Sydenham Hill Road 1861

[1kitikat]

Can anyone help please?

The 1861 census quotes my great grandfather William Thomas Hall as a footman working at 49 Sydenham Hill Road for a Charles Davidson, Barrister in Active Practice, his wife Mary Elizabeth and Frederick George Davidson, brother, solicitor. I could not find 49 last week but was told by a gentleman leaving No. 41 that a barrister had lived in No. 41 around that time. He suggested No. 49 could have been lost in the war but according to the online Bomb Damage maps, it wasn't damaged.

Does anyone know where No. 49 was (somewhere in the trees?), and was it bomb-damaged? Or has the road been renumbered?

And has anyone heard of Charles Davidson?

I would very much appreciate any help. Thank you.

Cheryl Hutchins

[Steve Grindlay]

Charles Davidson lived at The Grange, 20 Sydenham Hill for some 40 years. The house was on the site of St Clements Heights, on the corner of Wells Park Road.


Incidentally, "49" is not a house number but the schedule number, identifying the form that the enumerator left at each household.

[1kitikat]

Very many thanks for this information. And especially as I did not know that the number 49 does not refer to a house number!

I found out that Charles Davidson was a member of the Inner Temple and wrote a book on conveyancing in 1845.

Thank you once again.

Cheryl Hutchins