Hello Shirleymay.from what i can make out David and James Hopkins were his executors.i dont know how he knew them.this was another part that names them.Hello Deb, This is last Will & Testament of John Tonks. I found the writing easy to read, have been researching my Tree for over 50yrs. Who are David & John Hopkins?
There was Richard Pitt head of the house, his wife Lydia Pitt, Richard's father and mother William and Elizabeth Pitt, brother and sister in law Harry and Nancy Humpage from new Jersey, a cousin Benjamin Pitt from London and Richard's kids, George William, Nelly and Lydia Pitt. Old Bill Pitt was born in 1819. There were very many William Pitts in the West Midlands in those days, and I think many were related too.could you tell us the name of your ancestor in Blake lane? On the 1881 census, for all the ones I can find in Blake St do not seem to have numbers attached
2 Brighton Place would not have been the same as 2 Blake Lane. It looks as if there were 4 cottages built as Brighton Place. One of which has the sign on it. They would, I think have been 1, 2, 3 and 4 Brighton Place. From the map the house which is currently number 2 Blake Lane would not have existed. (The only reason I know this is because I live in a house which was once number 3 of a row of named cottages).
I have ringed in red the houses I think were called Brighton Place on the 1887 map
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When I was a child my parents had friends who lived in Blake Place. A terrace row of old houses. I don’t recall anywhere called Blake Street just Blakeland st running parallel to Blake Lane. On the photo you can see the footprint (green arrow) of the former methodist church. The top right extended oblong used to be where there was a Sunday School Hut behind the row of terraced houses and at the rear of the church.In the 1879 PO diectory the houses are listed like this - only 3 occupants listed for Brighton Place. Blake Cottage is marked onthe map.
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By the way, I would just like to point out that it is the 1891 census which has them living at Brighton Place not the 1881. Took me quite a while to find the entry.These 1890 maps confuse me, my ancestors great great grandad and tribe lived at number two Brighton Place, Blake Lane in 1881 per that census,
Thanks for your trouble, sorry I had the wrong year. I think you're right and in the 1881 census they were all in Denbigh street.By the way, I would just like to point out that it is the 1891 census which has them living at Brighton Place not the 1881. Took me quite a while to find the entry.