This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
News from London and Ireland Afloat and Ashore
Almanac style notices of naval appointments at Chatham and Plymouth, a vicarage transfer in Cumberland, a Dublin marriage of Robert Sewart to Lady Conway, deaths in Chelsea and Kent, stagecoach accident in Farringdon, fires in Portman Square and Wanage, a Temple arrest escape, a lighterman fined for Watermen’s charges, Prince Henry Frederick in town, Dolphin’s provisioning for southern voyages, Genoa watchtowers under Paoli, Ascot races won by Castaway, a lord’s horse rescue at Datchet Bridge, obituaries and civic letters on Irish septennialParliament push and London administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mywood
Oltgomery
St.Adaph
Admiralty
Barclay
Chatham
Samuel Tilley
Bellona
Plymouth
George White
Snowdon
Cumberland
Carlisle
Dublin
Robert Sewart
Sarah Conway
Hertford
Ireand
Sarah Magdalene Bellie
Cheney Row
Chelsea
Watermens Company
Livyn
Prince Henry Frederick
Windsor Lodge
Dolphin
Genoa
Paoli
Ascot
Duffle
Castaway
Datchet-bridge
Thames
Preston
Feversham
Kent
George Sykes
Rayleigh
Essex
Canterbury
Arthur Ashley Sykes
Bartholomew
Lord Cobham’s Head
Islington Road
Mr. Bartholomew