tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post2301567967105035268..comments2024-02-29T06:03:35.483-05:00Comments on Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections: Map of early modern LondonJDRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471656063812824731noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-81607155937332868632016-07-16T01:37:36.109-04:002016-07-16T01:37:36.109-04:00I was able to locate the location of the pub my gr...I was able to locate the location of the pub my grandfather's younger brother ran during WWII, after which he was awarded the honourary Freedom of the City of London for being a Fire Guard Commander. The pub was at the corner of Fleet Street and Fetter Lane, and started out in the 16th and 17th centuries as a coffee house, where Samuel Johnson is said to have visited. Cheers, BTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-81251133300342576492016-07-15T02:08:19.823-04:002016-07-15T02:08:19.823-04:00Like you, John, I have no reason as yet to believe...Like you, John, I have no reason as yet to believe that I had ancestors living in London prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, but I do know that one of my great-great-great-great-grandfathers was a warden of St Botolph Aldgate and using a kind of triangulation by locating St Botolph's, Houndsditch, and Brick Lane, I believe I spy the country lane that later became Petticoat Lane, Gail Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251588716393212525noreply@blogger.com