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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] DRAKE, 12 PRINCESS GARDENS, Hyde Park
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 15:17:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <192.7537b0.295f3124@aol.com>


In message <>, writes
>Hello Listers
>
>I am new to this list and would be grateful for your help.
>
>In the 1881 Census my Great Aunt Elizabeth Ingerson is shown as a servant,
>living at 12 Princess (Prince's) Gardens, Westminster St. Margaret, London.
>The head of the household is shown as William R Drake Knt Solicitor aged 63
>born in Holborn.
>
>Is anyone out there researching the Drake family and if so is William R Drake
>one of yours? Does anyone know anything about 12 Princess Gardens.
>
>Also can anyone tell me what Knt stands for? King's Notary?
Normally, Knight. If it is written immediately after the surname, that
is what it mean. However, if it appears further down the line of the
entry, it could be KNT for Kent.
There is Prince's Gardens, a square off Exhibition Rd in Knightsbridge
I have now checked, and this is the location where your Elizabeth was
- nice respectable area of moderate sized town houses, where quite a
number of legal people seemed to have had their London houses.
And I have a strong supcicioon, from the inaccuracy of the
transcription in this area, that William Drake was a Ret. (retired)
Solicitor, not a knight.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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