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Marriages and murders in London and surrounding counties
A London weekly column lists weddings in Stepney Limehouse and St Anne’s Limehouse, deaths including Mr William Smith Scaife and Mr Nathaniel Latham, plus local crime notes. It reports highwaymen activity near Finchley Common, robberies in Hatton Garden and Gray’s Inn Lane, smuggling burnings at Cowes, and legal actions in Clerkenwell for grave-robbing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pry Waka Abd Tind
Stepney
Thomas
Liangdan
St. Paul’s
Shadwell
Lucy
Joyce
White-Horse-streer
St. Anne’s
Limehouse
William Gilstone
Anne ‘Stamper
Christ- Church
Surry
William Edwards
Lane
Strahd
Westminster
Aylesoury, Bucks
Marekx
Richard
Henry Fellowes
London
Robert Wright
Penn
Smith
White Horse
Nancy
Gibraltar
Hanover
Bernard Gilli
Royal Hanoverian Foot Guards
Gilli
St. Andrew’s
Jenkins
Gray’s-Inn-lane
St. Alban’s
Wigmoreftreet
Cavendish Square
Bevans
Hatson- Garden
Bishopsgate-Street
Snowhill Boys
Phillis
Gray’s Inn-lane
Fleet-market
Seven Mile
Finchley Common