas Blanchard : scan
- George Soaper bapt.2 Jul 1826 Walworth; father a carpenter of Grove St, Walworth Common; bpt by J Knowles : scan
- John Ebenezer Soaper bapt.25 Jul 1828 Walworth; mother of Grove St; bpt by Thomas Rowland : scan
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James Soper, 1 of 45 stewards (inc a Earl 4 'sirs' 2MPs & 4 aldermen at 14th AGM dinner (5pm) Royal Humane Society, patron the King, president Duke of Northumberland,; in 'Morning Chronical' 26 Mar 1821, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
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James Soper, steward of City of London National Schools; annual examination of the children at Central School in front of Duke of York. After dinner at London Tavern; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 22 Apr 1822, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
Mr Soaper said [about the Forgery Punishment Mitigation Bill, 23 May 1821] that a reduction in severity of criminal penalties would increase security to property [previous witness said London's small businesses did not report crime because of severe sentences]; The from 'Parliamentary Debates' - 1822 [James Soaper claiming the same 1829]
: [see US immigration page - Thomas & Joshua T Soper emmigrated 1827-59, from US 1880cen]
: [Thomas & Mary m.St Marylebone, 1823]
Thomas Soper m.Mary Rhoades,1823 [from Pallots Register]. A family bible states St Marylebone, New Church, but not found in St Marylebone parish records : from London Rootsweb enquiry by Donna Colyer, USA '04 : [see also 1821]
??a Joshua (1826-) 74 landlord, widower, b.Sep 1826 England (parents b.Eng); immigrated to US 1858; at Midlothian village, Ellis, Texas; Charles 27 b.Mar 1873 labourer, Agnes 24 b.Oct 1876 both b.Indiana (their mother b.Germany) scan
- Eliza Soper b.Oct>Dec 1848, Whitechapel, Lon
- Joseph Soper b.Apr>Jun 1850, Whitechapel
- ? Soper , [2 other children alive by 1842]
: 1839 ?a Joseph age 37, admitted to Raine Street Workhouse, Stepney, Tower Hamlets; 4 Mar 1839, shoemaker, of unknown parish; sent here by Mr B Hall, supposed to be insane, but was only drunk scan; admitted St George in the East Workhouse, Stepney, Tower Hamlets; 5 Mar 1839 scan, scan
: 1842 Joseph 43 of 1 Baggetts Ct, stated; shoe maker, never apprenticed. Soldier to India 1819, m.Ann McGlaran, St Mary Church, St George Fort, Madras abt.23 Dec 1823. Returned 1835 & not rented a house since then. b.Shut/Street, Plymouth Dock, Street, Dev to Joseph & Tansine who m.Exeter?, c1782-82. 4 children living. 'X' his mark. Shoreditch poor law settlement papers 25 Nov 1842 scan
: 1842 ?a Joseph age 43 admitted to Shoreditch workhouse, Hackney; 25 Nov 1842; an Ann Soper 38 admitted same day & discharged 28 Nov to Sir? J Miles; Joseph discharged himself 23 Feb 1843 scan
: ?a Joseph Soper, workman, said he's not been an apprentice or yearly servant, Shoreditch Settlement Papers; 25 Jan 1843 scan
: '51cen Joseph 50 head shoemaker at 38th house, Gulston? St, St Mary, Whitechapel, M.sx, b.Devonport, Dev; Eliza 2; Joseph 1 both b.Whitechapel; also visiter William Hourley? 10 b.Marylebone, Lon scan : [not vis '61/'71/81cen]
: 1853 ?a Joseph age 42 returned from Birmingham & admitted to a St Marylebone Workhouse, Westminster; 29 Jul 1843, shoemaker; his character good scan
: 1854 ?a Joseph of Mile End Parish, admitted to Mile End Old Town Workhouse, Stepney, 20 Sep 1854; diet nr.1 [others on page had cholora] scan; scan
: 1855 ?a Joseph age 54 admitted to St George in the East Workhouse, Stepney; 9 Feb 1855 , shoemaker scan
: 1858 Joseph Soper 60 from vagrant ward, cohabiting with Mary Audley, she was a lunatic here, also 4 illigitimate children with her. Last Dec he became chargable to Hackney parish & was transfered to W.Lon Union. Belongs by sental? of father to St Budes, Fleet St, W L Union. Poor Law Orders of Removal from Bethnal Green 29 Apr 1858, scan : [d. not vis bmd or '61/'71/81cen]
: Thomas Soper 27 Stonecutter St, Fleet Market; Pigots Directory 1825-6 source
: 1873 Kelly guide has John & William Soper, 1873 at 107 Wardour St, but 1874 only William : Boyce & Soper at 28 Great Pulteney St & 1875-1876 at 6 Poland St, 1877-1881 only John Soper recorded there. John, engraver & William, enamel miniature painter 1882-1900. 1901 William Soper, moved to 91a Mortimer St & by 1904 John Soper at 51 Berwick St, continuing to 1967. William Soper 1904-5 at 223 Oxford St & by 1907 at 36 Ebury St. William Soper & Son at 136 Ebury St 1908-1919 : City of Westminster Archives : www.a2a [John & William's families in biog, artists]
: 01cen John H Soper 31 engraver & enameller (gold) at 60 Grantham, Lambeth, in '01cen (a 'worker'), b.Clapham, Lon & wife Kate Soper 32 b.Bayswater, London
: [parents Capt William Soper (c1755-1839) m.Elizabeth, bef.1795 Rotherhithe]
- Joshua Thomas Soper b.29 Sep 1826, bpt.7 Aug 1831 to Thomas, engineer & Mary, of 5 Commercial Rd, Pimlico, at St John the Evangelist, Smith Sq [, SW1] scan ; m.Margaret Schneider (1830-1899) 1852 below
- Alice Georgiana Soper b.25 Nov 1828, bpt.1 Feb 1829 at St Johns scan
- Catherine Sarah Soper b.6 Jul 1831, bpt.7 Aug 1831 at St Johns scan
- Ann Louisa Eliza Soper b.4 Oct 1833, bpt.3 Nov 1833 at St Johns scan, Thomas engineer of 31 St Georges Row, Pimlico
- Agnes Elizabeth Soper b.21 Oct 1835, bpt.6 Dec 1835 at St Johns scan
- Matilda Charlotte Soper b.28 Dec 1837, bpt.4 Feb 1838 at St John the Evangelist, Smith Sq scan of 31 St Georges Row
: 1829 at 3 Flark? Ln, Pimlico; Thomas an engineer at baptisms 1829 & 1838
: 1831 at 5 Commercial Rd, Pimlico (bpt)
: 1832 Soper occupied 31 St Georges Row, Chelsea [& /Pimlico], insured with Sun Fire Office. 24 Jul 1832 & 20 Feb 1833; ref; MS 11936/538/1141967 www.a2a; still there 1838 (bpt) : ['41/'51cen none vis in UK] : [see mid 1800's; family immigrated to Pittsburg, US]
- William Redwood Soper bpt.3 Dec 1826 & bpt.17 Jun 1829 St.Pancras. Old Church, Lon; m.Sarah Ann Pain 1844, Bloomsbury, Lon; re-m.Maria Hooper 1855, St Pancras; d.1891 Berks
- Henry White Soper bpt.25 Sep 1831 St.Pancras. Old Church; Bootmaker; m.Ellen McAuliffe Jul>Sep 1862]
- James Soper b.1834, St Pancras, Lon; pianoforte maker; m.Keziah K Hill 1866, Eton, Bucks
- John Soper b.1834, St Pancras; pianoforte maker; m.Harriett c.1861
- Edwin Soper b.Jan>Mar 1841 [b.1840 & registered late?], St Pancras : [pianoforte maker '61cen 20] : '71cen draper 29unm with brother Wm
- Ann Soper b.Jul>Sep 1841 St Pancras; an Ann m.Charles Arthur Brooker Apr>Jun 1868, Hampstead, Lon (bmd) : [assumed from1910 below]
: '41cen; William 44 boot maker at St Pancras; Sarah 44, William 14, Henry 10, James 7, John 7, Edwin 1, Ann 3m, Ann Redwood 75; scan ; [2nd household in property Ferd.Little 50porter, dau & son]
: 1843; William Soper boot & shoe maker, 31 Gower Place, Euston Sq; PO Directory google books
: '51cen; William 54 at 31 Gower Pl, St Pancras, Marylebone; b.Exeter, Dev; Sarah 54 b. Ninehead?, S.set, both boot makers; James 17; John 17, both pianoforte makers; Ann 12, Edwin 10 scholars all b.St P; [sharing property with (son) William 24 boot closer b.St P & Sarah A 30 b.Danbury, Ex]; & lodgers Mary & Harriett Dove 40 & 62 seamstress; 3rd family in house William Pike 32 house painter & wife Abigale 33
: a Sarah d.Oct>Dec 1852, St Pancras
: ?a William m.Jane Allen (or Ann Elizabeth Smith) Oct>Dec 1854, St Pancras
: 1857 ??an Ann Soper 19 & dau Elizabeth Soper 3w, discharged 14 Mar 1857 , (St Luke's) City Road Workhouse, St Pancras, Camden; discharged by committee; London Workhouse Registers scan : [only Ann vis in '51/'61cen] : [Elizabeth b.Jan>Mar 1857, St Pancras; '61cen ??an Eliz 4 b.Southampton being nursed in S'tn & b.not in bmd]
: '61cen; William 64, a boot maker at 31 Gower Place, St Pancras; b.Exeter, Dev; Jane 48, b.Brampton, Hunts, Ann 22, dress maker & Edwin 20 piano forte maker both b.St P
: '61cen; John 27 pianoforte small part maker at 21 Stanley St (1 of 3 families there), Chelsea, M.sx; b.St Pancras, M.sx; Harriett 25 shirt maker; b.Fulham, M.sx; John 1 b.Hulme, Lancs
: ?a William (c1797-1869) d.Apr>Jun, St Pancras, age 72
: '71cen; Jane 58 widow, head at 31 Gower Place, St Pancras, b.Brompton, Hunts; property headed George Croucher 58 trimming maker b.Lon & Matilda 53 b.Berks, Jane living alone a 'head' but others lodgers females 26-57 scan
: '71cen sons William boot maker 44, at Oxford Rd, Clewer, Windsor, b.St Pancras; Martha 43 boot maker, b.Trowbridge, Lon; William Henry 14 scholar, b.St Pancras; James Frederick 12 errand boy, b.Bath, S.set; Charles John 9 scholar, b.St Giles, Lon; & brother Edwin 29unm woolen draper, b.St Pancras scan
: '81cen; Jane 68 widow at 35 Rutland Rd, Lon; b.Brompton, Hunts gen dom serv with Ann Goodfellow 75 b.Stoneham, Hants; & Betsey Goodfellow 58 b.Southampton, Hants unm sisters on interest of money : [Jane not vis '91cen; d.not vis]
: '81cen Edwin Soper 39unm drapers porter; "Bloomsbury Workhouse" Endell St, Lon; b.St Pancras : [not vis '91cen]
: 1881 ?an Edwin Soper (1842-) admitted 30 Sep 1881, Gordon Road Workhouse, St Giles Parish, Camberwell, Southwark; age c36, London Workhouse Registers scan & discharged to Poplar Union 30 Sep scan
: '01cen Edwin 60unm potman, pauper inmate at St Pancras Workhouse, St Annes Home, Streatham Hill, Lon, b.St Pancras, Lon; (469 male inmates, 7 officers & 3 families) scan
: 1909? Edwin Soper (1844-) discharged from St Pancras workhouse, Camden; entered from St Annes Home; a potman, age c67, sister Mrs Brooker of 4 Upper Park Rd, New Southgate; London Workhouse Registers scan : [year may be wrong : Ann m.C Brooker 1868 assumed from this]
: Edwin Soper (c1842-1909) d.Jan>Mar 1909, age 67, St Pancras, Lon
- Harriott Soper bpt.10 Dec 1827 St Martin-in-the-Fields scan: '51cen? 23unm needle woman; m.James John Lawlor Apr>Jun 1859
- Caroline Soper bpt.25 Apr 1830 St Martin in the Fields scan;
- Emma Ann Soper b.25 May 1833; bpt.23 Jun St Paul, Covent Garden scan;
- Susanna Catherine Soper bpt.27 Jul 1835 St Martin In the Fields scan; '51cen assume a house servant 15
- George Charles Soper b.13 Mar 1838; bpt.9 Oct 1842 St Anne, Soho, Westminster scan
, [??a George b.Jul>Sep 1841 St George Hanover Sq]; m.Jane Elizabeth Leah Linden 1863; poor law officer
- Mary Ann Soper b.Jul>Sep 1849 at St George Hanover Sq or Marylebone, Lon
: 1827 George umberella maker of 4 Cartto St at bpt; 1830-5 at Hart St; 1842 Porter St
: 1834 a Henry Soper, manufacturer umberella silk 1834
: '41cen; George, b.Msx 36, umberella maker of Porter St, Soho, St Anne with Harriett 35, Harriett 13, Caroline 11, Emma 8, Susannah 6, George 3 scan (32 people in 7 families in building)
: 1842 a Harriott d.Jul>Sep 1842, Strand, Lon & a Harriott Sarah d.Jul>Sep 1843, Bethnal Green, Lon
: 1845 George 39, Emma 11, Susan 9 & George 6 of Smb? Parish, admitted St Marylebone Workhouse, St Marylebone, Westminster; 4 Feb 1845. The Board in Aug last advanced money to enable him to take his family to Birmingham where it was stated he could obtain constant employ. He did not succeed & was obliged to go inside workhouse : To be allowed to seek work under Mr James's orders scan
: 1845 Emma 'Sopere' age 11, Susan 9 & George 6, admitted St Marylebone Workhouse; 4 Feb 1845, by general board. Was discharged by board 10 Apr with father, but upon further consideration, allowed him to leave his children scan
: 1848 George m.Mary Parsons Oct>Dec 1848, Kensington, Lon; [she brought 3 children '51cen]
: '51cen George 46 head, labourer at 28 Henry St East, (St Stephens), Marylebone, M.sx; Mary 39 ironer both b.Westminster; Mary A 1 b.Marylebone; with William Parsons 19unm son-in-law porter; b.Westminster & daus-in-law Sarah 13 & Eliza 11 both scholars b.Marylebone scan
: ?'51cen Harriet 23unm needle woman at 1 Edward St, (All Saints), Islington, M.sx, b.St Martins Place, M.sx; lodging with Harriett Rofs 57 widow, lace mender b.Clerkenwell & children 10-24 all b.St James; scan : [not vis '61cen, so perhaps the Harriot m.Apr>Jun 1859, Marylebone (to either James John Lawlor or John Thornton)]
: ?'51cen Susan 15 at 3 St Martins Place, St Martin in the Fields, M.sx, b.St M.in the F; only servant with James J Richards 34 guide at St Pauls, wife Mary 33 & Jane 4m; (sharing property with a solicitor 21 & his clerk 16); scan
: '61cen; George 56 umberella frame maker b.Southwark, Mary 49 laundress b.1812 St Georges, M.sex; dau Mary Ann 11 b.Marylebone
: '61cen; a Susannah C 25, a cook b.St Marylebone in household of William P Murray, wife, mother & 4 children (1-5) with 5 servants, (2 nurses, 2 maids & a cook)
: 1869 Susannah Catherine Soper m.Jan>Mar 1869, Marylebone, Lon (bmd); to a Mr Smith, either Frederick or Joseph (bmd)
: '71cen Mary widowed laundress 69 [59], b.Hanover Sq, Msx; at 26 Frederick St, Marylebone; Mary A 21unm laundress, b.Marylebone scan
: '81cen Mary 69 widow, b.St Georges, Msx, at 26 Frederick St Lon; mother-in-law with James Durham 29 coachman; Mary A 31 both b.Marylebone; Frederick 7 b.Hampsteadd; Mary A 4; Florence 2 & Harriet 2m, all b.Marylebone; boarders Stephen Turner 22unm harness maker & John Turner 20 coachman both b.Hampstead & visiter Susan Smith 45 cook dom servant; scan
: 1882 ?a Mary Soper (c1813-1882) d.Jul>Sep 1882, Marylebone, Lon, age 69
: Brandon & Soper, 1 of 13 businesses in Spitalfields silk trade, signed a resolution.... Due to competition from the country & abroad, we are unable to agree Journeymen's demand for advance of wages. in Morning Chronical 30 Mar 1827 ; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: W Brandon & H Soper silk manufacturers, 23 Spital Sq, Spitalfields, 5 Oct 1827. The partnership existing between William Brandon & Henry Soper, silk manufacturers, of Spital Sq, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. (London Gazette 12 Oct) London Gazette [Notice repeated 16 Oct with Spitalfields replaced by ‘Liberty of Norton-Falgate’ (a short part of A10 connecting Bishopsgate & Shoreditch)]
: Henry Soper, silk manufacturer, 16 Fort St, Spital Fields, insurance contracts with Sun Fire Office, 29 Nov 1827 & 14 May 1828 : Guildhall Library MS 11936/512 www.a2a : [see Henry below]
- Henry Soper of Liberty Old Artillery Gd m.Sarah Coles of St Matt, Beth Gn, 1828 at Christchurch, Spittlefield; Henry b.c1802 to ?
- Children bpt Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney; [from igi & pmi]
- Henry Coles Soper (1830-1908) bpt 22 Sep Spitlefields; m.Clara Dommett, 1866 : a silk mfr : d.Lewisham, Kt, age 77
- Sarah Britannia Soper (1832-1838) b.4 May 1832 Spittlefields [d.Oct>Dec 1838 Whitechapel, Lon]
- William Lawrence Soper b.28 Mar 1834, bapt 5 Aug Spittlefields: m?.1880 Islington '81cen : '01 widowed retired silk mfr b.Norton Folgate)
- Emily Harriet Soper b.12 Oct 1836 Spittlefields; m.Francis Fox of Maldon, 3 Mar 1886, Little Waltham
- Britannia Sarah Soper b.13 Sep 1839 Spittlefields [11 boarding school, Greenwich; unm with bros Hy'81 & Wm '91-'11cen b.Norton Folgate, Lon] : d.28 Oct 1918 both West Ham, Ex age 79 (left £10k)
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Born c1802 Bethnal Green [not in igi]
: [??speculate connection perhaps to Ambrose Soper b.1774 (lived Quaker St, Spitalfields)]
: 1826 H Soper & W Brandon, silk weavers, 23 Spital Sq
: 1826 contributed £5 to fund paying unemployed Spitalfield weavers (The fund paid £1,700 to Spitalfields Soup Society)
: 1827 (advert)
: 1827 Brandon & Soper, 1 of 13 Spitalfields silk traders, refused journeymen's demand for wage advance, due to foreign competition
: 1827 silk business at 23 Spital Sq partnership with William Brandon [listed 1st] disolved
: 1827 at 16 Fort St, Spital Fields
: 1828 Henry of Liberty Old Artillery Gd m.Sarah Coles of St Matt, Beth Gn, at Christchurch, Spittlefields
: 1828-30 Henry/Sarah had 2 sons b.Limehouse (Liberty Old Artillery Gd) [so assume Fort St?]
: 1828-39; Henry/Sarah had 3 more kids b.Norton Folgate Liberty, Tower Hamlets [so assume had moved to Spital Sq]
: 1829 insured, 6 Fort St, Spitalfield
: 1831 H Soper silk mfr of 16 Fort St; his employee absonded with 70yds black satin, entrusted with him to weave, 27 Aug 1831; Thomas Reeves 30, 5' 4", sallow complexion, very thin, dark hair, rather red whiskers, dressed i n shabby black; Police Gazette [thin stunted, poor employee]
: 1831 Henry Coles Soper nr.375 Honourable Artillery Company, attested 19 Apr 1831; home 32 Spital Sq; age 18; 5ft 6½in; proposed by Thomas Hall & Thomas England; attached to Light Infantry; died Apr'88; Hon Artillery Co admission registers scan & scan [so why use 'Coles' : & he d.1867]
: 1832 Henry 16 Fort St, Old Artillery Ground, Tower Hamlets; house qualified him for Electoral List; 1832 scan; 1833 to 1873 house at 32 Spital Sq, Norton Folgate, Tower Hamlets; Electoral List; scan - scan [1843-4 '32 Spital Sq, house & factory'] : a Henry also at 12 Spital Sq 1862-68 & at 82 Spital Sq 1867. In this time vote though owning freehold house at 122 Brick Ln, St Matthew, Bethnal Grn; other addresses 8 Oat Ln, Wood St 1874-87; 20 White Lion St 1876; Trafford Bank, 4 The Glebe 1890-1908 (?called Henry Coles Trafford Soper 4 times 1895-1905)
: 1832 another outworker weaver embezzled 70yds silk
: 1832 & 32 Spital Sq 33 property insured
: 1833-73 a Henry's house at 32 Spital Sq, Norton Folgate, Tower Hamlets; Electoral List; scan - scan [1843-4 '32 Spital Sq, house & factory'] : 1853-72 vote was though owning freehold house at 122 Brick Ln, St Matthew, Bethnal Green (at nr.31 Henry Stokes Soper on election list 1858-3)
: 1834 (his cook stole wife's clothes) : 1834 theft of silk
: 1835 thread theft
: 1836 contributed 2 guineas to Christ Church, Spitalfields which had £5,000 fire damage
: 1836 'Messrs Soper' 32 Spital Sq
: 1836 assaulted by mob after helping police arrest a man
: 1836-1851 ballon flights
: 1837 subscribed to 'Distress at Spitalfields Soup Society', (5,000 quarts a day), scan
: 1838 supplied £200 of silk to make Albion ballon (100 still owed 1840)
: 1839 Indian silk
: 1840 manufacturer helped start a school of design for silk makers
: 1841 on committee to make specimen of silk weaving for her Majesty; scan
: 1841 Henry, paid a quinea to The Spitalfield Soup Society arising from weather & manufacturing unemployment. (When last opened Jan-Apr 1838, distributed 263,000 quarts of soup [at 1d quart]) 'Morning Post' 16 Jan 1841 scan
: 1841 flew in 280th assent of the Nassau balloon from Vauxhall
: 1841 flew in Nassau balloon Vauxhall to Greenwich
: 1843 on Commission of silk mfrs to discuss duty fraud on imported silk; scan
: 1845 silk manufacturers' meeting agreed standard silk measurement : scan
: 1846 of Little Watham, fatal chaise accident at Chelmsford
: 1846 made silk for balloon who's 1st 40m flight landed 1m from his country house farm at Waltham
: 1847 silk meeting on standard silk measurement (36") : scan
: 1850 inquest witnessed after 8am fatal rail accident between Colchester & London
: 1850 chaise accident going to his Waltham country house
: 1850 represents silk mfrs & Tower Hamlets in Great Exhibition meetings, Palace of Westminster
: 1850 meets Prince Albert
: 1850 exhibited silk at 1851 Great Exhibition
: 1852 silk trade committee
: 1852 perhaps the Mr Soper who elequently addressed meeting to preserve Crystal Palace at City Rd : scan
: 1852 listed in electorial list as Henry Soilleux Soper at 32 Spital Sq scan [but just 1 year, so mistake?]
: 1852 price list read to meeting of 1,000 Spitalfield Weavers; Umberella/Parasol Branch; some rates reduced (an av weaver did 14h pd for 12s pw)
: 1852 struck out as voter for Little Waltham after liberal objection; scan
: 1853 bought 12 acres of fields in Little Waltham, Ex for £680
: 1853 a director of S E Gas Light & Coke Co, 38 Moorgate St; scan
: 1853 bought 3 fields at auction; 12 acres at Little Watham, Ex, for £680
: 1854 contributed [through Mr Mayers] to appeal for famished Holy Land Jews; scan
: 1854 Soper, mentioned at large meeting of Spitalfields silk velvet weavers, (a business in decline last 20 or 30 years). was 1 of 18 other manufacturers 'their friends' willing to agree a 3d a yard advance on wages & 7 firms combined against the demand. The weavers had previously adopted a uniform list of prices; 'Reynolds's Newspaper' 13 Aug 1854 news.bl.uk; scan
: 1854 a Spitalfield silk businesses at meeting resolved to accept invitation to Paris Universal Exhibition 1855; scan
: 1855 silk manufacturer's medal Paris Exhibition
: 1854 Hon Sec of Eastern Counties Railway, Bishopsgate St. (track Stratford to Loughton); auditor re-elected 1857, 61 & 62
: 1855 : Henry Soper 1 of 5 directors of ECR said it had been recklessly administered, Bad contracts meant it carried coal at a loss & illigal loans taken & reckless expenditure kept up; scan
: 1856 1 of 117 signatures on testimonial to Hery Adolphus Bale chief station master to terminal of Eastern Counties Railways; scan
: 1856 Mr Soper, present by invitation at Eastern Counties Railway Co meeting at London Tavern; 'Essex Standard' 1 Feb; scan
: 1857 Mr Soper of Spital Sq employed Joseph Dent, weaver of Green St. Jsephps widowed mother 70 applying to Bethnal Green workhouse scan
: 1858 wholesale silk mfr 'accuses weavers as an improvident class of men'; said at weaver workers' meeting where low pay & no work discussed
Norton Folgate
: 1860 Henry excavated Roman funeral urns found by workmen digging drains at Little Watham Lodge, junction of Dunmow & Braintree Rd with Chelmsford Rd; scan
: 1860 Henry 1 of 8 trustees of almshouses erected for Norton Folgate poor; Plot on E side of Commercial Rd, & N side of Red Lion Court, purchased 1851 by Henry & trustees for £1500 source
: 1860 Soper & Soper of 31 Spital Sq owed £203, by bankrupt woollen warehouseman 'Beater, Dennant & Russ', see 1860
: 1860 Mr Soaper 1 Spital Sq employed John Stephenson 54 a broad weaver; his wife applying to Bethnal Green workhouse 3 Sep 1860 scan
: 1860 Messrs Soper & Co, their commercial traveller James Graham 48, committed suicide, very melancholy having lost his pocket book; Resident at Fore St (a hostel? as another inmate found him, from bedstead rail); in 'Leeds Mercury'; scan
: '61cen Henry C 30 a silk manufaturer (about 350 hands employed), head, b.Old Artillery Ground, M.sex, brother William L Soper silk manufacturer & b.Norton Folgate, M.sex, both unm also servant Martha Attwood 33, housekeeper, b.Canterbury, Kt & her son Arthur W Attwood 6, b.Sevenoaks, Kt
: 1861 H Soper on committee of E.London Weavers Aid Ass to relieve unemployment distress May £3,000 spent in winter & £2,000 Brick Ln Soup Kitchen; scan
: 1861 auditors of Eastern Counties Railways, highlighted irregularity in their accounts; Accounts not passed
: 1861 appointed inspector of a bankrupt warehouse company 'Coster Beater, Dennant & Russ'; scan & assisignee in bankruptcy of 'Alderbury & Fountaincourt'; scan
: son Henry Coles Soper on electorial list for 31 or 32 Spital Sq 1861-73
: 1862 1 if 4 directors of 'Gefle Gas Co Ltd' (30y licence, Gefle, Stockholm
: 1866 Soper & Sons controlled Welch Hill, Leigh, Lancs; with the decline in silk trade it stood idle for a time until Gamble & Smith installed cotton looms (Mill at one time had 1,800 weavers at mill or in their home) source
: 1867 H Soper esq of Spital Sq, Lon & Little Waltham Lodge nr Chelmsford, Ex d.17 [Feb??] 1867, age 66, 'Essex Standard' (pub Colchester 21 Dec 1867), from newspapers.bl.uk; Henry death registered Jan>Mar 1868, age 66 (or 65) at Whitechapel bmd dist : ? a Sarah Ann (c1803-1879) d.Jul>Sep, age 76 Chelmsford, Ex bmd dist
: 1868 Henry d.17 Feb 1868, silk merchant of Little Waltham, Essex; will Principle Registry 4 Apr 1868 to Henry Coles Soper of Spital Sq, silk merchant, William Lawrence Soper of Spital Sq, silk merchant, sons, 2 of the executors; estate under £25,000 & of Spital Sq, M.sx; from Probate Calender, scan
: 1868 his death left Auditor vacancy at Great Eastern Railway Co, applications before meeting City Terminal Hotel, Cannon St : scan
: 1868 Henry Soper's lamentable death means vacancy for auditor for Independent Gas Light & Coke Co : scan
: 1868 Henry, of London, shareholder of the Great Western Railway, probate book
William Lawrence Soper a shareholder of the Great Western Railway. Named in the 'Probate Book' 1868, 1874 & 1908. (1908 in Essex). [90% entrys involve a death, 5% marriage, so inheited? from father 1868]
: 1868 Soper & Sons's silk mfs of Spitalfields; Arnott & Co [of Glasgow] puchased a considerable portion of their stock : scan
: 1868 H Soper & son, Leigh : Wanted advert a good steam engine with latest improvements 20 or 22 horses' power: from Guardian Newspaper, 30 Dec [another advert 1880]
: 1869 Soper's best makes of silk & rich moire antiques, Material advertised by William Robertspon, in York; : scan
: 1870 H Soper manufactured the best Italian silk at 18s per yard, for the £2,100 'Nassau' balloon restored during winter by Mr Coxwell who purchased it last July. Built for Mr Green (who d.age 85 2 weeks ago] who used it on a remarkable trip to Germany; scan
: 1870 H Soper & Son's agents Mr Dean not received a reply from his employer on weavers deputation for 1d per yard wage increase. He was abroad. The award given, but the cost of living said to increase by 25% in 18m. T weavers' lot became worse, by 1877 trade was almost at a standstill & most mills were shut. leighlife.com
: 1871 Henry Soper & Sons, Welsh Hill Mills; 1 of 6 Leigh silk manufacturers in Warrels Directory; ('71cen Leigh pop.17,621 inc Bedford & Pennington; 10%inc on '61cen; with railway & canal links, 12m.W of Manchester) : [1st spinning jenny, Leigh 1763] source
: 1872 Henry, Sara A & HCS shareholder, Great Western Railway
: 1872-80 H Soper & Co's, celebrated Spittalfield silks dresses sold in NZ
: 1879 Sarah A Soper d.31 Aug 1879, at Little Waltham Lodge, age 76, widow of Henry Soper of Spital Sq, London & Little Waltham Lodge, Ex, 'Pall Mall Gazette' (pub.Lon) 2 Sep from newspapers.bl.uk
- Family notes below;
- '41cen - Henry 35-9 (born ?) silkmaker at 32 Spittle Sq, Tower Hamlets, Norton Folgate Liberty (& male servant 25) : presume sons Henry 11 & William 7 with 13 pupils with Henry Rolfe 35 schoolmaster, Bethanal Grn Rd, Lon :
- '41cen - wife Sarah 35-9 ind, at Milton Gravesend, Kent; Emily 5; Britania 2; 'fs'* Barbara Morphet 15 servant; Elizabeth Bethet 8; Jonna Nichols 18 none b.Kent : scan [*fs listed before Soper, so perhaps not her servant] : [was Spittlesfield too unhealthy, for babies, following dau's death 3y earlier?]
- '41cen - presume brother Thomas 37 a silkmaker with Susannah & 5 children, Quaker St, Christ Church, Spitalfields, see
- 1844 Henry Coles Soper won prize for the best design for a parasol border; Spitalfield weavers school?, 238 pupils; Sydney Herald 7 Nov
- '51cen Henry 49 silk manufacturer, employing 100 at 32 Spital Sq, Norton Folgate, St Marys, M.sx; b.Berthnal Green, M.sx; Sarah Ann 48 b.St Ann, Limehouse; Henry Coles Soper 20 ass to silk manufacturer b.St Ann, Limehouse, Artillery O.R?; William L 17 merchants clerk; Emily Haret 15 scholar at home; both b.Norton Folgate; scan & scan2 [sister Britannia S 11 at boarding school, 20 Crooms Hill, Greenwich Kent scan]
- '61cen - Henry 59 silk mfr (80 London employees), Sarah A 58 both b.Bethnal Gn; unm dau Emily H 25 & Brittannead Soper 21 both b.Norton Folgate, M.sex
- '61cen - Henry C 30 a silk mfr (empl 350 hands), head, b.Old Artillery Ground, M.sex, brother William L a silk manufacturer b.Norton Folgate, M.sex, both unm
- '71cen - son - Henry Coles Soper (empl 1,060* in Lon & Lancs) at Lee, Kent 40, b.Old Artillery Ground, Lon; wife Clara C 25; Clara E 3 & Henry W D 2 both b.Lee; also wife's sister Annie U Drommett 20unm scan : [*assume meaning he'd access to many self employed pieceworkers?]
- '71cen - Sarah Ann Soper (c1803-?) a widowed land owner 68, at Little Waltham Lodge, Little Waltham; son William Laurence Soper 37 silk manufacturer, dau Sarah Brittania Soper 30, all b.M.sex; also housemaid Hannah Burton 22 & cook Eliza Hazell 26 : also in Lodge, gardener Charles Brown 42, wife & 3 sons scan : [early-mid C19 gault brick house, stucco rusticated quions & parapet with bracketted stucco cornice. 2 storeys source]
- Sarah Ann Soper d.31 Aug 1879, widow of Little Waltham Lodge, Little Waltham, Essex; administration Principle Registry 14 Oct 1879 to Henry Coles Soper of 8 Oat Lane, City of London, silk manufacturer, son & next of kin; estate under £3,000; from Probate Calender, scan : [Sarah Ann Soper d.Jul>Sep.1879 Chelmsford, Essex, age 76]
- 1880 - Common Law Courts 5 shillings seal respecting Emily Harriott Fox, wife of Francis Fox. Interested parties; Henry Coles Soper, William Lawrence Soper, Britannia Sarah Soper, Frederick Sheffield & wife Mary Geraldine, & Alfred Henry Clapham; Sworn Lon; & Charles William Dommett's oath regarding her property auctioned 2013
- '81cen - Henry C B 50 silk manufacturer, at Little Waltham, Lee : son Arthur Watson Soper 4 ['Walrond' not Watson] & Britania S 41, unm sister b.London
- '81cen - wife Clara C, a visitor 34 b.Crewkerne, Chard, Somerset (nurse) in household of Arthur V Kyrke 26 a solicitor at Chard b.Wales (perhaps sister of his wife Annie b.Chard?)
- '81cen - grdau Clara E at a Lee school 13 b.Lee (Clara Emily m.Richard Thorp, of Putney 2 Mar 1897, at Lee, Kent, only dau of Henry Coles Soper of Trafford Bank, Blackheath) : [?a Henry Coles Soper (c1831-1908) d.Jan>Mar 1908, Lewisham, Kent, age 77?]
- '81cen - perhaps brother in Walthamstow --- William L Soper 47 a silk manufacturer b.N.Folgate,M.sex, wife Marian 34 b.Camberwell,Surrey] : [??a William gent sailed Liverpool to NY 1890 (this Wm the only gent)]
- '91cen - William L 57 at Walthamstow & sister Britannia S 51, both b.Norton Folgate, Lon
- '01cen - children - William 67 retired silk manufacturer & sister Brittania S 61 (own means) at Walthamstow both b.Norton Folgate
- '11cen - William Lawrence, widower 77 retired silk manufacturer at 1 Church Ln, Walthamstow, West Ham, Ex; sister Britannia Sarah 71 both b.Norton Folgate, Lon; cook Henrietta Norris 63 b.Walthamstow & housemaid Sarah Alice Mumford 42 b.Heyford, Ox
- The Walnuts, Church Ln (N side), Walthamstow an 18thC brick cottage built 1836, by churchyard William Soper lived quietly at this house for a good many years. At his death Miss Soper continued to reside here until about 1918 source
: William L Soper (c1834-1912) d.Apr>Jun 1912, age 78, West Ham, Ex
- 1919 dau Britannia Sarah Soper d.28 Oct 1918, spinster of The Walnuts, Walthamstow, Ex; probate London 15 Jan 1919 to Henry William Dommett Soper, chartered accountant, Clara Emily Thorp, widow [nephew & niece through Henry Coles Soper]; estate £10,537 16s 9d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Britannia S d.Oct>Dec 1918 both West Ham, age 79]
Mary Soper, her mother, of Ormond Yard, St James ; witnessed against George Carrotts, for a misdemeanour 1827; source : [?a Mary Ann b.23 Dec 1815 All Saints, Wandsworth to William & Henry : a Mary Ann m.Thomas Huntington at St Nicholas, Deptford 12 Jun 1836]
: Mary Ann Soper of Ormond Yard, St James; Mary Soper, her mother; Joshua Brookes surgeon; Thomas Clements, constable; against George Carrotts, for a misdemeanour 25 Apr 1827: Great Marlborough Street Police Office; July General Quarter Sessions; Examinations; National Archives
- Colonist took 200 emigrants Liverpool to Quebec Jul 1850 & 1817 http://www.vc.id.au/edg/18170524rg.html
- Sally sloop insured from Providence to North Carolina 1818 : immigrant ship 1800 immigrantships.net
- Tula 74 circumnavigation exploring the Southern Oceans & Antarctic coast for seals & wales 1830 source
- Harriott schooner 1805 Barbados (a slave ship?) www.vc.id.au
- Ruckers merchant ship gale bound Falmouth to Maderia c1831? : 1806 a Grenada Judge captured on the Ruckers, taken to Guadeloupe source : &
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: James Soper, in an Old Bailey jury, 23 Oct 1828 : oldbaileyonline [perhaps the professional in the 1827 Old Bailey case or the jurer in 1822]
: James (c1793-?) sentenced to 3 months confinement at Old Bailey by jury, 13 Sep 1827 : He was drinking in Sunderland Arms, Sackville St, Picadilly with James Hollis, bookseller of Maiden Ln, Battlebridge, who left 60 books & elegantly bound prayer books & bibles worth £9 with the barmaid & he'd collect the next day. But Soper collected the books an hour later & left them at 'The Man in the Moon' for collection next day. Uncollected after 3 weeks, they were given to Hollis. Soper was a book dealer, tall, with a full face, aged 34 oldbaileyonline
: James Soper (c1793 - ) age 34, sentenced to 3m imprisonment for larceny at Old Bailey, Sep 1827 scan
: James found guilty of stealing prayerbooks worth over £5, the property of a peddler, Old Bailey, 17 Sept 1827 : from The Times 18 Sept : 23/746p
: James capitally indited, at Old Bailey before Justice Gazeler 17 Sep 1827. Defence said it was fraud, not a felony, but judge over-ruled. 2 witnesses of good character. It was a capital offence to steal £5 property from a dwelling house & this was £9; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 18 Sep) from newspapers.bl.uk : [so death sentence? if so probably transported, (not vis in Oz)] : [2 James b.1792-4 b.1874 Sherfield U L, Hants & b.1794 Toller Porcorum, Dorset]
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James Soper, in management committee of Thames Excursion in aid of Hospital for Sick Seamen, Ticket [doubled since last year] £1men 10s ladies, 9:30am from Tower stopping Greenwich & Blackwall & going as far as possible, on 'Venus' steam packet of Margate (supplied free) ; in 'Morning Post' 23 Jun 1828, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : also James, contributed a guinea at 8th AGM 26 Feb for Hospital Ship 'Grumpus', off Greenwich for sick seamen; £1,200 collected; in 'Morning Post' 13 Mar 1829, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan [Grumpus once a 50 gun warship, now overcrowded old mastless hulk, replaced with a larger vessel 1831]
: still on management committee 29, 30 & 31 for annual excursion on 'Venus', to see the warships at Sheerness. To ensure respectable company, tickets only available from the Committee; 'Morning Post' 8 Jul 1831, & & &
- Frances Soper b.1825; bpt.23 Apr 1826; ??assume m.Alfred Seager Oct>Dec 1845 London West
- Mary Ann Soper b.1827 to Aust 1853?)
- other bapts.; Jane 17 Sep 1828, Elizabeth 17 Feb 1839, Mary Ann 10 Jun 1832,
- William Soper bpt.15 Jan 1832; ??assume engine maker, m.Frances Elizth ?, c1871
- John Soper b.1834; assume m.Frances Cooper 22 Feb 1828
- Thomas Soper bpt.30 Aug 1835; unm house painter, achieved 1,930 workhouse admissions & discharges 1872 to d.1909
- Samuel Soper b.1839 b.Pimlico ?b.Jul>Sep 1839, St George Hanover Sq, Lon; engineer/gas fitter; m.Emma Terry 1859
: '41cen [assumed from '81cen]; John engineer 40-4 engineer, Frances 40-4 (both b.outside London), Frances 16, Mary Ann 14, William 9, John 7, Thomas 5, Samuel 2 at Upper Ebury St (south side),St George, Hanover Sq, Westminster, all children b.Lon; scan : [none obvious '51/'61cen]
: 1844 John Soper 26 Newland St, St George Hanover Sq, Westminster; his house qualified him for Electoral List; 1844-7 scan scan
: 1849 John Soper (?-1849) engineer of 26 Newland St, Pimlico. Will 7 Dec 1849 ref: Available online, nationalarchives.gov.uk prob 11/2105
: 1849 John Soper d.Oct>Dec 1849, St George Hanover Sq, Lon
: 1864 ??a Frances Soper d.Oct>Dec 1864, St George Hanover Sq, Lon : [but no link '61cen]
: Margaret Soper d.15 Apr 1833 after a lingering illness, wife of John Soper of Warren's Lodge, Edmonton : [he remarried 1834] : The Times 16 Apr 16/211p
[could this be John, m Margaret Woods, St Luke, Old St, Finsbury, 1820?]
: John Soper esq of Warren Lodge, Edmonton m.Miss Charlotte Thompson of Hackney 25 Jun 1834 at St John's Hackney & in 'Jacksons Oxford Journal' 28 Jun 1834, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [his wife died 1833] : The Times 26 Jun 17/211p [a John Soper at Oxford University]
PC Thomas Soper an Officer, arrested a baker going home at 4:45am at Kilburn. He had 3 loaves & 6lbs of flour worth a shilling, a widower with 4 children, found guilty but fined only 1s : Old Bailey, 27 May 1830 : oldbaileyonline
Police Officer Soper took a picklock-key from an intruder James Butler 6 Dec 1830 at, 53 High St, Portland Town, he also had a crowbar. At the Regents Park watch-house, Butler’s only possession was a bloody handkerchief, (a PC said Butler was bleeding very severely when arrested). Death sentence for theft source
PC Thomas Soper, possibly of Marylebone Office, matched a butchered sheepskin found by a field of sheep in Finchley, with mutton being carried by James Thompson down the North Rd, Hampstead, at 1am. Thompson sentenced to death. 20 Oct 1831 : oldbaileyonline
PC Thomas Soper, "On Wednesday, 19 Oct, I went to the prisoner's lodgings in search of some wet linen; I found this cheese in the cupboard - he said he had bought & paid for it, but would not tell me where. I heard that the prosecutor had lost one". The part of a cheese was worth 10s, John Gray, age 23, transportation 7 years : from Old Bailey 1 Dec 1831
Thomas Soper, (PC nr S20). "I took the prisoner in East St, Manchester Sq - the prosecutor was with me, she said, Pray, Mr Gibson, forgive me - write to my father & it shall be all right" A maid found not guilty of pawning silverware. Mrs Gibson had asked her to pawn stuff before, but not this time.: from Old Bailey 5 Jul 1832#
PC Thomas Soper S20, at an Old Bailey trial, 29 Nov 1834. He went to Islington, to investigate a lost trunk of silverware, which had been taken by cab drivers after they delivered a family to Regents Park, the trunk was handed in the next day as lost property, so Not Guilty : oldbaileyonline
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: John Soper, a bookbinder & his wife, Margaret Soper gave evidence for a man accused of getting a girl pregnant (Aldersgate Workhouse). They said it was blackmail. Everyone in the case apparently 'badly off' with alcohol : from The Times 10 Dec 1829 : 28/746p :
: John Soper, bookbinder, said he was threatened by Gatehouse if he gave evidence; Justice Parke - 'you must speak the truth'. Soper 'I knew Gatehouse for 4m ext.Judge 'There's nothing in Soper's evidence' : Martha Soper, John's wife 'Gurney said I'll say to Adams give me £5 or I'll expose you to your wife; You ruined my daughter'. Council said Mrs Soper was utterly increadable. Adams was a decent man of 70: Case involved Gatehouse & dau (21) tenants of Adams all tailors at Duke St, Smithfield. He claimed loss of of his dau's income when Arnold got her pregnant; £20 damages awarded (reduced as dau visited pubs, so not virtuous); in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 10 Dec) 1829, from newspapers.bl.uk
: [connection? a Margaret d.1833 after a lingering illness, husband John of Warren's Lodge, Edmonton remarried 1834] : [3? John/Margaret's : m.1810 Enfield, m.1820 Finsbury & having kids 1835 Holborn]
: 1834 ?a John Soper the master of James Webster, who stole, 26 Sep, a £1 block & a 2s book from him. An Old Bailey trial, 16 Oct 1834. Verdict Guilty, 3m imprisonment : oldbaileyonline : [?his books stolen 1836]
: 1834 ?a John Soper & Francis Knibb, under the firm of Soper & Knibb, bookbinders of Warwick Sq, City partnership dissolved by mutual consent. All debts, due to & owing will be received & paid by John Soper : 27 May 1834, (London Gazette 30 May) : & J Soper & K Knibb bookbinders of Warwick Sq, partnership disolved, 'Morning Post' 31 May
: James Soaper [re forgery above] the only one of 19 witnesses (bankers/merchants) who's profession not given : pub 1821 : Google Books
: James Soper & Forster Thomas Furiy, dec[eased] both merchants of St Helen's Place, Apr 1827; solicitor Weiditman, Red Lion Sq, Holbom : entry in 'Unclaimed Dividends Books of the Bank of England'; source
: James Soaper of St Helen's Place : Google Books [Soaper seeking removal of death penalty for petty forgery in 1822 debate] : [James Soper a letting agent at same address 1821]
- Ann b.c1832 b.Sussex; '41cen 9; '51cen not vis
- Henry 'Soaper' bpt.13 Jul 1834 East Grinstead; '51cen not vis; ?m.Elizabeth Daily 1860; '71cen master dyer; '81cen publisher 46 Elizabeth
- Elizabeth bpt.15 Jan 1837 E.Grinstead: (Elizabeth R in '51cen) : '71cen 34unm dress maker, with sister; ??m.George Muller? see '81cen (but not vis bmd)
- Barbara Soaper bpt.7 Jul 1839 E.Grinstead ['Soaper' not Soper]; m.James H Cox Oct>Dec 1864, Wandsworth, Lon; [see '71cen below]
- John bpt.10 Oct 1842 E.Grinstead; m.Jane Elizabeth Ward 1867; '01cen enameller biog; d.1927
- James Roberts Soaper bpt.25 Jul 1847 E.Grinstead; b.Apr>Jun 1847 & d.Jan>Mar 1848 E.G
- William bpt.28 Jul 1850 EG (b.Apr>Jun 1850 EG) : '71cen lithography artist 20; m.Wilhemina bef.1879; William Soper & Son enamellers biog d.1913, Clapham
: '41cen Trayton Soper 35-9 shoe maker at The Rooks, East Grinstead, Sx, with Ann 35-9, Ann 9, Henry 7, Elizabeth 4, Barbara 2, all bar wife b.Sussex; scan
: '51cen Trayton J Soper 46 cordwainer at The Rocks, E.Grinstead; b.Heathfield Sx; Ann C 46 b.Tonbridge, Kt; Elizabeth R 14 at home; Barbara 11, John 9 both at home (at school added); William 11m all b.E.Grinstead, Sx; scan : [of 25 families 'on the rocks', 5 were cordwainers/shoe makers source] : [Henry vis 1851]
: '61cen Trayton J Soper 56, widower*, shoe maker at Terminus Rd, Brighton, Sx; Elizabeth 24 dress maker b.East Grinstead, William 11 scholar : [*but seems no widow??]
: '61cen Henry 29 master dyer, employing 3, at 9 St James Place St Pancras; b.East Grinstead, Wilts; Elizabeth 36 b.Whitechapel, Lon (1 other household in property)
: '61cen John 19unm cheesemonger; sister Barbara 21unm both b.E Grinstead; mother Ann C 56 b.Tonbridge, Kt; cousin Frederic Soper 22unm mechanical dentist b.Brighton, Sx
: '71cen Trayton T 67 boot master at 4 Terminus St, Brighton; b.Heathfield, Ann C 65 b.Tonbridge, Kt, (sharing address with family of Thomas Medhurst 32 railway carter)
: '71cen Elizabeth Soper (c1837-?) 34unm dressmaker at 1 Chestnut Grove, Streatham, Sy/Lon; b.E.Grinstead, Sx; sister-in-law with James H Cox collector of the press b.Lambeth, Barbara Cox 31 b.E.Grinstead, Sx, James 5 scholar b.Clapham, Sy & boarderer Henry Fielder (f) 53unm b.Leominster, Sx & lodger Louisa Whiteman 55unm b.Lewes, Sx both annuitants scan
: '71cen Henry 37 master dyer (empl 2 men), b.East Grinstead, Sx; at 80 Hampstead Rd, Pancras; Elizabeth 48, b.Whitechapel, M.sex; & brother William 20 artist in lithography, b.E.Grinstead; (2nd household in property Ann Ludlow 78 widowed annuitant b.Devonport & Elizabeth Ludlow 39 dressmaker b.Saltash, Con) scan
: 1876 Ann Coates Soper (c1805-1876) 71 d.Apr>Jun Marylebone, Lon
: '81cen Trayton J 76 widower b.Grinsted, Sx, visitor at 28 South Molton St, Westminster with George Muller 55 costume maker b.Germany (British Subject) & wife Elizabeth Muller* 44 dress maker b.Grinstead, Sx; scan : [*assume dau?, but m.not vis bmd]
: '81cen Henry 46 publisher at 643 Wandsworth Rd south side, Clapham; b.E.Grinstead; Elizabeth 57 b.Whitechapel, M.sx : [not vis '91cen d.not vis Wandsworth reg dist]
: 1882 Trayton Thomas Soper death registered Jan>Mar 1882 Wandsworth, Surrey district (which included Clapham) [bmd]
- Thomas Soper b.c1831 [mother Ann, from 1840 exam]
- Ann Soper b.c1833 [mother Ann, from 1840 exam]
- Elizabeth Soper b.c1834, '41cen silk weaver 16 [mother Susannah]
- Mary Soper b.c1835, '41cen silk weaver 14
- Sarah Soper b.c1839
- Eliza Soper b.Apr>Jun 1841 Spitalfields; [Whitechapel bmd dist] : '61cen 20 silk weaver
- Emma Soper b.Oct>Dec 1845 Spitalfields; [Whitechapel] : '61cen 15 envelope folder
- Leweyen Soper b.c1846
- Emma Soper b.Oct>Dec 1850 Spitalfields; [Whitechapel] : '61cen 15 envelope folder
- Louisa Soper b.Jan>Mar 1851 Spitalfields; [Whitechapel] : '71cen 20 envelope folder
: 1817 Thomas apprenticed 15 Jul 1817 to John Mandy, weaver of 19 Chub Row, served 7y [from below]
: 1840 Thomas 35 of 22 Grey Eagle St, an ill weaver, Susannah 34; m.27 Jan 1834 Christ Church, M.sx, 3 children by him, Elizabeth 5, Mary 3 & Sarah 12m; He m.Ann Lane 25 Jan 1830 St Botolph, Aldgate, his late wife d.7y & had by her Thomas 9 & Ann 7. Thomas aprenticed by ind[enture?] 15 Jul 1817 to John Mandy, weaver of 19 Chub Row, served his master full term & never gained subsequent settlement [entitlement]. All 7 chargeable. Susannah's Poor law examination, Bethnal Green 16 Mar 1840 scan Family paupers of Grey Eagle St; Orders of Removal notice received from Christ Church, M.sx; Bethnal Green, 14 Jun 1830 scan
: [brother??; Henry (1802-1867) Spitalfield silkmaker] : [a Buckmaster reference 1834]
: '41cen; Thomas 37 silk weaver, Quaker St, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Susannah 36, Ann 16, Elizabeth 7, Mary 6, Sarah 2, Eliza 3m & Susannah Buckmaster? 17, Thomas Buckmaster 11, all b.M.sx
: '41cen connection? a Henry 35-9 silk maker of 32 Spittle Sq, Tower Hamlets
: 1843 ??an Ann Soper poor person & lunatic, chargeable to St Leonard, Shoreditch, 9 Feb 1843; Police Magistrate directs St Leonard to convey her to County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell. He directs St Brides, Fleet St, Lon, her last settlement to pay conveying charges from St Leonards to the asylem & pay 14s pw scan : [no age given]
: 1846 ??a Thomas Sopers (c1804-) age 42 , admitted to St Marylebone Workhouse, Westminster; 23 Oct 1846, H H Infirmary; destitute; to remain for the present scan : [perhaps unlikely at a workhouse hospital if a householder]
: '51cen; Thomas 42 at 22 Grey Eagle St, Christ Church, Tower Hamlets, b.Bethnal Green; Susanah 45 b.Spitalfields both cane spreaders; Elizabeth 16; Mary 14 both silk weaver; Sarah 12; Eliza 10; Leweyen 5 all scholars & Emma 1 all b.B Gn also lodger Howe? Buckmaster 20, labourer b.B Gn; 2nd family of 6 in property scan
: 1853 Thomas at 21 & 22 Grey Eagle St, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets; houses at adress qualified him for 1851-2 Electoral List; scan & just at nr 22 by 1853 to 1862
: '61cen; Thomas 56 at 22 Grey Eagle St, Spitalfields; b.Bethnal Green, Susanah 55 & daus Eliza 20unm, all 3 silk weavers; Emma 15 envelope folder; Louisa 10 scholar all b.Spitalfields : [??only Thomas d.vis '61-'71 d.Oct>Dec 1861, St James, Lon]
? dau? Ann Soper (c1825- ) '61cen house servant to silk weaver Daniel Mahoney 55 b,Ireland & wife Elizabeth 44 b.Spitalfields, (still with them '91cen)
: 1861 Ann Soper (c1831- ) 30unm, 68 Searle St Blg, 2y & at Nelson St, Friars Mount, charwoman 10y, father weaver lived at 22 Grey Eagle St, Spittalfield for 15y, paid abt 4/6 a week, been dead abt 2y, always understood he belonged to Spitafields scan : [no date on document, 1861 from transcript {so wrong?>} as 20 above & father alive]
: '71cen; Susan needlewoman 66 at 60 Quaker St, Christchurch, Spitalfields; Louisa 20 envelope folder, both b.Spitalfields, (2nd household there of Samuel Roberts 65 greengrocer b.Liverpool, wife & 3 children; scan
: '81cen; Susan 75 head widow, 6 Corbets Ct, Lon; b.Spitalfields
: ?a Susan (c1806-1887) d.Jan>Mar 1887, Whitechapel, Lon, age 81 : [Whitechapel dist inc Spitalfields]
- John Soper b.c1826, M.sx; ??perhaps the John, plasterer & wife Susan [Gilby?] m.bef.1851 [lived next door to Charles most of life at Paradise Cottage, Hammersmith]
- Charles Soper b.c1831; plasterer m.Eliza Victo Toy 1858 both b.Hammersmith
- Francis Soper b.c1832 domestic b.Herts
- Alfred Soper b.cJul 1840 [not vis bmd]; '51cen errand boy
- Frederick Soper b.c1846; '51cen laborer b.Hammersmith; '62 navy?; m.Jane Yeates 1875, Highworth, Wilts
- Helen Soper b.c1848, M.sx
: '41cen John 38 plasterer at Haumdy? Rd, Hammersmith; Sarah 35, John 15, Charles 11, Thomas 9, Alfred 8m; all but John snr b.M.sx; scan
: '51cen John Soaper 47m visitor, plasterer at Swanswalk Rd, Mickleham, Dorking, Sy, b.Bristol, S.st; John 25m plasterer b.Whitechapel, M.sx; with 4 other visiting plasterers; William Cheeseman 26 b.Hammersmith; John Davis 51 b.Chelsea; Daniel Sullivan 49 b.Whitechapel & John Sullivan 22 b,Stainsted, Sx scan
: '51cen Sarah 44m domestic at Gillaces Place, St Peter, Hammersmith; b.Hammersmith; Charles 20 plaster b.M.sx; Francis 19 domestic b.Herts; Alfred 11 errand boy; Frederick 5 scholar; Helen 3 all b.M.sx scan
: '61cen John 58 plasterer 6 Trafalgar St, Hammersmith; b.Bristol, Glos & son Frederic 14, laborer b.Hammersmith; also lodger Jonathan Brown 60, a labourer, b.St Giles : [not vis '71cen]
: 1862 ?a Frederick Soper (1846-?). a naval rating; b.11 Jan 1846, Hammersmith, M.sex; Application at Whitehall 22 Dec 1862 [presume pension application]. See Also Adm 139/573 Cs 17247A : Nat Archives ref ADM 29/67/124 [a Frederic Soper in '61cen, a labourer, age 14, b.Hammersmith at Trafalgar St, Hammersmith with his father John Soper 58 a plasterer b.Bristol, Glos]
: 1862 Frederick continuous service nr.17247a; w.22 Dec 1862; UK, Naval Officer & Rating Service Records, 1802-1919 scan
: Thomas Soper Slope, linen draper of 55 Piccadilly, insured with Sun Fire Office. 18 Apr 1832 : Guildhall Library, ref; MS 11936/533/1138238 www.a2a
: Thomas Soper Slope (1793-1850) b.Kingsands last of 3 children of Thomas Slop (b.Witton nr.Walsham, Norfolk) & Elizabeth Booth (1747-1828) : ['Soper' from Thomas's 1st m. to Blanch Blanchet Soper (1745-82) they had 5 children] (b.Kingsland to John Soper & Maudlin); d.St George, Hanover Sq, Lon. (other site says d.1881??) from source, source b & c
: Thomas Soper Slope, his master, had John Turner 18 steal 9yds silk, value 13s & 6yds Orleans cloth 8s.; pleaded guilty, Transported 7y; New Court 26 Oct 1848. source
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: Soper of Bury St, Edmonton, chairman of a meeting for Conservative Lord Henley at the Angel Inn. Only abt 45 attended, most for Mr Hume. Soper got into dispute with an elector, the utmost confusion ensued. 'His uncourteous & insulting behaviour obliged him to quit the chair', 'followed by a volley of groans & kisses'. His Lordship came alone unsupported by just his imbacilic Chairman (& he could not have selected a more unpopular man out of the 4 parishes). Lord Henley doned his greatcoat & left; from a letter in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 1 Dec 1832, from newspapers.bl.uk
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: John Soper of Bury St, Edmonton; copyhold land & so qualified for Electoral List; 1832 [when list started] to 1840 scan & scan
: Henry Soper's employee J Bormer, charged with embezzling 70yds silk. A weaver, he said his place was broken into & silk stolen, but officers opinioned, no forcible entry made & circumstances caused suspicion. Remanded for inquiries; 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 15 Mar 1832), from newspapers.bl.uk
: Henry Soper 16 Fort St, Old Artillery Ground, Tower Hamlets; house qualified him for Electoral List; 1832 scan; 1833 to 1873 house at 32 Spital Sq, Norton Folgate, Tower Hamlets; Electoral List; scan - scan [1843-4 '32 Spital Sq, house & factory'] : In 1852 listed as Henry Soilleux Soper at 32 Spital Sq; a Henry also at 12 Spital Sq 1862-68. In this time vote though owning freehold house at 122 Brick Ln, St Matthew, Bethnal Green
: Henry Soper, silk manufacturer, 32 Spital Sq, insured with Sun Fire Office. 5 Dec 1832 & 28 Mar, 17 July 1833 : [The 2 dates in 1833 might mean 2 Spital Sq properties]. Fellow occupier was Rev Richard Tillard, rector of Bluntisham, Hunts : Also insured 24 Dec 1834 : Guildhall Library, ref; MS 11936/535/1153737 www.a2a [see 1826]
[could this be John, m Margaret Woods, St Luke, Old St, Finsbury, 1820?] [her dau Margaret died 1828]
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Captain Soper made a comment at a public meeting at St Mary Rotherhithe, after a 'diabolical spirit of incendiarism' existed in the Rotherhithe docks & warehouse area, several fires had been recently put out : from The Times 26 Nov 1834 34/761n
Henry Soper, a silk manufacturer, living at Spital Sq [as 1834 above], Sold a silk umberella manufacturer silk that he printed, the pattern was exclusive & another manufacturer accused of stealing it : Old Bailey trial, not guilty 3 Jul 1834 : oldbaileyonline : [see Henry Soper, Silk Merchant 1826] : [a George Soper, umberella maker, Soho '41 census]
: Mr Soper, confectioner at Lisson Grove, a Footman 32 requesting employment, in or out of livery, C of E. None need apply whose servants are all stricktly moralcontact H J at Mr Soper's; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 5 Jun 1834, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: Mary Soper "I'm the wife of Frederick Soper, he keeps the threepenny post, at Lisson Grove. I attend the letter-box. In the morning I went to the letter-box & found a letter in it. 1 of the 2 seals had been opened & it appeared as if something had been taken out. This is the letter, it had our post-mark on it. I've no idea that there was any money in it". Mary Jones took a sovereign from a friend’s letter before posting it : 2 months at Old Bailey 26 Oct 1835 www.oldbaileyonline.org : [Frederick Soaper or Fredrick, confectioner of 52 Lisson Grove, Marylebone. Will 1845]
R Soper & T Chapman, xfurriersx of Little Chelsea, bankrupt, from The Times 14 Mar 1835 : 18/211p
- Mary A Soper b.c1835 Cripplegate, M.sex; m.Joshua Woodcock Oct>Dec 1852 London East
- Elizabeth Soper b.c1836 Cripplegate; '61cen 25unm laundress
: '41cen John 30-4 carpenter, at New St, Bethnal Green, St Mathew; b.M.sx; Mary 25-9 not b.M.sx; Mary 6; Elizabeth 5 both b.M.sx scan
: 1844 ?an Elizth Soper (c1836-) discharged by own request 1 Mar 1844, Christ Church Workhouse, Southwark; age 8; after 8w 3d at house; London Workhouse Registers scan; also 17 Apr 1844 after 4w 1d at house ; discharged by P Board scan & assume same Elizth discharged 7 Jun 1849 after 33w 2d at house, discharged bt committee scan : [2m away, but across Thames, so different districts?]
: '51cen John 40 jyn carpenter [journeyman] at 2 New St, (St Phillips), Bethnal Green, M.sx; b.City, M.sx; M Soper 39 cotton winder b.Bedfordshire; M A Soper 16 packer b.Cripplegate, M.sx scan
: '51cen Elizabeth Soper 15 serv nursemaid at 29 Sandy Row, Christ Church, Tower Hamlets, M.sx; b.M.sx scan & scan
: '61cen John 50 carpenter at 15 Gloster Row, Shoreditch St Leonard; b.City; Mary 47 cotton winder, b.Dunstable, Beds & dau Elizabeth 25unm laundress b.Cripplegate, M.sex; also grandaughters, scholars, Mary Ann Woodcock 7, Elizebeth Woodcock 5, both b.Bethnal Green & Eliza Woodcock 3, b,Shoreditch : ['71/'81cen not vis]
- George Samuel Soper b.16 Jun 1837; bpt.9 Jul at St Andrew, Holborn, City of London; father brass finisher of Banner Sq scan; Parish Records [written 'Sooper']; 1857 insane
- Charlotte Soper b.1838, [assume d.bef 1845]
- William Catherine Soper b.Apr>Jun 1839, Shoreditch, Lon; brass finisher m.Elizabeth c1860?
- Samuel Thomas Soper b.Oct>Dec 1840, Shoreditch : '61cen brass finisher 20; Thomas Samuel Soper m.Caroline Amelia Ross 1864
- William Soper b.1840 St Leonard, Shoreditch; not vis '61cen; '71cen at Finsbury; '81cen 41 brass finisher at Luton, Beds with wife Elizabeth
- Charlotte Eliza Soper b.Oct>Dec 1842, Shoreditch : '61cen mantle maker 18 with grmother : m.Apr>Jun 1862, London East to Joshua Chu_er or Joseph Hornblower
- James Soper b.1846 Shoreditch: '61cen jeweler 16, [not vis '71/'81cen; ??perhaps law clerk '11cen see below]
- Jane Maria Soper b.Oct>Dec 1846, Shoreditch : '61cen bookholder 14; not vis '71cen '81cen; m. not obvious
: 1840-4 a Samuel at 67 Great Leonard St, St Leonard, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets; house qualified him for Electoral List; 1840 scan & scan
: '41cen Samuel 30-4 brass finisher; Great Bernard St, St Leonard, Shoreditch, M.sx; Charlotte 25-9, George 3, William 2, Samuel 6m, scan
: '51cen Samuel 42 brass finisher at 3 Roxton Place, St Leonard, Shoreditch; b.Exeter, Dev; Charlotte 62 independent b.Spring Frits?, Essex; George 13; William 11; Thomas 9; Charlotte 6; James 5; Jane 3 all scholar b.Shoreditch scan
: 1851? a Charlotte Soper d.Jul>Sep 1851, Shoreditch, Lon
: ?? a Jane Soper scored 1,681 points & came top of the list of 10 girls elected by the guardians to the Asylum for Female Orphans, Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth [for Lambeth orphans 1758-1866 in St George's Fields, Southwark]
: 1853 Samuel m.Mary Ann Hipsey Sep 1853 Bishopgate, [m.Jul>Sep London East, Lon (bmd)]
: 1856 Samuel 47 brass finisher, 65 Britania Terrace, m.Mary Sep 1853 Bishopgate; 6 children all from m.Mar 1835 at St Pancras to 1st wife Charlotte. 1837 took house 67 Gt Leonard St at 18l & taxes, occupied 16y & lived in Shoreditch since (Mr Bewley their landlord for most of period). Poor law settlement papers 7 Aug 1856 found belongs Shoreditch scan
: 1857 Samuel Soper 48 of 65 Britania Terrace, 4 years, for son George Samuel 21 insane; Poor law settlement papers 19 Aug 1857 found belongs Shoreditch scan
: 1856 ?a George Samuel Soper private patient 22 Aug 1856 at St. Luke's [Hospital for Lunatics], London, discharged, not improved, 21 Aug 1857 [after 1y]; from Lunacy Patients Admission Registers scan
: '61cen Samuel 52 brass finisher 65 Britania Terrace, Shoreditch St Leonard, M.sx; b.Exeter, Dev; wife Ann 47, b.Maldon, Essex; Thomas 20 brass finisher, James 16 jeweller, Jane Maria 14 bookholder, all b.Shoreditch
: '71cen Samuel brass finisher 63; at 65 Brittania St, Private House (or Redate Ho?), Shoreditch, b.Exeter, Dev; Mary Ann 56, b.Lower Maldon, Ex; [sister] ]Susanna 45 fancy stationer, St Lukes, M.sx; 1st household in property of a proffesor of music & wife b.Exeter, Dev; scan
: '81cen Samuel 72, brass finisher (no work 4 months) at 65 Brittannia St, [Shoreditch]; b.Exeter, Dev; Mary A 66 b.Maldon, Ex; sister Susannah 52unm fancy stationer; b.St Lukes, M.sx scan
: 1881? a Samuel Soper (c1809-1881) d.Apr>Jun 1881, Shoreditch, Lon, age 72
: '91cen Mary A 76 head in 1 room of 106 Dunlace Rd,Hackney, Lon; b.St Marys Walden, Ex
: '91cen sister Susannah 63 living on means, on own, also in 1 room of 106 Dunlace Rd,Hackney, Lon; b.St Luke, Lon; & in 4 rooms at address Thomas S 50 brass finisher (em'ee) at 106 Dunlace Rd, Hackney; b.St Marys Walden, Ex; Caroline A 48; Helen C 26unm both b.Marylebone; Alice M 20unm b.Shoreditch both tie machinists; Florence S 15; Amy R 14 both b.Hackney scan
: 1892 Mary Ann Soper (c1815-1892) d.Jul>Sep 1892, Hackney, Lon, age 77
: '01cen Susannah 73unm at 285 Silver St, Edmonton, (All Saints), M.sex, b.Lon; lodging with George Agate 55 nurseryman (employer) wife Sophia 46, dau 20 florists ass, son 18 nursery ass, dau 16; scan
: 1902 Susannah d.19 Feb 1902, of Weir Hall Nursery, Silver St, Edmonton, M.sx; administration Lon 19 May 1903 to James Henry Soper, commercial clerk; estate £47 14s 3d; from Probate Calender, scan : [d.Jan>Mar, Edmonton, age 74]
: so assume James Henry was son/nephew? '11cen James Soper 56 widowed law clerk at 48 [Newington/Liverpool/Mary/S/St], Southwark, Lon; b.Sy/Lon
Soper traced a man to George St, 30 Jan 1836 arrested him, found the money & with Inspector Morgan & took him to court 6 Feb, theft of £600 : from The Times 43/761n : also in a court book
6 Sep 1836 our man was conversing at Russell St, Covent Garden when an F division sergent, accused of stealing money from the station, passed with a handkerchief up to his face, case continues. (Corruption a problem, 4 F div commissioners had been suspended) 45/761n
15 Nov 1836 finds PC Soper walking Holborn, 11pm Sunday, Invited into a burgled shop, he established it was'nt & got a confesion from the shopkeeper, she invited an elderly paramour with a black ill-favoured visage to stay overnight & it was him what did it
Jan 31, 1837 He called on a suspect who's wife had died & discovered an apron with wet blood on it
Dec 14 1837 He tooks a 13 year old to Magistrates court, who he found destitute in a hay loft. He had not eaten for 2 days & had been refused poor relief. PC Soper asked to go to the parish & try the effect of the magistrate's recomendation 50/761n
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William Soaper Gentleman of Rotherhithe, Surrey. Will 15 Nov 1836 Scan available online nationalarchives.gov.uk ref prob11/1919 :
: 'Mrs Soper' of Spitalfields manufactured a 157ft circumference ballon containing 70,000ft gas, from Italian silk material. Ist flew with 9 people 21 Sept 1836 google book
Mr Soper (& 6 other) accompaned Mr Green on his 280th baloon assent : from The Times 29 Jun 1841 62/761n
: Mr Soper again with large crowds inside & outside of the gardens : from The Times 27 Jul 1841 61/761n
: Henry Soper asended with 6 others (inc Mr Green's wife & father) in The Great Nassau Ballon from Vauxhall Gdns, going NE for 35 mins landed, East Ham marshes. Later 'the aeronauts were brought them abruptly to terra firma', when a spring on the vehicle carrying them home broke : from The Times 24 Aug 1841 63/761n
: H Soper contributed 2 guineas to fund for fire at Christ Church, Spitalfield which caused £5,000 damage; in 'Morning Post' 20 Apr 1836, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
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Mr Soper gentleman & silk mfr of Spital Sq helped 2 H div PCs. A group tried to rescue an arrested man. They took refuge from a large crowd behind church railings & stones & mud was thrown. More reinforcements were knocked down taking the prisoner to the station. Mr Soper said he was most violently assaulted & kicked right & left. He considered the police justified in using their staves; 'The Morning Post' 20 Sep 1836, from newspapers.bl.uk
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John & James Soper brokers of London, 22 Mar 1837 brokered the sale if 200 tons of lead (from Bog Mine, Shrops) to William Thomson & Co, a lead merchant of London. The lead arrived late & Soper a witness for J & J Soper in Ellis v Thompson 1838 : Court of Exchequer from Google Books : [a John in business d.1851, age 74, he m.Charlotte Thomson]
- Jane Elizabeth Mortimer Soper b.Oct>Dec 1839, St Pancras : [as not bpt.1848; ??a Jane d.Jul>Sep 1847 St P]
- Hannah Maria Soper b.17 Feb 1842, St Pancras (b.Jan>Mar) bpt.10 Jul 1848 St John the Evangelist, Smith Sq [with 3 elder siblings]
- Hephzibah Lydia Soper b.26 Sep 1844 Lon [not vis bmd] m.John Brimley gasfitter 22 Sep 1872 at St Clement Danes, M.sx [m.Jul>Sep, Strand], both of 34 Hollywell St; both signed, ages 27 & 23; father John Brimley gardener; witnesses James George Welbie? & Susannah Brimley ; scan
- George Start Soper b.17 Apr 1847, St P [b.Apr>Jun]; m.Susanna Brimley Oct>Dec 1884 Strand; d.Oct>Dec 1922, Edmonton, age 76 [2nd Soper/Brimley m]
- Henry Mortimer Soper b.17 Apr 1847, St P [b.Apr>Jun] (twins), [not vis '61/'71cen]; d.28 Jan 1849 of tuberculosis for 7 months*
- Thomas William Soper b.18 Aug 1849 Westminster, bpt.28 Nov 1849, St John the Evangelist [b.Jul>Sep] d.Jan>Mar 1851, Southwark, St Saviour, Lon [see below]
: 1834-6 Joseph ; on 'HMS Columbine'; sent letters to his future wife Jane Seldon Pearce (Peecy?) Mortimer
: '41cen Joseph 28 carpenter at Henry St, St Pancras, Lon; Jane 30, Jane 1, none b.Lon; & Henry Anison 45 coach painter, Andrew Carning 25 coach smith scan
: 1848 carpenter at 17 Market St; when 4 children bpt at St John the Evangelist, Smith Sq scan
: 1851 Thomas of St Saviours NS Parish, discharged from Christ Church Workhouse, Mint St, Southwark, as died 26 Mar 1851; diet nr.9 [babys diet]; [4 deaths in 4 days] scan
: '51cen Joseph 38m pauper carpenter, journeyman at St Saviour Union Workhouse, (Christ Church), Southwark, Sy; b.Devonport scan
: '51cen Jane 40 servants valet, married pauper at St Saviors workhouse, Christ Church, Southwark, Sy, b.Devonport, Dev; Hannah 9; Hepbzibah 6; George 4 all b.Hampstead, M.sx; all paupers scan : [from list perhaps also looking after with Isaac Crofts 5 months old b.don't know; on page 15 of 20 names each] : ['all grand sounding names but family paupers, at St Saviour Union Workhouse, Southwark .. . A few months later'*]
: 1851 Joseph d.27 Jul 1851 Devonport Workhouse; *His widow stayed London ... : Joseph Robert Start Soper d.Jul>Sep 1851, Stoke Damerel, Dev
: 1859 ?a George a boy fell through ice at ornamental lake, Regents Pk 19 Dec 1859 (with 30/40 others), rescued from drowning by Richard Wilding who plunged in. His piano shop manager presented him a watch; 'Morning Chronicle' 20 Jan, from news.bl.uk; scan : ['61cen 2 London Georges age 13 at Westminster & 11 at Clerkenwell]
: '61cen; Jane 50, widowed laundress at 9 Strand Ln, St Clement Danes, Westminster; b.Devonport, Hepzibah Soper 16, laundress George 16, errand boy both b.London, with unm sister Emma Mortimer 66 b.Devonport
: '71cen; Jane 61 laundress, mother at 9 Strand Ln, St Clement Danes, Lon; b.Devonport; Hephzibah Lydia Soper 26unm laundress, b.Lon; George Start Soper 23unm clerk; grandau Jane 7 scholar, all b.Lon scan : [Jane's b.not vis bmd; or '81cen & no d. vis]
: '81cen; Jane 71 widow at 6 Craven Bldgs, Lon; b.Devonport & son George Start Soper 33unm market porter b.Lon; [7 in 3 households at address] scan
: 1890 Jane (c1810-1890) d.Apr>Jun 1890, age 80, Fulham, Lon; d.1890 Fulham Union Infirmary*
: [*from gggrandson Peter Soper, 2004 & 8 ancestry.com & curiousfox.org.uk {reply} ]
: '41cen only Thomas vis : ?Thomas Soper 70-74, labourer at Odiham, Hants; b,Hants, staying with John Sugg 60-4 lab, Sarah 50-4, Daniel 15-9 lab : Elizabeth Woolford 60, James 25, William 20, Jane 20 : Henry Cock 50, lab, Sarah 50, David 10 : scan : [d.not obvious bmd]
: William Soper, Gentleman of Rotherhithe, Surrey his will of 15 Nov 1839 : prob 11/1919 nationalarchives, available online
: William Soper, Church of St Mary at Rotherhithe - The chief sepulchral memorial is a white marble tablet commemorative of the Soper family, of whom William Soper, Esq., who died 1839, was many years treasurer of this parish : from Google Books
: William Soper late of Paradise St, Rotherhithe, Sy, Gentleman who died Nov 1839. Persuant to Soper v Soper in High Court of Chancery, any person claiming to be an heir at law to come forward bef 25 Jul 1842 or they will be excluded from the decree : London Gazette [his legacy charged again for the same advert in Apr 1844]
Mary Branson Soaper spinster, St John the Evangelist, Stoke, Surrey, marriage bond, 1 Oct 1840 from Charles Alexander Parson source : [parents George Soaper m.Mary Branson 1806]
- William John George Soaper b.Jan>Mar 1840, Poplar, Lon; d.Oct>Dec 1842, Poplar
- ?John Lowden Soaper b.Oct>Dec 1841 & d.Oct>Dec 1842, Poplar
- ?Sarah Ann Soaper b.Jul>Sep 1843, Poplar & a Sarah Soaper; d.Jan>Mar 1846, Poplar, Lon
: '41cen John Soaper 35-9 labourer at Ashton St, Poplar, Lon; Sarah 30-4 both not b.Lon; William 1 b.Lon; also William Taylor 25-9 waterman, Nicholas Taylor 20-4
: John, Sarah of Poplar, New Town 1850 Trinity House petition : Trinity House Petitions from BritishOrigins.com : [perhaps a claim for relief?]
: '51cen ?John Soaper 46 store keeper at 1 Brunswick St, Poplar, M.sx, b.Portsea, Hants [on his own] : scan
: John Soaper d.Oct>Dec 1853, Poplar
: Sarah Ann Soaper d.Oct>Dec 1865, Stepney, Lon
: E Soper esq of Cheapside m.Lavinia Vaux, 10 Feb 1840 at Tottenham Church; 3rd dau of the late Robert Vaux esq, of West Green House, Tottenham, Lon & of Court St Lawrence, Monmouthshire 'The Standard (Lon)', 11 Feb from scan : [Ebenezer m.Jan>Mar Edmonton bmd dist]
: b.18 Jun 1798 to George & Grace Minor ne.Isabell who m.1795 St Austell, Con
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: Mrs E Soper of Gibson Sq, Islington had son 17 Nov 1840 : from The Times 23 Nov : 24/211p : [cloth dealer '31 - biog] : [the son, E Soper d.1860]
: [Mrs E of Gibson Sq had son 17 Nov 1840 (in Times)]
- George Albert Soper b.Jan>Mar 1841 Islington [d.1860, age 20 after long illness] [late registering b.Jan? as 6m in June 41]
- Henry Ebenezer Soper b.Oct>Dec 1842 Islington, warehouseman of Wood St bankrupt 1868; '80cen 34unm clothing clerk in New York; bankrupt 1868; d.1898 NY, a cabbie
- Emma Catherine Matilda Soper b.Jan>Mar 1847 & Emma Catherine Soper d.Oct>Dec 1855 both Islington
- Mary Frances Soper b.Oct>Dec 1849 Islington; of Norfolk Ho Albion Rd, Dalston, unm 1874, executor of mother; d.1889 Hampstead, age 40, leaving £3,300
: [Ebenezer cloth dealer, witness at Old Bailey trial 1831 re fabric theft]
: [bought biog of St.A preacher 1834]
: [furniture manufacturer of 15 Cheapside had property stolen from his warehouse 1838]
: ['41cen Ebenezer 40-4 calico printer at Gibson Sq, W.Islington (St Mary parish) not b.Lon Lavinia 30-4 b.Lon, George 6m b.Lon & 2 servants Louisa Dunmall 35-9, Elya Martin 15-9 (census June)]
: [Ebenezer an Old Bailey jurer 1841]
: [at 15 Cheapside 1842]
: [Ebenezer, furniture printer, 15 Cheapside, London Directory 1843]
: [a ? Soper of 15 Cheapside [assume Ebenezer] ; List of Subscribers to annual report, Art Union of London 1851 google books (also subscribed; George J Soper 16 Pelham Rd, Brompton)]
: [of Cheapside had handkerchief stolen Goswell Rd, Nov 1845]
: ['51cen Ebenezer 59 calico printer at 4 Gibson Sq, Islington; b.St Austell?, Conl; Lavina 43 b.Spitalfields; George Albert 10 scholar; Hy Elenze 8 scholar; E M (f) 4; M F (f) 1 all b.Islington scan]
: [wrote religious book 1853 & '63]
: [a C Soper of 15 Cheapside [also], selling lease & fixtures of convenient general furnishings shop at West End of London, stock optional; 1855; scan]
: [?wrote shorthand book 1856?]
: [Ebenezer Soper, 124 Wood St, Cheapside in long list of prominent draper wholesalers of London 1860?]
: [George Albert d.4 Dec 1860 after a long illness, age 20, eldest son of Mr E of Gibson Sq Islington & Wood St, Cheapside, 'The Morning Post']
: ['61cen Ebenezer 62, a furniture printer, emp at 6 Islington St Mary; b.St Austh; Lavinia 53 b.Spitalfields; Henry E 16, drapers apprentice & Mary F 11, scholar both b.Islington]
: [died 1 Oct 1861 of 14 Gibson Sq, Islington & 124 Wood St, City warehouseman (d.Oct>Dec Islington), will proved 18 Oct; to Charles Sibley, 9 Foster Ln, City accountant & Lavinia Soper 14 Gibson Sq, [his] widow; executors; estate under £5,000; resworn at Stamp Office Oct 1862 under £12,000 ; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com)]
: [widow Lavinia & George Hervey Botcherby furniture printers & warehousemen, dissolve co-partnership of disolved "E Soper & Co" 124 Wood St, Lon by mutual consent 2 Dec '63]
: [Messrs Soper & Botcherby paid a guinea towards London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd; May 1868 : scan]
: [a Henry Ebenezer Soper 14 Gibson Sq & Wood St bankruptcy 1868-77]
: 1871cen Lavinia 63 at 14 Gibson Sq, son Henry C [Henry E] 28 & dau Mary F 21 all 'no occupation', b.Lon scan
: 1871 ‘Soper & Botcherby’ at 124 Wood St 1 Mar 1871 wound up; H E Soper & G H Botcherby furniture printers; partnership disolved; 'Daily News'; scan
: 1871 H E Soper Objection to proof, London Bankruptcy Court, Lincoln's Inn before registra Roche; 6 Jun 1871; scan
: 1871 Henry Ebenezer warehouseman instituted bankruptcy proceedings. Trustees George Lavington 44 Threadneedle St stock broker & Walter Tregellas 122, Bishopsgate St share dealer. All creditors to apply & all debts or possessions due to the debtor to go to trustees 14 Jun 1871 (London Gazette 20 Jun) : Dividend to be declared 25 May (10 May) Dividend 6 Jul paid 2s 6d in the £ (9 Jul) : creditor deadline to come forward 1 Aug 1877 (Gazette 24 Jul) ; final dividend , creditors to prove debts by 9 Dec 1893 Gazette
: 1874 Lavinia d.12 Feb 1874, widow of 14 Gibson Sq, Islington, Lon; will 20 Mar 1874 to Mary Frances of Norfolk House, Albion Rd, Dalston, M.sx, unm dau, one of the executors; estate under £200; from Probate Calender, scan; (Lavinia (c1809-1874) d.Jan>Mar Kensington, age 65)
: 1880cen son Henry E 34unm clothing clerk, b.Eng; '80cen living Manhattan, New York, '80cen (17 Jun) 1 of 9 boarders in large household of Gustavus Johnson, [perhaps a department store?] scan
: 1889 Mary Frances d.16 Sep 1889, spinster of 1 Heath View, Willow Rd, Hampstead, M.sx; died Heath View; will Principle Registry 2 Jan 1890 to George Hervey Botcherby, warehouseman of 63 Friday St, City of London, one of the executors; estate £3,332 9s 11d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Mary Frances (c1849-1889) d.Jul>Sep, Hampstead, age 40] : [not vis '81cen]
: 1893 Henry Ebenezer of 14 Gibson Sq, Islington & 124 Wood St, Lon, final bankruptcy dividend [bankruptcy started 1868?! see above - assume addresses from then, as he was in NY?]
: 1898 Henry E unm cabbie; d.19 Dec 1896 Manhattan, NY, age 48; bur.26 Dec NY; b.England to Ebenezer Soper & Lavinia Vaux both b.Eng source
: John Soper, 'Original Opposed' Insolvent Debtors Court, Portugal St : from The Times 3 Dec 1841 66/761n : [perhaps the John of Mark Ln, relation of James below]
: John Soper, Bail case; hearing adjourned, Debtors Court, Portugal St; in 'Morning Post' 11 Dec 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk
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John Soper late of 8 Meadow Row, New Kent Rd, Surrey (formerly of Rodney Buildings, New Kent Rd) builder, undertaker, licenced to sell beer (at British Queen beer shop at 8 Meadow Row, (corner of William St) : In Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Insolvency court 7 Aug 1841 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/20006/pages/2070 10 Aug) : a prisoner Court hearing Portugal St, 3 Dec, wife an assistant to Mrs Drinkwater, laundress of Meadow Row (London Gazette 12 Nov) : Insolvent nr51,965T ; 11 Dec Henry Bye appointed assignee (14 Dec) : [another (or same) insolvency 1850] : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819]
- William Frederick Soper b.19 Dev 1844, bpt.20 Jun 1847 Thomas, cab driver & Sarah, of 24 Hide Place, at St Mary, Tothill Fields scan : [Thomas/Sarah not obvious '41/'51cen]
: ??'61cen a William F Soaper 14 shoebinder at 6 Smith St, Stepney, Msx; b.Lon; son-in-law with Robert Wilson 34 b.Stepney & Sarah Wilson 40 b.Portsmouth Landport (a 2nd son-in-law Jabez Hickwood 10 [assume Stickwood]) : [no Sarah m.vis bmd]
1841 Census, 163 names listed
: Ann Soper, Miss, lodger at 35 Albermarle St, Picadilly, insured in the Westminster Fire Office (35 Occupied by Messrs Wild & Gilling, miliners, insured elsewhere); Fire damage 15-35, George Hotel 33-4 totally destroyed; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 4 May 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk
: Ann Soper (Miss), miliner & dressmaker at 35 Albemarle St; London Directory 1843
: ?'51cen Anne Soper 37 head at New (or Old) Bond St, M.sx; '51cen; & sisters Jane Soper 31; Sarah Soper 29 all dress makers b.Exeter, Dev; with ass dress makers 25 b.France, 22 b.Huntingdon, 25 b.Sx & 22 b.Lon; apprentice 17 b.Lon, Porter 22 b.Norfolk, & servant 22 & 27 scan
: 1842 Caroline Soper of Chapel St, Grosvener Place; m.John Busher coachbuilder of 212 Piccadilly; 8 Sep 1842 at St James, Westminster; both full age, signed & unm; fathers Edward Soper cabinet maker & John Busher, deceased; Witnesses Wm? D I Busher, Maria Soper [assume sister?] scan : m.Jul>Sep St James : [no Edward cabinet mkr in '41/51cen; no Maria vis '51cen; only Maria vis m.Lon Jul>Sep 1859] : [assume bro William m.1847 b.c1821 Chelsea to Edward cabinet mkr]
- Henry Soper b.c1818-1822 : [?assume '51cen Henry Thomas 26 compositor & printer, Eliz 24 & Eliz 7]
- Emma Soper/Emily/Amelia b.c1825 St Pancras; '51cen laundress; '61cen 36unm dress maker
- Charles W(/or M) Soper b.c1829/32 St Pancras; assume Charles 1830 '61cen 32unm printer; d.1876
- Frederick Soper b.c1839 St Pancras; '61cen 22 unm printer
: '41cen George 40-4 compositor? at Little Clarendon St, St P; Clarisse? (Clarissa?) 34; Henry 15-9; Charles 11; Frederick 2; all b.M.sx
: '41cen Emma 15-19 at Upper Seymore St, St P, M.sx; b.M.sx servant with James Smith 28 cl, Eliza 25, Caroline 6, Frederick 4, Lousea 2, Henry 9m
: '51cen Claris 45 laundress at 21 Wilstead St, St P, M.sx; b.St P; Emma 26 laundress; Charles 20 printers prfs man; Frederick 12 scholar all b.St P; scan
: '61cen Clarence Sopher 60 widow, of independant means at 3 Brill Crescent, St P; b.Bristol, Glos; unm children; Emma 36 dress maker: C M Sopher (male) 32, letter press printer; Frederick 22 ?at fancy? business, all b.Pancras : [no Claisa m or d vis bmd]
: '61cen [connection? an Louisa Sopher 19unm house servant at 3 Birthmuch St?, St Pancras, Grays Inn Ln, M.sx; b.Pancas Lon; in household of Edward P Wright 30, contracter, Amy Wright 16 & 2nd house serv Sarah Tomkins 32 b.Exeter : not vis '51cen]
: '71cen Charles W Soper (c1832-?) printer pressman 39 at 84 Victoria Rd, St Pancras, b.St P, M.sx; Clara A 66 b.Bristol, Glos; Emma A 46 unm laundress b.St P scan
: 1876 Charles William Soper d.Apr>Jun 1876, St Giles, Lon, age 46
: '81cen Mrs Soper 78 widow, in receipt of parish relief; at 85 Camden St, Lon; b.Bristol & unm dau Emily* 50 laundress b.Pancras, M.sx : [*assume Emma; ??an Emma 52 & 65 flower maker in Clerkenwell '81/91cen but a widow]
: 1888 Clara Soper (c1806-1888) d.Jan>Mar 1888, age 82, St Pancras, Lon
: '91cen ??an Amelia Soper 68unm laundress in 1 room at 85 Camden St, (Camden Town), St Pancras, Lon; b.Somers Town, Lon;
scan; (12 in 4 households at address) : [same address, but an Amelia 56unm in Lon '81cen]
- John Fred Soper b.c1824 Westminster; engine driver
- Henry Charles Soper b.c1828 Lambeth; engine driver; m.Susan Bellamy, 1851 Southwark
: '51cen John 63 printer at 18 Gloster St (St Mary), Lambeth, Sy; John Fred 27 engine driver both b.West[minster?], M.sx; Henry Charles 23 engineer b.Lambeth; lodging with 2nd household of John Callwill 47 general small dealer, wife 54 & niece Ann Blythe 11; scan
: '61cen John 74 widowed confectioner 83 Union St, (St Mary), Lambeth; John 36 engine driver; both b.Westminster, M.sex; Henry 33 & his family also at 83 Union St
: '71cen John 47 engineer b.Lambeth staying with brother Henry engine driver 43 & his family at 15 Park Rd, Lambeth; scan : [not vis '81 when : not vis '91cen]
- Maria Soper b.c1820
- Catherine Soper b.c1821; [??a Catherine Snelling Soper m.Apr>Jun 1857 Southwark, St Saviour]
- Matilda Soper b.c1832 St Saviors, Sy; '51cen needle woman; [??a Matilda m.Oct>Dec 1853 Clerkenwell]
- Robert Benjamin Soper b.c1836 St Saviors, Sy; m.Hannah Blay Jan>Mar 1856, St Luke, Lon; '61 gold chain maker
- Clara Veletta Soper b.Jan>Mar 1839 Lambeth & d.Oct>Dec 1841 Bethnal Green
: '51cen George 59 head carpenter at 1 Peacock Place, St Judes, Bethnal Green, M.sx; dau Matilda 18 needle woman; Robert B 14 errand boy all b.St Saviors, Surrey scan
: '51cen Dinah Soper 57 ? serv/? law? monthly nurse at 53 Bakers St, St Luke, Finsbury, M.sx; b.Stoke?, Kent scan
: 1855 ?a George Soper d.Apr>Jun 1855, Bethnal Green
: '61cen Robert B 23 at 4 Spencer Rd, Hornsey; a gold chain maker b.Bow, Sy; Hannah 22, b.St Luke, M.sx [??a Clare Soper 21 wife of George also a chainmaker in Hornsey]
: '71cen; Dinah S lodger 74 needlewoman, 260 Goswell Rd, Islington, M.sx; b.Stoke on Trent, Staffs [perhaps Sapers?] also Catherine Thompson 54 a monthly nurse b.St Luke, Lon : 1st household in property James R Beale 60 a dealer in musical instruments b.Leatherhead, Kt, wife & 2 violinist sons 28 & 25, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire : [ death not vis bmd so ??perhaps the Dinah m.Apr>Jun 1873, Islington, Lon (bmd), to either Charles Bambury or Henry Essex]
:'41cen ?? a Mary 40-4 at Silbright St, St Mathew, Bethnal Green, Lon; b.Scotland; with Henry Hoster 35 glass maker & Mary Hoston 30 scan
: '51cen Samuel 45 married head attendant on lunatic, at 9 Henry St, St Pancras (Regents Park Dist), M.sx '51, b.Manchester, [Lancs]; 55 people at address (no lunatic) scan : [wife not vis] : [a Henry St in 1857 map above Regents Pk, but looks upmarket?] : [a Soper carpenter in Henry St, fire 1847]
: '61cen Samuel 55 commission agent [unwaged salesman] at 9 Henry St, St Pancras; b.Bovey Tracey, Dev & Mary 60 b.Stromnep N E N S,? [Stromness, Orkney]
: '71cen Samuel (c1805-?) 66 assesor? at 9 Henry St, St Pancras; b.Bovey Tracy; Mary 72 b.Orkney, Scotland scan
: 1872 Mary Soper (c1797-1872) d.Jul>Sep 1872, age 75, St Pancras
: '81cen Samuel 75 widowed, fish porter at 8 St Johns Lane, Lon [Clerkenwell; gruelling job?]; b.Bovey Tracy & visiters Harriett Gray 45 unemployed nurse, widow b.Henly, Oxford & James & Matilda Dowling 10 & 8 both b.St Pancras; scan
: 1888 Samuel Soper (1805-) so age c83, of Sh Parish, admitted before supper to City Road Workhouse, (Holborn Union), Holborn; 1 May 1888, C of E, diet nr.2, porter, 70 Bastwick St, [Clerkenwell] scan & discharged 5 May dead scan
: 1888 Samuel Soper (c1805-1888) d.Apr>Jun 1888, age 83, Shoreditch, Lon : [d.5 May]
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James Soper, a broker of Mark Ln. Insolvent 26 Mar 1841 : from The Times 27 Mar : 25/211p (dividend 10 Sept 1841) - audit at 2pm, Bankrupcy Court, Basinghall St : from The Times 2 Oct 1841 64/761n ; dividend at 11am, Bankrupcy Court, Basinghall S : from The Times 7 Oct 1841 65/761n
James Soper of Mark Lane, broker; certificate to be allowed 15 Jun (Bankruptcy proceedings): from The Law Journal pub.1841 Google Books snippet : [see 1813] : [perhaps the John also insolvent 1841?]
: Henry Soper, 1 of 7 in Nassau Balloon, which took the aeronauts NE, approaching Isle of Dogs, it crossed the river several times, drank the health of Her Majesty while passing Greenwich Hospital & landed in East Ham Marshes after 35 minutes; in 'Derby Mercury' (pub.) 25 Aug 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk
- George Robert Soper b.Jan>Mar 1838, St Pancras, Lon; but George b.c1841, Aldgate, M.sx, from '61cen clerk in wine 19
- Elizabeth Mary Soper b.c1844 Mile End, M.sx [not vis bmd] unm 1895 when executor
- Frederick Seymour Soper b.c1850 Westminster : [not vis bmd] : d.Apr>Jun 1862, Hackney
: '41cen George 20-4 wareman b.Lon at Lower Hamerton, Hackney, St John, Lon; with William Shrives 45-9 carpenter, Susan 35-9, Mary Ann 14 scan
: '51cen George 29 head clerk at 12 North Sq, Stepney, M.sx; b.Dalston, M.sx; Sarah 34 clerks wife b.Ayott?, Herts; George 9 b.Aldgate, M.sx; Elizabeth 7 b.Mile End, M.sx; also visitor Elizabeth Waby 50unm, servant b.Welwun, Herts scan
: 1858 George clerk to Wright & Co, wine merchant in Gracechurch St signed for 30 butts of sherry, stored in London Dock Company's vaults. They were removed without Soper or Write's signatures, so they paid damages; from The Times 28 Apr 1858
: 1858 Mr Soper clerk of Matthew Wright & Co, Gracechurch St. who's name on butts of sherry in the vaults of London Dock Co. Mr Wright agent for shippers in Cadiz who wanted wines to be released without agreement of Wright. He (& Soper) won right to prevent this; in 'Daily News' 29 Apr 1858, from news.bl.uk; scan
: '61cen George 41 warehouse keeper at 17 Brooksbys Walk, Homerton, Hackney; b.Hackney Sarah 44, b.Herts; George R 19 clerk in wine warehouse b.Aldgate; Elizabeth 17, no occupation b.Lon; Frederick Seymour 1, b.Westminster
: 1863 George of 14 Brookby Walk, Homerton, foreman, delivered India rubber to a carrier, a witness Old Bailey 1863
: '71cen George sup(erinten?)ant to wharfinger? 57, b.Dalston, Hackney; at 23 Retreat Place, Hackney, St John; Sarah 53, b.Ayatt?, Herts; Elizabeth M 27, b.Mile End, M.sx; scan
: '81cen George 61 warehousekeeper at 23 Retreat Place, Lon; b.Dalston, M.sx; Sarah 63 b.Hertford; Emma M [assume? Elizabeth] 37unm b.Mile End, M.sx; scan
: '91cen George 71m manager at wharf (harb) (employee) at 24 St Johns Churchyard Rd, (St Johns), Hackney, Lon; b.Dalston, Lon; scan : [alone at address, not widowed, but Sarah & Eliz 47unm not vis; ?? '91cen a married Elizabeth 47 monthly nurse at Putney, b.Bour
ough]
: 1895 George Soper d.24 Feb 1895 of St John's Church Rd, Hackney; probate London 9 Mar 1895 to Elizabeth Mary Soper spinster; estate £649 7s 6d; from Probate Calender, scan : [George (c1820-1895) d.Jan>Mar Hackney, age 75]
: '01cen Elizabeth M 58unm househead, living on own means at 2 Arundel St, Brighton, Sx; b.M.sx scan
: '11cen Elizabeth Mary 68unm alone at 6 Springfield Terrace, Burgess Hill, Sx [7 rooms], b.Lon scan
: 1919 ??an Elizabeth M d.Apr>Jun 1919, Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, age 76
Soper v Soper 'petition by order' Vice Chancellors Courts, Lincolns Inn : from The Times 25 Jul 1845 77/746n
: Ann Soper (Miss) miliner & dressmaker 35 Albemarle St : ['41cen Ann & Jane milliners]
: Ebenezer Soper furniture printer, 15 Cheapside Soper : [cloth dealer '31 - biog]
: Henry Soper silk merchant, 32 Spital Square : [see Henry Soper 1826]
: James Soper broker & agent, 81 Mark Lane : [see 1813]
: Jane Soper (Mrs) sash line mfr, 4 Blossom St, Norton Folgate : [John Stokes Soper m.Jane 1816]
: William Soper boot & shoe maker, 31 Gower Place, Euston Square : [assume m.bef.1827]
: Rev J Soper preached at St Peters de Beauvoir Sq, West Hackney; from The Times 25 Mar 1847 91/746
: John Soper De Beauvoir Sq, Tower Hamlets, house qualified him for Electoral List; 1849 scan
: Rev John Soper conducted a marriage at West Hackney : from The Times 19 Sep 1851. 38/211p (& St Mark's, Kennington 1855)
: ['41cen John Soper 55-9 spirits merchant at Dartmouth, St Saviour, Dev; Caroline Soper 28; John Brown Soper 1] : [connection? John Brown Soper (1812-1813) buried London]
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John Soper Streeter esq of Harper St, Red Lion Sq. Elected 1844, a fellow to The Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society of London : from their Book 1845 Google Books : : Still a fellow 1849 : [see medical soper]
: '41cen; William 44 boot maker at St Pancras; Sarah 44, William 14, Henry 10, James 7, John 7, Edwin 1, Ann 3m, Ann Redwood 75; scan; [2nd household in property Ferd.Little 50porter, dau & son]
: '51cen; William 24 boot closer at 31 Gower Pl, St Pancras, Marylebone; b.St P & Sarah A 30 b.Danbury, Ex at same address the household of William 54 ; b.Exeter, Dev ’51cen ; Sarah 54 b. Ninehead?, S.set, both boot makers; James 17; John 17, both pianoforte makers; Ann 12, Edwin 10 scholars all b.St P; [sharing property with (son) & lodgers Mary & Harriett Dove 40 & 62 seamstress; 3rd family in house William Pike 32 house painter & wife Abigale 33
: ?a Sarah Ann d.Jan>Mar 1854 Marylebone, Lon (Sarah b.Danbury, Ex)
: William Redwood Soper m.Maria Hooper Oct>Dec 1855, St Pancras, Lon
- William Henry Soper b.Oct>Dec 1856, St Pancras
- James Frederick Soper b.Apr>Jun 1859, Bath, S.set; butler/publican; m.Mary Hunt 1886, Kensington
- Charles John Soper b.Oct>Dec 1861, St Giles, Lon ['81cen 19unm groom] : [?a Charles John (c1862-1954) bur.Abney Park Cemetery & Greenford Park Cemetery, Ealing, M.sx, age 92 : Charles J Soper d.Jan>Mar Ealing]
: '61cen William Redwood Soper 35. a ?honiaui? [journeyman?] shoemaker, at 3 Merrill Place, Lyncombe & Widcombe, S.set; b.St Pancras, Lon; Maria 34, b.Trowbridge, Wilts; William Henry 4, b.London & James Fredk 2, b.Bath, S.set
: '71cen William boot maker 44, at Oxford Rd, Clewer, Windsor, b.St Pancras, Lon; Martha 43 boot maker, b.Trowbridge, Lon; William Henry 14 scholar, b.St Pancras, Lon; James Frederick 12 errand boy, b.Bath, S.set; Charles John 9 scholar, b.St Giles, Lon; & brother Edwin 29unm woolen draper, b.St Pancras scan
: '81cen; William 54 bootmaker 7 Bexley Terrace, Clewer, Berks; b.Lon; Maria 53 b.Trowbridge, Wilts; Chas. Jms 19unm groom b.Lon
: William Redwood Soper d.Jan>Mar 1891, Easthampstead, Berks, age 64
: '91cen; Maria 63 widowed charwoman at North St, (St Peters) Winkfield, Cranbourne, Berks '91cen; b.Trowbridge, Wilts also John Boyce lodger 62unm farm labourer b.Cranbourne; scan
: '01cen Maria 72 living on own means in 2 rooms at Alms House, Church Rd, Winkfield, Berks; b.Trowbridge, Wilts; scan
: Maria (c1828-1908) d.Jan>Mar 1908, age 80, Windsor, Berks; d.cMar 1908, S.Ascot, Berks. death recorded in Royal Victoria Nursing Home; bur 12 Mar 1908 Winkfield, Berks; web page from Rob Mills
: or Henry Thomas Soper m.Elizabeth Diffin Apr>Jun 1855, St Pancras, Lon (bmd)
- Elizabeth Ann Soper b.c1844 Staines, Lon (b.not vis bmd {or as Diffin}); ?an Eliza Ann m.Oct>Dec 1869, Lambeth, Lon; (to either Thomas Robert Edgings or James Robinson)
: '51cen Henry Thomas Soper 26 head compositor & printer at 27 Russell Court, St Martins in the Field, Westminster, b.St Pancras; Elizabeth 24; Elizabeth Ann 7 both b.Staines, M.sx scan; 6 households at address
: '61cen Henry T 36 printer, compositor at 37 Tavistock St, Westminster St Paul Covent Garden; b.St Pancras; Elizabeth 36 & Elizabeth Ann 16 both b.Staines, M.sx
: '71cen Henry T 46 compositor at 39 Tavistock St, Strand, St Paul, Covent Garden, Lon; b.St Pancras; Elizabeth 47 Staines, Lon (18 in 8 households at address) scan : [not vis '81/'91cen]
: 1882 Henry Thomas Soper (c1826-1882) d.Jan>Mar 1882, Strand, Lon, age 56
- Mary Ann Soper b.Apr>Jun 1845, St Luke, Lon; '61cen 16 nurse
- George James Soper bpt.4 Oct 1846; George James b.Jul>Sep 1846 (& a George James d.Oct>Dec 1847) both at St Luke, Lon bmd dist
- Emma Lucy Soper bpt.5 Mar 1848 : [Emily Lucy d.Oct>Dec 1867 St Luke, age 19, a non-conformist burial]
- Henry Thomas Soper bpt.17 Mar 1850 : [?a Henry Thomas bur 1876 (but another b.1826)] ?m.Anne Cooley 1870, Islington
- Matilda Soper bpt.6 Mar 1853 all at Finsbury, St.Luke, Old Street (b.Jan>Mar St Luke bmd dist); m.Jacob Fulling Jan>Mar 1869 Mile End
: '51cen George 50 labourer at 3 Radnor St, (St Luke), Finsbury, M.sx; b.St Brides, M.sx; Mary 37 b.Lambeth, Sy; Mary A 5; Emma L 3 scholar; Henry J 1 all b.St Lukes, M.sx (5 others at address); scan
: '61cen Mary 46 widowed laundress at 3 Norman Buildings, St Luke; b.Southwark, Sy; Mary Ann15 nurse; Emma13; Henry 11; Matilda 9 all scholars, all b.St Lukes; also lodger Mary Rush 55 widowed nurse b.Lon : (25 in 7 households in building)
: '71cen Mary Ann Soper 25unm b.?, London; at 12 Nelson St, Mile End Old Town; with brother-in-law Jacob Fulling 25 baker; b.Germany, wife Matilda 19 & dau Matilda 7m : [2 other households in property] scan
: ?'71cen a Henry 21 fishmonger at 133 St John St, St James, Clerkenwell; b.St Lukes, Msx; wife Minnie 20 b.Islington, M.sx scan
- George Soper b.c1843 City [not vis bmd]
- Ann Catherine Soper b.Jul>Sep 1846, Bethnal Green, Lon; m.William Sullivan Apr>Jun 1870, Shoreditch, Lon (connection? an Ann Catherine Soper (c1865-1867) d.Apr>Jun 1867, Rotherhithe, Lon, age 0), son William b.c1866 & dau Rosina b.1870
- Catherine Soper 'Kate' b.Oct>Dec 1848, Bermondsey, Sy [St Olave, Lon bmd dist]; m.John Read 1870s; '81cen Catherine Read 32 widow & 3 dau; She m.Robert Foxwell as 'Catherine Soper' Oct>Dec 1892 St Saviour, Southwark, Lon; Catherine d.1917 age 69 myheritage.com & genesreunited
- Mary Ann Soper b.c1850 Bermondsey
- Clara Soper b.Jan>Mar 1855, Whitechapel, Lon
- Henry Soper b.Apr>Jun 1857, Shoreditch, Lon : [but 2nd Henry age 17 b.Shoreditch '71cen]
- John Thomas Soper b.Jan>Mar 1860, London East
- Richard Soper b.17 Sep 1866, [b.Oct>Dec London East]; '81cen 14 printer; 1882 admitted Royal Philanthropic School, Redhill & absconded** : [not vis after]
: '41cen & '51cen not vis : [where were they?]
: '61cen William 52, tailor b.London City; at 52 ?White X St?; Ann 38 b.Hoxton; George 18 unm, b.City; Ann 14 domestic servant, b.Bethnal Green; Catherine 12; Mary Ann 11 both b.Bermondsey, Sy; Clara 5 b.Whitechapel, M.sex; Henry 3 b.Shoreditch, scholars; John 1 b.City
: '71cen William Soaper (c1809-?) tailor 62 at 7 Blue Anchor Ln, Bermondsey; Ann 48 both b.Lon; Ann 21 tailoress b.Sy; Clara 16 pupil; Henry 14 errand; John 11 scholar; Richard 4 all b.M.sex; also dau Ann Sullivan 24 widowed tailoress b.Msx grson William Sullivan 5 b.Surrey & Rosina 9m b.M.sx scan
: '71cen Catherine Soper 26 married domestic serv at 12 Kennings Buildings, Rotherhithe; b.Staffs; lodging with Catherine Read 78 widow 'wife' [her grandmother?] & lodger Elizabeth Williams 72 widow, laundress, both b.Lon scan
- - Ruth Eleanor Soper bpt.11 Feb 1872 to John Soper & Kate Soper, Christ Church, Bermondsey, Southwark (b.Jan>Mar 1872 St Olave reg dist [inc Bermondsey] {? & a Ruth Eleanor Stevens b.Apr>Jun 1872 St Olave}) : [not vis as a Soper '81cen] : [but 'b.Bermonsey' not in St Olave dist (but incl.Rotherhithe)]
- - Beatrice Kate Soper bpt.14 Jan 1877 to John Soper & Katherine Soper, Christ Church, Bermondsey (b.Jan>Mar 1877 St Olave); [not vis as a Soper '81cen; but 'b.Bermonsey'] : [Beatrice Kate Reed's m.1895 & 'father John Reed deceased', witness Clara A Foxwell]
- - ?a Clara Ann Read b.Oct>Dec 1879, St Olave; [but 'b.Bermonsey']
: 1877 Ann Dagnot Soper (c1823-1877) d.Jul>Sep 1877, Lambeth, Lon, age 54
: '81cen William 72 head, widower, tailor at 48 Parfitt Rd, Rotherhithe, Sy & Richard son 14 printer both b.City of Lon; also at address; head Catherine Read 32 widow, waistcoat maker & dau Ruth 9 Beatrice 4 & Clara 1 b.Rotherhithe, also lodger Robert Foxwell 23unm [abt.27?] : [Catherine m.Robert next year; genesreuniteddiscussion, 'might use mum's maiden name & 'widow' to cover unm'* & discussion mentions Richard as Catherine's son?] : Seems children b.Read? ?a Ruth Read b,Apr>Jun 1873 Marylebone; ?a Clara Ann Read Oct>Dec 1879 St Olave
: **1882 ?a Richard b.17 Sep 1866 admitted 23 Feb 1882 to Royal Philanthropic School, Redhill, Surrey; Absconded; School's register p.823; wiki : [a reform school with farm, for young London offenders wiki] : [seems absconded before photo taken, like others; perhaps avoiding fate of others of same age sent to Canada or army in 1882; more info available from SHC]
: '91cen William 82 widowed tailor (employee); b.Lon in 4 rooms at 54 Goodson Rd, Brockley, (St James), Deptford, St Paul, Lon father-in-law with Robert Foxwell 37 barge lighterman (employee) b.Rotherhithe; Catherine Foxwell 41 & Foxwell dau,s Beatrice 14 mother's help; Clara 11 all b.Bermondsey, Annie 7 & Kate 5 all scholars both b.Camberwell; scan
: 1897 William Leman Soper (c1809-1897) d.Oct>Dec 1897, St Olave, Lon, age 88
: '01cen Robert Foxwell 48 lighterman on barge, at 171 Trundley St, Deptford; b.Bermondsey; 'Kathleen'* Foxwell 50; Alfred G Foxwell 8 b.Deptford : [also family thread; genesreunited]
: 1917 Catherine Foxwell d.Oct>Dec 1917 Greenwich re dist, age 67 ['Kate' at dau's bpt] & Robert Foxwell d.Jan>Mar 1913 age 58 Greenwich
: *grgrdau of Alfred, son of Robert & Catherine Foxwell, researching genesreunited 2008 & 2016 genesreunited
: James of Toronto, John & Catherine Read's grgrson, also looking for info genesreunited
: ['41cen only Stephen? 24, lab with father Samuel 55-9 carpenter & Barbara 20-4 at 31 Blenheim St, Chelsea, none b.Lon : not vis '51cen]
: [Stephen age 22 transported 7y counterfeiting 1846]
: [Stephen 30, 1y hard labour for recieved stolen wood 1854?]
: ['61cen Stephen 35 at Chelsea, b.Uckfield, Sx & father Samuel 73 carpenter b.Chiddingly, Sx (?sister Barbara 43 b.Uckfield, head at Chelsea) : not vis '71cen]
: [? a Stephen killed in pub brawl Westminster 1868, age 45]
: Soper v Soper, petition by order before the Vice Chancellor of England, Vice Chancellors' Courts, Lincolns Inn; in 'Morning Post' & 'Morning Chronicle' 25 Jul 1845, from newspapers.bl.uk [assume above case?]
: ['41cen Frederick Soaper 40-4 cook at St Marylebone, M.sx; Eliza 30-4, Martha Garnett 20-4 servant Gilbert? Miner? 20-4 servant, William? Badgy? 15 app : scan; not vis '51cen; ?a Frederick Soaper d.Oct>Dec 1845, Marylebone]
: Miss Soper, of 12 Elizabeth St, Eaton Sq in advert requesting loan from wealthy people for 'A G' a young widow with 2 young children, needing a £100 loan for rent & maintenance; 'Morning Post' Jul 1849, scan
: Edward Soper 12 Elizabeth St, St George, Hanover Sq, Westminster house qualified him for Electoral List 1847 & 1851 scan & scan
- '41cen George 25-9 at 196 Back St, Twickenham a j [ournyman] shoe maker; with household of Henry Jones j shoe maker, Sarah Jones 20, Ann 2, Ellen 2m,
- '51cen George 38 in Surrey; Ann 30 b.Suffolk [not now vis in findmypast]
: '61cen George 48 shoemaker at All Hallows London Wall; b.Twickenham; Ann 46 b.Hailsham, Suffolk
: 1868 George Soper admitted by by Mr Graham to Homerton Workhouse, City of London 25 Mar 1868; shoemaker; destitute; last residence 22 St Mary Axe; discharged 16 Apr 1868 at own request; London Workhouse Registers scan & admitted 2 Jun 1868 scan
: 1868 George 59 shoemaker; & Ann 52 no calling admitted from casual ward 18 Jun 1868 to Stepney Workhouse, Tower Hamlets, both married; discharged same day, London Workhouse Registers scan
: 1868 George 59 shoemaker, not able bodied & Ann 52 able bodied; both destitute, admitted 19 Jun 1898 to Homerton Workhouse, City of London; discharged 2 Sep passed to Brentford Union; from London Workhouse Registers scan
: '71cen George 62 shoemaker at 1 Green Lane Cottage, Twickenham; b.Twickenham; Ann 54 b.'Hailsworth', Sfk scan
: '81cen George 68 shoemaker at School Alley Way, Twickenham; b.Twickenham & Ann 60 b.Halesworth, Sfk; scan
: [another shoemaker 81cen Robert George 35 Rotherhithe below]
: 1884 ?a George d.Jan>Mar 1884, age 71 Brentford, [bmd dist inc Twickenham]
: 1888 ??an Annie Soper d.Apr>Jun 1888, Islington, age 70 (bmd)
: George John Soper bpt.9 May 1824 St Mary, Newington, Kennington to John & Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater m.1819, Fleet St; wife Mary b.1824 Norwich to Thomas [Syrett*] a grocer/confectioner b.Norwich & Mary [nee Waters], Mary A Waters Syret b.12 Jul. bpt.30 Jul 1824 St Peter, Mancroft, Norwich* *from genesreunited
- George John Soper (1852-1827) b.Oct>Dec St George, Southwark, London; '01cen 48unm housebuilder; d.1927 Grove Ln, Camberwell, age 75
- Edwin C Soper b.c1855 Southwark [not vis bmd]
: '41cen John 50 builder at Meadow Row, St Mary Newington, Lambeth, Sy, Elizabeth 40, George 17, John 10, Henry 8, Mary Ann 6, Alfred 4, 2 servants Sarah Rowell 14, Hanna Batt 20-4; [Frederick Soper 2 in next house]
: 1847 George John (husband of Mary Ann Waters) a beneficiary of [father-in-law (a seaman)] Thomas Syrett's will (24 May 1847) other beneficiarys Mary Syrett (wife), Mary Ann Waters (dau) & Amelia (dau) Syrett tree
: 1850 ??a G J Soper Secretary of Metropolitan Eye & Ear Infirmary 25 Sackville St; established 1838; From charity directory 1850. source : [jnr & snr only GJS in '51/'61cen]
: '51cen George J 27 builder employing 20 men at 22 Albert Terrace (St George), Southwark, Sy; b.Newington, Sy; Mary A W 26 b.Norwich, Norfolk; with Mary Syrett wife's widowed mother 68 annuitant b.Carson, Norfolk & servant Mary Ann Davis 17unm b.Devon & John Walker 27unm 'builder & partner of Soper' b.Stoke, Dev scan
: a George J Soper 16 Pelham Rd, Brompton; List of Subscribers to Annual report, Art Union of London 1851 google books
: G J Soper & J Walker, builders of Union Sq, Horsemonger Ln, Sy; partnership disolved; in 'Morning Post' 16 Oct 1852, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: 'a G J Soper Honrary Secretary Metropolitan Ear Infirmary, Sackville St; Grand Ball tomorrow at Hanover Sq Rooms, to aid funds; tickets 10s 6d [only G J Soper '41-'81cen]; in 'Morning Chronical' (pub.Lon) 24 Apr 1856, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan; & Hon Sec for Annual ball 1858, scan
: [G J Soper Grove Ln?, Camberwell Green, S Lon, In Builders section of Blowers Builders Directory 1860 source]
: '61cen George J 37, a builder at 1 Grove Ln, Camberwell, Sy; b.Newington, Sy; Mary Ann W 36 b.Norwich, Norfolk, George John 8 & Edwin C 6 both scholars, b.Southwark, Sy also widowed mother-in-law Mary Syrett, formerly wife of a confectioner, b.Cusan, Norfolk & servant Lydia Buster b.Lomestop, Norfolk
: Mr Soper the builder of a mansion 1 Bellevue Park Estate, North Common, Lowestoft. James Yallop 39 bricklayer died after 65ft fall from scaffolding round a stack of chimneys. He married the day before & reported being dizzy; in 'Ipswich Journal' 23 May 1868; scan
: Mr Soper & many others (inc J W Roper) on Lowestoft committeee to look into the reception & entertainment of the volunteers when they arrive. A series of amusements proposed every 10-14 days with aid from Great Estern Railway Co; in 'Ipswich Journal' 27 Jun 1868; scan
: Mary Ann Warters Soper (c1824-1870) d.2 July at Bellvue Pk, Lowestoft, Suffolk, age 46, wife of George John Soper late of Grove Ln, Camberwell, Sy, 'Essex Standard' 15 Jul, from newspapers.bl.uk [d.Jul>Sep 1870, Mutford, Suffolk/Norfolk] : [son d.Grove Ln 57y later]
: '71cen son, George J (c1853-?) a builder's ass 18 [58?] at 2 Belle Vue Park, Lowestoft, Suffolk; b.Camberwell, Lon; with mother-in-law, ? Syrett 89 widow b.Norfolk; scan, (a surveyors ass '71cen) : [George/Josaphine not vis]
: '71cen Edwin joiner 16 at Snape Rd, Tunstall, Suffolk; b.-, M.sx; boarding with Mary Whayman 62 a widowed pork butcher b.Munstall?, Suffolk : 2nd boarder Thomas Whiting unm plumber 27 b.M.sx, lodger James Wilson 39 unm painter & a gen serv 17; scan : [?an Edwin Charles d.Apr>Jun 1872, age 18 in Doncaster, Dor? - Edwin not vis '81cen]
: George John Soper builder of the houses & mortgagor protested against the auction of Belle Vue Park Estate, Lowestoft nrs 11, 12 & 13 Pier Terrace. The bid did not approach anything near the reserve price & not sold; Aug 1873; scan
: George John Soper m.Josephine Newson Jan>Mar 1879, St Saviour, Southwark, Lon (bmd)
: '81cen George J 67 [should be 57] surveyor at 6 Wilby Rd, Camberwell; b.Newington, Sy; wife [new] Josephine 47 b.Clerkenwell & son George J 28 surveyors ass b.Southwark
: '91cen George John 67 builder & surveyor at 6 Wilbey Rd, (St Giles), Camberwell, Lon; b.Newington, Sy; Josephina 58 b.Clerkenwell, Lon; George John 38unm builders assistant b.Southwark, Lon & gen servant Laura Fletcher 14 b.Coventry, Warwicks; scan
: George John d.10 Oct 1896 of 6 Wilby Rd, Grove Ln, Camberwell, Sy; probate London 11 Jan 1897 to George John Soper, surveyor; estate £2847 7s 1d; from Probate Calender, scan : [George J (c1823-1896) d.Oct>Dec, Camberwell, age 73] : [son d.1927 at same address]
: '01cen George J 48unm retired housebuilder at 6 Wilby Rd, Camberwell, Lon; nephew Edwin C 23unm commercial traveller both b.Newington, Lon; step-mother Josephine 67 widow b.Clerkenwell, Lon & cousin Annie Hollands 41unm b.Southwark, Lon scan
: ?a Mary Ann Soper m.Edward Hollands Jan>Mar 1857, Lambeth, Lon
: '11cen George John 58unm retired builder in 8 rooms at 61 Wilby Rd, Grove Ln, Camberwell with widowed mother-in-law b.Camberwell; Jospephine 81 {m.65?y} b.Islington & dom serv Annie Mary Ann Hollands 50unm b.Lambeth scan
: 1915 Josephine Soper (c1827-1915) d.Jul>Sep 1915, Camberwell, Lon, age 88
: son, George John Soper d.29 Mar 1927 of 6 Wilby Rd, Grove Ln, Camberwell, Surrey, SE5; probate Lon 9 Sep 1927 to Thomas George Fellows & Henry Alexander Alexander, clerks; estate £12,380 ; from Probate Calender & London Gazette [d.Jan>Mar Camberwell, bmd, age 75]
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Stephen Soper age 22, 7 Feb 1846, the prisoner came to a shop in Paradise Row, Chelsea & asked for 1d of tobacco & gave a good half-crown. Soper asked for change of 1 of his 2 shillings. The returned coin was counterfeight. he said, "It is not, it’s the one you gave me". I said, "I beg your pardon, it’s not". He took the 2 sixpences & ran out of the shop. Shopkeeper saw him 45mins in a mews. He ran ‘I pursued him some distance & caught him. I asked why he ran away. He said he supposed he might run if he liked. He had run from a mile to two miles in different directions, dodging me about' : Another Paradise Row shop 4 Feb, 9pm. Soper bought a 1d cake offering half-crown. ‘After taking change, another man came in & spoke to Soper who offered him a cake. He said, pay me the 7d you owe me & I’ll buy it myself’. Soper gave a fake shilling for change. ‘I saw it was bad, they both turned & ran. I pursued but lost them’. 23 Feb 1846. Transported 7 years : oldbaileyonline.org : [Stephen got 6m for counterfeiting 1844]
Charles Soper, home 1 Walcot Sq, Lambeth, clerk to Mr Knapp, barrister. He left chambers at 4pm Sat, 9 Oct. Bought 4 pints by 7pm. Had 1½ pints & bread & cheese. He was at the Cornwall Arms by 8pm. Soper shared 4 pints of 6d beer with Charles Combe, a stranger & paid him 6d to take a message to a friend’s house at Princess St to see if he was at home’. After the errand Soper (a gentleman) moved to the pub’s parlour & the landlord asked Combe to leave as he'd followed & was not properly dressed for that bar [perhaps his cap & velvetine coat?]. Soper left with him, both took cab to the friend. He arrived worst for liqueur, went away for 15 minutes & returned not so bad but still not invited in. By 9pm & walking home in hard rain, he was hit in the mouth & mugged of 2 sovereigns by Combe near St Saviour's workhouse. Age 23 transported 7 years 25 Oct 1847. www.oldbaileyonline
: [Charles m.Anne Coveney (ne Adams) 4 May 1865 , Waterloo, Lon]
: '51cen George Soaper 25 engineer at 9 Nelson Rd, (St Thomas), Bethnal Green, M.sx; b.Walworth, Sy; Mary 23 b.Bromley, Kt; Maroe 2 b.Walworth, Sy; Elizabeth 5m b.Bethnal Green; & visitor John Bailey 16 blind cord maker b.Shoreditch; (7 others at address) scan
- Maria Soaper b.Oct>Dec 1848, Newington, Lon; '71cen 22 laundrymaid
- Elizabeth Mary Ann Soaper b.Oct>Dec 1850, Bethnal Green, Lon
- Stephen Hale Soaper b.Jul>Sep 1855, Shoreditch, Lon bpt.12 Aug St Leonards; labourer m.Margaret Bray 1876 Fulham; 2m prison 1880; to Australia for some years; Stephen H Soaper d.1912 Fulham, age 56)
- Mary Ann Soaper b.Jan>Mar 1858, Shoreditch
- Fanny Jane Soaper b.Jul>Sep 1860, Shoreditch
- Susan Soaper b.Jan>Mar 1863, Shoreditch; ?a Susan m.Apr>Jun 1885, Lambeth (to Henry William Abbey or James Baker)
- Alice Soaper b.Apr>Jun 1865, Shoreditch; ?an Alice m.Oct>Dec 1887, Fulham (to Arthur Hawkins or William Markey)
: 1848 at Newington (dau b); & 1850 at Bethnal Green
: 1855 George a sash line maker at 6 Edward St, Shoreditch when son bpt.12 Aug at St Leonards scan
: '61cen not vis
: '71cen George laborer 45, b.Peckham, Sy; at 3 Burlington Cottage, Shortlands, Hammersmith; Maria 43, b.Kent; Maria 22 laundrymaid, b.Walworth, M.sx; Steven 16; Mary 13 both b.Shoreditch, M.sx; Farny 11; Susan 9; Alice 6 all scholars, b.Hoxton, M.sx; Anne 2, b.Southampton, Hants; & Susan Page 28 married laundress b.Islington & Joseph Page 4 b.Hammersmith also Sarah Hunt 62 widow b.Chiswick (& 3 other households in property); scan :
: 1875-6 ?a Maria Soper 45, admitted Homerton Workhouse, City of London Union; 9-16 Aug 1875 no home, able bodied, no shill, discharged at own request, scan; 23-29 Mar 1876 no home scan; charing of 8 Wedsgate St, widow, able bodied 24 Mar-1 Apr 1876 transfered to Bow scan; (connection also on page Maud Soper 46 charing of Homerton 1-10 Apr discharged own request same scan)
: '81cen not vis
: Maria Soaper (c1827-1883) d.Jan>Mar 1883, age 56, Fulham
: George Soaper m.Jane Barber Oct>Dec 1884, Fulham ['11cen said Jane had 4 births, 2 still alive (& m.1855; her 1st m?)]
: '91cen George Soper 65 labourer in 2 rooms at 31 Waterloo St, (St Peters), Hammersmith, Lon; b.Walworth, Lon; Jane 57 charwoman b.Egham, Sy; scan
: George Soaper (c1826-1898) d.Apr>Jun 1898, age 72, Fulham
: '01cen Jane Soaper 66 occupier, widowed charwoman domestic in 1 room at 30 Waterloo St, Hammersmith, (St Peter), Lon, b.Egham, Sy; (& Godfrey family of 9 at address) scan
: '11cen Jane 75 {m.56y, 4 births; 2 alive} widow in 4 rooms at 2 Kingfield [Westfield crossed out], Woking, Sy; b.Sy; housekeeper to Cornelius Stoker 80 widow {m.58y, 12 births, 8 alive} wheelwright (self employed, at home) b.Hants scan
: Jane Soaper (c1833-1916) d.Jul>Sep 1916, age 83, Chertsey, Sy
- William Soper b.Apr>Jun 1848, Pimlico/Chelsea [St George Hanover Sq bmd dist], Lon; carpenter; m.Julia Anne Lowry 1878 Kensington
- Mary Ann Soper b.09 Aug 1849, bpt.4 Nov 1849 at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster scan; b.Jul>Sep St George Hanover Sq; '81cen dressmaker 30unm
- Thomas Soper b.05 Nov 1851, bpt.30 Nov 1851 St James scan; b.Oct>Dec Marylebone
- Elizabeth Soper b.14 Dec 1853, bpt.19 Feb 1854 St James, Piccadilly scan; b.Jan>Mar Marylebone
- Jane Soper b.16 Aug 1857, bpt.13 Sep 1857 St James scan (not vis bmd)
- Sarah Maria Soper b.14 Dec 1859, bpt.26 Feb 1860 St James scan; b.Jan>Mar Marylebone
: '41cen Martha 50-4 ind at 13? Petticat? Ln, Melcombe Regis, Dor; William 18 cabinet maker apprentice, both b.Dorset [so assume not this one]
: 1849 William, cabinet maker of 7 West St, at dau's bpt
: '51cen William 29 cabinet maker at 2 Earl St (Christchurch), Marylebone; Mary Ann 20 both b.Chelsea; William 2 b.Pimlico scan : [10 people in 4 households at address]
: 1851-9 William, cabinet maker/carpenter of 2 Earl St, Lisson Grove at children's bpt
: '61cen William 40 carpenter at 2 Earls St East, St Marylebone; Mary A 36 dress maker both b.Chelsea; William 12; Mary A 11 both b.St Georges H Sq; Thomas 9; Elizabeth 7; Jane 3 & Sarah 1 all b.Marylebone [2 other households in building]
: '71cen William carpenter 51 at 2 Earl St, Marylebone; Mary 45; William 22 carpenter; Mary 21 dressmaker, all b.Chelsea, Lon; Thomas 19; Elizabeth 17; Jane 13; Sarah 11 all b.Marylebone, Lon; scan
: '81cen William 60 pattern maker (E&M)* at 4 Earl St, Lon; Mary A 54; May A 30 dressmaker all b.Chelsea, M.sx [son William had same job title]
: '91cen ??Mary A 66m, servant domestic at 5 Castle Place, (All Hallows), Tottenham, Lon; b.Tottenham, Lon, visiting Mary A Bradford 64 widow charwoman, sister Ether Gaetaurs? 63 widow & sister-in-law Mary A Seymour? 71 all b.Tottenham; scan
: William d.10 Feb 1896 of 4 Earl St, Marylebone, M.sx; probate Lon 13 Apr 1896 to John William Haswell, engraver; estate £292 12s; from Probate Calender, scan : [William (c1821-1896) d.Jan>Mar, Marylebone, Lon, age 75]
: ??a Mary Ann Soper (c1826-1881) d.Oct>Dec, Marylebone, age 55
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H Soper at meeting of silk manufacturers, Spital Sq 5 Aug 1847 to fight legislation to measure silk at more than the established Imperial 36" per yard : from Guardian Newspaper, 28 Aug, scan : [see Henry Soper 1826]
The Gentleman's Magazine p217, Jul>Dec says he was 86 from google book [William 80-4, Sarah 60-4 & William 40-4, St James, Bethnal Gn, Tower Hamlets (1m S), '41cen] : William Sep 1848 Middlesex; London Probate Index
: John Soper 26 Newland St, St George Hanover Sq, Westminster; his house qualified him for Electoral List; 1844-7 scan scan
: James Soper, on 1 of 32 on committee of Magdalen Hospital, Blackfriars Rd, requesting public support as leases that financed it were expiring since it was built 90 years ago. Increased from 40 to 120 penitents with plans to increase to 200; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 24 Mar 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
- Walter John Soper b.Apr>Jun 1850, Whitechapel, Lon
- Catherine Soper b.c1854 Southwark, Sy
: '41cen John Soper 15-19 Thompson Rents, Bishopsgate, St Botolph without, M.sx; Samuel 15-9 both wool carders, Joshua 13, Sarah 11, Lucy 8, all b.M.sx; scan; [brother immigrated US? source]
: '51cen Samuel 25 cloth sorter at 15 George Gardens, St John, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, M.sx; b.City, Lon; Mary Ann 22 bonnet maker; Walter 11m both b.Mile End, Lon; also father-in-law* James Cook 33 painter & glazier b.Spitalfields, Mx; Elizabeth 31 b.Hackney, Msx & James 11 scholar b.Spitalfields scan [this & age correct, but surely impossible?]
: '61cen Samuel Soaper 35 iron turner at 3 Pleasant Place, ?Caslands? Rd, South Hackney; Mary Ann 32 both b.Bishopsgate; Walter J 10 b.Whitechapel & Catherine 7 b.Southwark, Sy, also mother in law Susan Murray 56 seamstress b.Shoreditch
: '71cen Samuel 46 porter 46 at 3 Suffolk St, Three Colt Ln, Bethnal Green, St Matthew; Mary Ann 43 needlewoman; both b.Bishopsgate, M.sx; also in property, household of Wlliam Belady? seaman 26 & wife dressmaker 26 scan : [Walter not vis after]
: 1880 ?an Samuel Soper (c1828-1880) d.Jan>Mar 1880, Mile End, Lon, age 52 : [2y too young, but no other Samuel in Lon '71cen]
: '81cen Mary Ann head, widow 50 boot machinist at Bishopsgate, M.sx, with boarder John Coe 35unm cab driver b.Whitechapel, Msx
: ['81cen alt.???a Marian 56, married, monthly nurse, b.Bishopsgate, M.sex with Thomas P Salt 31 clerk circulation dept, GPOCSO b.Tamworth, Staffs; wife 28, sons 5 & 1m & gen serv 17]
: Henry Soper, one of many delegates at a Royal Commission at New Palace of Westminster, to promote the Exhibition of Works of Industries of all Nations to be held 1851; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 28 Jun 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk
: H Soper, 32 Spital Sq - Metropolitan Local Commissioners in sub-committee representing manufacturers met Westminster Palace 4 Oct about 1851 Exhibition; in 'Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon); scan; & Daily News 24 Oct scan
: H Soper, 1 of abt 40 Metropolitan Manufacturers commissioners at metropolitan meeting, Westminster Palace 23 Oct : from 'Daily News' scan & The Times 24 Oct 1850 : 3/85f : [see Henry Soper 1826]
: Henry Soper 1 of 50 Tower Hamlet Commissioners nominated by Royal Commission for appointments in 'The Era' (pub Lon) 22 Dec1850; from newspapers.bl.uk
: H Soper, filled cabinet nr29 (of 74) in Silk & Velvet Class of British Goods; containing "Figured satin & damask rip & ducape; silk parasols & umberellas & exhibiting parasol silks 'Morning Post' 16 Oct 1851 : scan
: [Joy also researching Thomas & Mary m.1745 : a stonemason, Milford, Wilts '81cen]
'41cen John Soaper 35-9 labourer at Ashton St, Poplar, Lon; Sarah 30-4 both not b.Lon; William 1 b.Lon; also William Taylor 25-9 waterman, Nicholas Taylor 20-4
: John Soper, on 'original protection' list 11am at insolvent debtors court, Portugal St; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 12 Nov 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk
: an Elizabeth (c1796-) discharged by own accord 28 Jun 1850 Christ Church Workhouse, Southwark, age 54; scan : [but above seems like a mother & child]
: '61cen Ann 34 servant at 68 Sale St, Bethnal Green; b.Spitalfields; with Daniel Mahoney 55 b,Ireland, wife Elizabeth 44 b.Spitalfields, M.sx & daus 8 & 1
: '71cen Ann servant 40unm at 18 Sale St, Bethnal Green; b.Spitalfield; lodging with Daniel Mahoney 68 a weaver b.Sidlow, wife silk winder & 2 dau 5 & 15 feather workers all b.Spitalfield : scan
: 1879 ?an Ann Soper age 48 admitted St Mary Workhouse, Islington; 18 Jun 1879; received from Holborn Union, charwoman scan; Liverpool Road Workhouse, same date scan & discharged at own request from Upper Holloway Workhouse 18 Jun scan
: '81cen Ann 50unm servant of all work at 17 Canrobert St, Lon; b.Bethnal Green; lodging with Daniel Mahoney 76 silk weaver b.Ireland; wife Elizabeth 67 mangler; dau 24; scan : [not vis '91cen; her whole life with the Mahoneys, related?]
: 1889? Ann Soaper (c1830-1889) d.Oct>Dec 1889, Mile End, Lon, age 59
connection?? a Barbary Soper d.Jan>Mar 1838, Uckfield, Sx
- Eliza Soper b.Jul>Sep 1843, Chelsea, Lon
'41cen Samuel 55-9 carpenter j. [journeyman?] at 31 Blenheim St, Chelsea, St Luke, Stephen 24 labourer, Barbara 20-4 none b.M.sx with [household head?] Henry Brooker 45 & Maria Brooker 35-9
'51cen; Bartma Soper 31 dressmaker at 2 Athur St, St Luke, Chelsea, M.sx; b.Uckfield, Sx; Eliza 7 b.Chelsea, M.sx scan : (14 in property)
'61cen; Eliza 17, an unm nursemaid, at 3 Argyll Rd, Kensington St Mary Abbott; b.Chelsea; with John Hayes 36 surgeon dentist, b.London, wife, 6 children aged 1-12, a visitor & a housemaid
'71cen; Barbara Soper (c1821-?) 50 widowed dressmaker at 25 Blenheim St, Chelsea, St Luke, b.Uckfield, Sx; (heading 3 other households in property; a nurse & dau, a mason & family 4 young labourers/mason ); scan
'81cen; Barber Sopher asst tailoress, 64unm b.Uckfield, Sx; assistant with Richard Hustwaite 61unm tailor b.Gt Ouseburn, York; Elizabeth Clinton lodger, 70unm needle, b.St George, M.sx
: Barbara Soper (c1817-1881) d.Oct>Dec 1881, Kensington, Lon, age 64
: '41cen Katherine 25 servant, at Walnut Tree Walk, Lambeth, Sy; b,Ireland; with William Souter 40 ind, wife 6 kids 10-18; scan; [transcribed as Tope, believe Soper]
: '71cen Catherine (c1794-?) pensioner 77, b.East Lulworth, Dor at 8 Thorner's Buildings, Southampton, All Saints, Hants; sharing [alms house?] with serperate household Jane Bradwell 75w annuitant, with companion & niece Eliz J Wheatley 22 both b.Walton on Thames, Sy
: Catherine Soper (c1801-1873) d.Jan>Mar 1873, Southampton, Hants, age 72
: sister? a Mary Ann Soper b.29 Apr 1835, bpt.23 Jul 1835 to Charles, pamphlet seller & Ann, of 23 Harp Alley, at St Mary-le-Strand Westminster scan : [not vis '41cen]
: '41cen; Dinah Sofer 60-4 wid?; Museum St, Bloomsbury, St George; with William Alcon 60-4 cabinet maker, Jane Alcon 60-4; scan
: ??Dinah Soper d.Apr>Jun 1853, St Giles, Lon
: ?'41cen; George 45-9 carpenter, Arundell St, Bethnal Green, Dina 43, Maria 21, Catherine 20 all fancy box makers, Matilda 10, George 7, Robert 5, Clare 2, all b.M.sx; 2 other families in household Francis Newbold 32 tailor, Ann 25 silkweaver, Mary 5 : Sarah Wilson 30 silkweaver & Prosala 70; scan
: ??'41cen John Bulgreys? 40-4 dyer? Orchard? Place?, Hackney, St John; Edward Sopher 20-4 labourer, Hannah? 20-4, Ann 13 : scan [but unlikely to be 'Sopher' as it contains an 'i']
: '61cen Edward Soper 41 carpenter Kensington St Mary Abbott, M.sx; b.Paddington; Ann 40 b.Bucks
: 1868 ?an Ann 48 admitted Homerton Workhouse, City of Lon; 11 May 1868, last residence casual; destitute, married; discharged 16 Jul on own request scan : [only Ann of that age '71cen]
: '71cen Edward Soper 52 carpenter at 4 Duke's Ln, Kensington; b.Paddington; Ann 51, b.Bucks; (10 households in property, mostly single lodgers) scan : [not vis '81cen, so assume...]
: 1871 Edward (c1819-1871) d.Oct>Dec 1871, Kensington, Lon, age 52;
: 1874 ?Ann (c1819-1874) d.Apr>Jun 1874, Kensington, Lon, age 55
: '41cen ?a Elizabeth Soper 35 & Ann Soper 29; 2 of 4 servants at Taunton Place, St Marylebone, M.sx with William Lucas 48 medical surgeon, Sophia 36, William 13, Grace Goodchild 20, Joseph Manton 25 & Morgan Dean 19, medical surgeons, also servants Fanny Parjou 24, John Brastifield 18
???'61cen John 50 carpenter at 15 Gloster Row, Shoreditch St Leonard; b.City wife Mary 47 cotton Window, b.Dunstable, Beds & dau Elizabeth 25 laundress b.Cripplegate, M.sex; also grandaughters, scholars, Mary Ann Woodcock 7, Elizebeth Woodcock 5, both b.Bethnal Green & Eliza Woodcock 3, b,Shoreditch
: '41cen James 25-9 servant? at East St, Farnham, Sarah 20-4, Ann 1, George 40-4 ag lab, Elizabeth 50-4
: '61cen George 68, a horsekeeper at Union Workhouse, Farnham; b.Frensham>, Sy & wife Elizabeth 67 b.Farnham; both paupers, Sy; (listed in different areas of workhouse; 83 names listed) : [probably not bor 'Farnham', possibly like 'Favisham'?]
: Elizabeth Soper d.Oct>Dec 1862, Farnham, Sy
: George Soper d.Oct>Dec 1863, Farnham
: ?'41cen George Soper 25-9 a porter at 53-55 Blackfriars Rd, Christchurch, Sy with Daniel Drebhead? linen draper, 32 ass drapers, 4 clerks 8 draper's apprentices, 9 porters inc, housekeeper, 5 female servants
- Hannah Soper b.Apr>Jun 1846, London
- George William Soper b.Apr>Jun 1848, Southwark, St Saviour, Lon
- William Soper b.Jan>Mar 1850, Southwark, St Saviour
: 1854 G Soper linen draper's shopman, Great Guildford St, Southwark, Debters Prison; Insolvant Estates from Gazette 16 Mar : from The County Courts Chronicle 1854 Google Books snippet
: 1855 George, original prisoner', before Commissioner Murphy at 10am, Insolvent Debtors Court, Portugal St; in 'Morning Chronicle' 23 Mar 1855, from news.bl.uk; scan & adjourned prisoner', before Commissioner Murphy at 10am, Insolvent Debtors Court, Portugal St; in 'Morning Chronicle' 3 Apr scan
: ?'41cen George 40-4 compositor? at Little Clarendon St, St Pancras; Clarisse? (Clarissa?) 34; Henry 15-9; Charles 11; Frederick 2; all b.M.sx
: '61cen Henry T 36 printer, compositor at 37 Tavistock St, Westminster St Paul Covent Garden; b.St Pancras; Elizabeth 36 & Elizabeth Ann 16 both b.Staines, M.sx : [not vis '71cen or bmd entries not obvious]
: '61cen James 62, blacksmith at 1 Belle Vue Place, Stepney; b.Padworth, Berks & wife Susantiah 65 b.Southwark, Sy; lodging with William Fuller 45 butcher b.Withaiel, wife 3 children (3-16) : [neither vis '71cen; d.not vis bmd]
Rev James Soper at Union Grove, Clapham, Sy, 1851 : from Post Office Directory
: ?Jane Soper 28 unm servant at 43 Walton Crescent, St George, Hanover Sq, Westminster, M.sx '51cen, b.Armfathey?, Dev; 1 of 6 unm female servants 18-39 (no jobs given) with William Tatton Egerton 44 gent, MP & magistrate; b.Cheshire, wife 39 b.Lon & 3 dau 14-16 [none b.Dev] scan : ['41cen 2 Jane 20-24 Plymouth servants]
: 1850 ?a Frederick W de Liguoro knight, in 1850 found a 1760 musical composition of St. Alphonsus in the Royal Library of the British Museum, Lon (associate of Royal Academy of Naples, hon mem Pontifical Society, St Cecilia, Rome & Philharmonic Orchestra, Venice)
: ?'61cen Jane 37 [unm/m not given] head; dress maker at 83 New Bond St, St George Hanover Sq, b.Devon with 3 boarders, also dress makers, Fanny Wright 18 b.Exeter, Dev: Eliza Gee 18, b.Manchester & Catherine Dighton 20m b.Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire & 2 unm serv Alice Brettenhill 18 b.M.sex & Isaac Norris 16, b.Wilts : [smart address? - if her, perhaps still connected to the MP?]
: 1861 Jane Soper m.Frederick William De Liquoro Jan>Mar 1861, St James, Lon (bmd) [linked by Bond St?]
: 1861 Jane Soper milliner: Frederick William de Liguoro of 66 New Bond St & wife Jane (late Jane Soper, spinster who, before & since her marriage has carried on a milliner business, under her maiden name of Jane Soper), assigned all their personal estate & effects unto trustees James Ellerton & Stafford Northcote of St Paul's Church Yard for the benefit of the creditors 8 Aug 1861; Their accounts presented to solicitor 13 Aug for inspection by the creditors 26 Aug (London Gazette 27 Aug)
: 1902 Jane De Liquoro (c1823-1902) d.Jan>Mar 1902, Islington. Lon, age 79 (bmd)
'61cen : Jane 30unm domestic laundress, 10 Providence Court, St George Hanover Sq; b.Padworth, Berks, visiting household of Mary Sample, 36, widowed laundress b.Longhoughton, Northumberland, 3 daughters (5-9) b.Yorkshire & London & another visiter, (Eliza Spencer, 46unm out of work) & a servant, both b.Norfolk
?a Susannah Soper of Love Lane, City; bur.22 Dec 1850 at Horselydown, St John, Surrey ; undertaker Hawkins; cost 8s; [bur div 2, line 7] (age not given) : scan from non-conformist registers : Susannah d.Oct>Dec 1850, London
'61cen Mary A 77 unm, formerly a housekeeper in family; in 1 Alms House, Hammersmith, M.sx; b.Hampshire; one of 14 unm ladies 66-77 in house
: ??a Mary Ann Soaper m.Jul>Sep 1852, Newington, Lon (to either John Miller, Jeremiah John Riches, William Camp or Stephen Church)
: ?'41cen Richard Soper 15 butcher j [journeyman] at Jubilee Place, Chelsea, St Luke, M.sx; with George Ward 29 butcher wife & son 3 & serv Sarah Robertson 22 : scan
: '61cen Richard 37 painter at 3 Paradise Walk, Chelsea; b.Metfield [Uckfield?], Sx; Harriett 43, an ironer, b.Fulham (1 of 2 households there); [d. not obvious bmd; perhaps Richard d.Jul>Sep 1861 Westminster, Lon?]
: '71cen? Harriot 52 widowed laundress at Sea House Laundry, Park Ln, Broadwater, Worthing; b.Pulham?, M.sx; also ass laundress Susan Mennoke? 24unm b.Styning, Sx; also ass laundress Susan Mennoke? 24unm b.Styning scan : ['81cen not vis; d/m not vis]
: ??'41cen a Sarah Soper 38 at Susanah St, north side, Tower Hamlets, Poplar, All Saints, M.sx; Elera 18, Marth 16, Sarah 12, John 5 (only John & Marth b.M.sx) scan [names may indicate Sopher applicable?]
: ?'61cen a Sarah Soper 64 widowed mother at 26 New St, Poplar; b.Chatham, Kent, with Charles Reynolds 27 labourer b.Gravesend, Kent, wife Sarah 33; Charles 10 scholar; Henry 7; Sarah 7 all b.Poplar [no Reynolds/Soper m.vis bmd] : [not vis '71cen]
'41cen?; a Susan 17 servant at Queen Street (East Side), Plymouth, St Andrew, Dev; b.Dev : [not vis '61cen; ?a Susan Jane Soper m.1853 Plymouth]
'61cen?; John 34 plasterer at 5 Paradise Cottage (St Peter) Hammersmith; b.Ham'th; Susan 35, b.Cambridge; John 10, a scholar; Alice 7; Edwin L 5; Alfred 3; Arthur 1, all b.St Peter, Ham'th :[Charles & Eliza 22 next door]
: '71cen Wm H Soper (c1844-?) on houses, dividends 27 at 31 Linden Grove, Peckham, Camberwell; b.Harwich, Essex; Elizth Chithy aunt 67 houses & dividends b.Wonersh, Sy, friend Sarah Fox 66 annuitant, Lon & 2 servants Cath Sims 38 housemaid b.Weybridge, Sy & housemaid Ann Woodger 30 b.Bromley : scan
: '41cen Arthur 46 tin plate worker, Sarah 42, William 20 tin plate worker, Sarah 15, Ann 13, Arthur 10, Henry 7 : [Arthur m.Sarah bef.1821]
- Richard Robert Soper b.Jan>Mar 1853, St Luke, Lon; '71cen silk weaver
- George Soper b.Jan>Mar 1855, St Luke; 'Georgina' in '61cen [??a Georgina had children in workhouse 1876-8]
- Edward Soper b.Jan>Mar 1856, St Luke; painter; m.Emily Jane Chapman Apr>Jun 1878, Bethnal Green, Lon
- Elizabeth Soper b.Oct>Dec 1860, St Luke, Lon : [i>no unm Eliz or Jane 9 in '91cen]
- - Jane Soper b.30 Dec 1881 Holborn Workhouse [b.Jan>Mar, Shoreditch reg dist] : [dau of Eliz]
: '51cen George 19 appr gold beaters apprentice at 53 Richmond St, (St Johns), Marylebone, M.sx '51cen, b.Chelsea, M.sx; with Richard Fogg 36 gold beater (emp 3) b.Marylebone, wife 33; Thomas Armstrong 18unm b.Scotland scan
: '61cen George Soaper 31, gold beater 2 Lewins Close, St Luke, City of London; b.Chelsea; Jane 38; Richard 19; Georgina 11; Edward 5; Hannah 6 months all b.St Luke
: 1861 ?a Jane Soper 39, admitted St Pancras Workhouse, Camden; 29 Nov 1861, needle worker, discharged to Colnay Hatch 31 Dec 1861 scan : [photo from 1897]
: 1863 ?a Jane Soper ironer age 40, admitted to St Pancras Workhouse by Mr Jaques (as others), at 12:15; 25 Feb 1863 scan : [only London Jane in '61cen]
: '71cen Jane married, 44 no occupation at 8 Hatfield St, Finsbury, St Luke b.Morecombe, Lake, Dor; Richard 18 silk weaver; Edward 15 shop boy; Elizabeth 10 scholar all b.St Luke, M.sx scan : [5 families in property, 19 people]
: '81cen Jane 56 widowed pickle filler at 8a Hatfield St, Lon; b.Dor; seperate household, same address, Edward 25 gen lab; b.St Luke, Lon; Emily 22 brush drawer b.Lon & Robert 1 b.St L; scan
: '81cen Edward 25 gen lab at 8a Hatfield St, Lon [seperate household to mother above]; b.St Lukes, Lon; Emily 22 brush drawer b.Lon; Robert 1 b.St L
: '81cen Elizabeth 21unm gen servant at Old Town St, Dawlish, Dev; b.St Lukes, M.sex; servant with Frederick T Hyne 38 b.Heavitree, Dev ay navy pensioner; wife, dau & father 71 civil servant pensioner & boarder 39 bricklayer
: 1881 Elizabeth (1860-) age c21, C of E, flower maker of 8a Hatfield St, admitted City Road Workhouse, Holborn; 30 Dec 1881 & Jane Soper born, illigitimate; both discharged at own request 14 Jan 1882 scan; scan & scan
: 1886 ?an Edward Soper age 29, admitted City Rd Workhouse, Holborn; 11 Jun 1886 , discharged by MOT scan
: '91cen Jane 66 married, pickle bottle filler [assume acidic & unpopular?] at 3a Hatfield St, (St Thomas Charterhouse), St Luke, East Finsbury; b.Markham Lake, Dor [6 rooms at 3a held 15 in 5 households] scan
: '01cen Jane 73 head, widow [alone] in 1 room at 1 Domingo St, St Luke, Old St, Lon. b.Blandford, Dor; scan
: ?a Jane Soper (c1828-1902) d.Jul>Sep 1902, Holborn, Lon, age 74
: connection? a Mary Eliza Soper m.Thomas Ingram Jan>Mar 1847, London West, Lon (bmd)
children b.St Peter, Hammersmith registered in Kensington dist
- John William Soper b.Apr>Jun 1851 Hammersmith; '81cen 20 plasterer
- Alice Mary Soper b.Apr>Jun 1853 Hammersmith; '81cen 28 laundress; ?d.1895. age 42
- Edwin Charles Soper b.Jul>Sep 1855, Hammersmith; Gunner RA 1871-80; foot injury; ?m.Sarah Haley 1883; '91cen telephone labourer 36 at Newington; '01 bricklayer
- Alfred James Soper b.Oct>Dec 1857 Hammersmith; plasterer & policeman; ?m.Elizabeth Haley Apr>Jun 1885 Fulham; d.1 Apr 1928 Thornton Heath
- Arthur George Soper b.Oct>Dec 1859 Hammersmith; '81cen 22 army reserve
- Frederick Henry Soper b.Jul>Sep 1862 Hammersmith; met policeman; m.Louisa Lydia Robinson 1885; pensioner 1928 when executor to bro Alfred
: ?'41cen John Soper 38 plasterer at Haumdy? Rd, Hammersmith, M.sx; Sarah 35; John 15; Charles 11; Thomas 9; Alfred 8m; all but John snr b.M.sx
: '51cen John Soaper 47 visitor, married, plasterer at Swanswalk Rd, Mickleham, Dorking, Sy '51cen, b.Bristol, Somerset; John Soaper 25 married plasterer b.Whitechapel, M.sx; with 4 other visiting plasterers; William Cheeseman 26 b.Hammersmith; John Davis 51 b.Chelsea; Daniel Sullivan 49 b.Whitechapel & John Sullivan 22 b,Stainsted, Sx scan
: '51cen Susan Soper 26 wife at 3 Foundry (St Peter), Hammersmith, b.Loan?, Cambridgeshire; William Soper 1m son at M.sx, both b.Hammersmith, M.sx; scan : [son not vis if b.1m]
: '61cen John 34, plasterer at 5 Paradise Cottage (St Peter) Hammersmith; b.Ham'th; Susan 35, b.Cambridge; John 10, a scholar; Alice 7; Edwin 5; Alfred 3; Arthur 1 all b.St Peter, Ham'th {a Richard 37 painter at nr.3} : [not 'Paradise', at nr.9 an unconnected baby died of neglect 1866]
: '71cen John plasterer 44, b.Knightsbridge, Lon; at 5 Paradise Cottage, Paradise Row, Ham'th; Susan 45, b.Cambs; John 20 plasterer; Alice 17 laundry maid; Alfred 13 plaster's boy; Arthur 11; Frederick 8 both scholars, all b.Ham'th : scan [family of Charles 40 & wife Eliza 31 at nr 3]
: '71cen Edwin C Soper Gunner nr.2168 7th Brigade Royal Artillery; HQ at Woolwich, Isle of Wight, Gosport & Weymouth; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen ?an Edward Soper [seems Edwin's become Edward] (c1854-?) gunner royal artillery; patient 17, b.Hammersmilth, M.sx; at The Herbert Hospital, Shooter's Hill, Kidbrooke, [by Woolwich Artillery Barracks wiki] page of 25 unm men 17-30, approx 500 patients : scan
: 1873 John at 3 then 5 Paradise Cottages, Kensington & Chelsea & so qualified for electoral list 1873-87 scan; [bro?] Charles at nr.3 1873-87 & [a?] George 1880 [Paradise Cottages not vis www; a Paradise St, Christ Church, Chelse & a Paradise Walk off Chelsea Embankment; 10 terrace houses built 1691 nr Chelsea Hospital gave name to Paradise Row, Paradise Walk nearby filled with cottages by 1813 source]
: '81cen John 54 plasterer at 5 Paradise Cots, Lon, b.Knightsbridge; Susan 55 b.Goham, Cambs; unm children Alice 28 laundress; Edward 26 army pensioner; Arthur 22 army reserve; Frederick 20 metropolitan policeman all b.Hamth; scan : [birth not vis, but an Edward retired Dec 1877 after 10y sevice]
: '91cen John 64 plasterer at 26 Redmore Rd, Hammersmith; b.Chelsea; Susan 65 b.Soham, Cambs; Alice M 37unm laundress b.Hammersmith; scan : [none vis '01cen]
: 1898 ?a Susan (c1826-1898) d.Jan>Mar 1898, Fulham, Lon, age 72
: 1895 ?an Alice Mary (c1853-1895) d.Jul>Sep 1895, Fulham, age 42
: [seems unlikely as no Thomson m.vis after '41cen: ??'41cen, John 60-4 Marlboro Place, Kent Rd, Camberwell, St Giles, Sy; Elizabeth 60-4, Elizbeth 20-4 ind? all b.Sy, 2 servants Jane Abbot 20-4, Ann Ovialt 15-9]
: ['51cen John 73 retired from business, independent, at 12 Carlton Villas, Camden Rd, Islington, M.sex; b.Southwark, Sy; Charlotte 62 & wife & her unm sisters, Jane & Anne Thomson 68 & 64 all b.-,Essex & servant Elizabeth Hayward 40unm b.Bethnal Green : scan]
: [??perhaps the John a broker/merchant of Mark Ln 1813]
: Mr Soper, Consulting & Advising Mine Agency Offices 11 Adam St, Adelphi; ensuring more than the usual run of dividends; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 28 Mar 1851, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [George m.Maria Worsley at Stoke Damerel 1835]