Richard Hall

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

It is possible that the burial of a Richard Hall, age 37, on 27 March 1805 at St Botolph Bishopsgate was his.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Henrietta Johnson. Married 31 August 1786 at St Mary’s, Newington, Surrey.

The marriage is recorded in the parish register.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Richard Hall (baptized 1 July 1787 at St Andrew's, Enfield, Middlesex).

Henrietta Hall (baptized 12 April 1789 at St Andrew's, Enfield - died 28 July 1867) married John Stuttard 26 March 1815.

Benjamin Ambrose Hall (baptized 26 June 1791 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire - buried 20 July 1857 in Tor Mohun, Devon) married Elizabeth Snelling Drew 30 December 1824.

Henry Newgent Hall (born 11 February 1793, baptized 6 March 1793 privately, recorded at St Mary at Hill, London).

Thomas Hall (born May 1794, baptized 1 June 1794 at St Botolph Bishopsgate, London).

Emily Martha Hall (born 28 June 1796, baptized 27 July at St Andrews's Undershaft, London - buried 20 August 1796 at St Andrew's Undershaft).

Charles Columbus Hall (born 24 April 1798, baptized 20 May 1798 at St Andrew's Undershaft, London).

Evidence

Land tax:

Given below are what appear to be the land tax records for Richard Hall. The property he was renting appears to be on St Mary Axe, opposite St Andrews Undershaft, where he had children baptized in 1796 and 1798. The rental being paid is fairly low for the neighbourhood.

1797 Lime Street Ward

St Mary Axe Fourth Precinct

[Rent] 10 Richard Hall [Assessed] 2 - -

1798 Lime Street Ward

St Mary Axe Fourth Precinct

[Rent] 9 Richard Hall [Assessed] 1.16.-

1803 Lime Street Ward

St Mary Axe Fourth Precinct

[Rent] 9 Richard Hall [Assessed] 1.16.-

Richard Hall was a witness at the 1802 marriage of his sister-in-law Emily Johnson to William Martin Luson.

From the Holden Directory, London, 1802:

Hall, Richard, statuary, 64, St. Mary Axe

References

Richard Hall - Henrietta Johnson, Marriage registration no. 874 (31 August 1786), Southwark, Newington St Mary marriage registers, 1786, page 302; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 March 2014), citing London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mary, Newington, Register of marriages, P92/MRY, Item 017.

Chesthunt, Hertfordshire parish registers [digital images on Findmypast.co.uk, accessed 27 December 2015].

London Metropolitan Archives, St Andrew, Enfield, Baptisms, 1782-1790 (digital image on Ancestry.com accessed 10 February 2015)

London Metropolitan Archives, St Mary at Hill, Composite register: baptisms and burials, 1558-1812 (digital image on Ancestry.com accessed 10 February 2015)

London Metropolitan Archives, St Botolph Bishopsgate, Composite register: baptisms and burials, 1780-1802 P69/BOT4/A/004/MS04518, Item 001 (digital image on Ancestry.com accessed 10 February 2015)

London Metropolitan Archives, St Andrew Undershaft, Register of baptisms and burials 1771-1812 P69/AND4/1/002/MS04108 (digital image on Ancestry.com accessed 10 February 2015)

London Land Tax Records. London, England: Metropolitan Archives. Digital images on Ancestry.com, accessed 2 January 2016.