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From: Bonnie Henderson <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Magdala Road whereabouts 1875
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:33:03 -0700
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Thanks everyone, Imogen, Ken, and Ed for the information on the above. I
really didn't want to assume on my own that Magdala Road could be Magdala
Avenue.

By 1881 this Samuel Williams was in Rotherhithe with his wife's widowed
father. After this he became a headmaster at Cleave's Grammar School in
Yalding for 37 years or so. I've had such fun tracking him.

Thanks again.
Bonnie
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Boyce" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Magdala Road whereabouts 1875


> Hi Bonnie and Imogen
> An overall search of the primary online Map and Street Indexes failed to
> return anything on Magdala Rd as indicated by Imogen
>
> The Dickinson index to the Godfrey London Maps lists two the one of
interest
> is listed for the 1912ed of the Gospel Oak Map (#28) at co-ords 332E 357N
> My 1912ed shows it just the way Imogen describes it.
>
> Out of curiosity I checked the Islington RD Street Indexes to see when it
> was first listed as niether Stanford (1862) or Dickinson list it for the
> earlier edition maps. It's listed in the 1891 and a street search of the
> 1881 shows it to be in full bloom with some 40+ addresses for the
Islington
> location. It is not listed in the 1871
>
> Ken Boyce
> Burnaby
> British Columbia, Canada
> Researching PERRIS of London BOYCE of Herts
> PASCOE, BROWN and WILLS of Cornwall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Imogen Pennell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Lon] Magdala Road whereabouts 1875
>
>
> > Hi Bonnie
> >
> > You'll find its present day location if you look for Magdala AVENUE on
> > Streetmap. The modern Magdala Avenue runs between Dartmouth Hill Park
and
> > Highgate Hill, whereas the original Magdala ROAD ran from Dartmouth Hill
> > Park only half-way to Highgate Hill. Instead it went into a small
> parallel
> > street called Girdlestone Road, which no longer exists.
> >
> > Unfortunately I couldn't find the original Magdala Rd online (eg on
> Motco's
> > 1862 map) but I found it on my 1894 ordnance survey map of Upper
Holloway.
> > The 1869 OS map shows the future Magdala Rd marked only with dotted
lines,
> > so it must have been quite newly built when your gt grandfather moved
> there.
> >
> > You'll notice that Magdala Rd/Ave runs immediately south of the present
> day
> > Whittington Hospital. The 1869/1894 maps show that it was then a
Smallpox
> > and Vaccination Hospital. On the opposite side of Dartmouth Park Hill
was
> St
> > Pancras Infirmary (now also part of Whittington Hospital).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Imogen
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bonnie Henderson" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:39 PM
> > Subject: [Lon] Magdala Road whereabouts 1875
> >
> >
> > > Please would anyone be able to find this address in present day
London?
> > >
> > > 3 Magdala Road, Upper Holloway
> > > Registration District - Islington
> > > Sub-district - Islington West
> > > County of Middlesex
>


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