Known Addresses of Anthony Clarke Cheeper / Clarke


This page contains a list of the addresses we're aware of as being the man's locations of residence, and photos of a small number of them as they appear today, c. 105-170 years later. The matter is complicated by:


Photos we've gathered – click on them for a larger version

32 Myddleton Square,
near The Angel
(Birth, 1837)
St Helen's York
Baptisms of Children
5-7 (1870)
30 St Paul's Square,
York (1871-73)
St Paul's Square,
southern side
282 Ivydale Rd, Brockley, Lewisham
(1891-97/98)
Destroyed 1941
27 Oliver Grove,
South Norwood,
Croydon
(1898-1901)
10 Lindal Road,
Brockley,
Lewisham
(1904)
4 Vyner St,
York
(1907)

Consolidated List of Addresses – 41 known

Childhood and Youth (aged 0-21):

  1. 32 Myddleton Square, near The Angel [Photo above], in Pentonville, North London (birth, 1837)
  2. No 1 Barnsbury Villas, Liverpool Tce, Islington (1841 Census, aged 3)
  3. ? (1841-1858)

With 1 – Catherine Spilsbury (aged 21-40):

  1. 1858 – "Southwark Norwood" (vague, but south-central London) – marriage certificate
  2. 1959-60 – Clifton Villas, Darnley Road,Gravesend (Kent) – child 1's baptism, death; child 2's birth
  3. 1861 – 11 Ivy St, Birkenhead (Cheshire) – Census
  4. 1862 – 51 and/or 57 Cleveland Rd, Kingsland, Islington (North London) – birth of child 3, bankruptcy
  5. 1863 – Crawley, East Grinstead (Sussex) – child 4's birth
  6. 1863 – Seaford (Sussex) [where was this taken from?]
  7. 1865 – 20 Wyndham St, West Plymouth (Devon) – child 5's birth
  8. 1867 – Main Street, Aston (Birmingham) – child 6's birth [no such street has been found]
  9. 1869 – 16 Upper Gloucester St, North Dublin (Ireland) – child 7's birth
  10. [1870 – St Helen's York – baptisms of Children 5-7 [Photo above] ]
  11. 1871 – 44 Annaken’s Court, Blake Street, St Wilfred, Bootham, York – baptisms of child 5 and 7, census, child 8's birth
  12. 1871-73– 30, Saint Paul's Square, St Mary Bishophill Junior, York [Photo above] – child 8's death, child 9's birth
  13. 1877 – 28 Crown Rd, Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, on the coast north of the Bokenham seat in Southwold) – child 10's birth
  14. 1877-78 – 83 Trafalgar Terrace, Great Yarmouth (but there appears to be no such Terrace, and the three streets in the town that bear the name Trafalgar appear too short to contain a no.83)

With 2 – Mary Wanless (aged 36-45):

  1. 1873 – Kenilworth Terrace, Notting Hill, Kensington Town – child 1's birth
  2. 1877 – 32 St Mary's Rd, Willesden (West London) – child 2's birth
  3. ??Brentford
  4. 1879-81 – Grosvenor House, Ealing – child 3's birth, Census
  5. 1882 – 13 Nield (?) or Frisk (?) Road, Lambeth(?) – Mary's death

With 3 – Emma Terry (aged 45-53/61):

  1. 1882 – Sidcup, Kent (on the ESE edge of London) – marriage
  2. 1882 – Welton Garth, Sidcup, Kent – child 1's birth
  3. 1884-86 – Helstonleigh, The Avenue, Berrylands, Surbiton (Surrey) – child 2 and 3's birth
  4. 1889 – 4 Braxfield Rd, Brockley, Lewisham (the new southern outskirts of London)
  5. 1891 – 3, Downs View Villas, Beach Street, Deal (southern coast of Kent) – Census
  6. (1901) – Churchill Rd, Gravesend, Kent – Census, Anthony not present

With 4 – Kate Davidge (aged 46-67/70):

  1. 1883-85 – Swansea – birth 1
  2. 1885-1890 – 24 Edwards Tce, St John, Cardiff – baptism 1, births 2-5. Laughingly called 'Shrotonville' on birth cert 3. Kate grew up beside Shroton House, but probably in a shed ...
  3. 1891-97/98 – 82 Ivydale Rd, Brockley, Lewisham [Photo above] (probably the longest time, that he called one place home, at least in his married lives – although he appears to have had two homes for some of that time ... – and where our grandfather, Willie Tony, was born) – Census 1891, births 6-8
  4. 1897/98-1901/02 – 27 Oliver Grove, South Norwood, Croydon [Photo above] – birth 9, birth 10, Census, death of 10. (Anthony had married his first wife in South Norwood, 40 years previously)
  5. 1901/02 - 1903 – 25 Bartram Rd, Brockley Kent (800m east) – enlistment of 2
  6. 1904 – 10 Lindal Road, Brockley, Lewisham (600m east) [Photo above] – birth 11

With 5 – Amy Clarke (aged 64-74/77):

  1. 1901? – Not yet co-habiting with Amy? When she registered Lily's birth in March 1901, she was with her parents at 24 Bensham Lane, Croydon (2 miles from Anthony's household with Kate Davidge) - child 1. Amy and Lily haven't been found in the April 1901 Census
  2. 1902 – 25 Carlisle Rd, Romford (outer NE London) – child 2
  3. 1905 – 89 Union Terrace, Gillygate, York – child 4
  4. 1907 – 4 Vyner St, York [Photo above] – child 5
  5. 1910-11 – 74 Broadfield Rd, (then in Ecclesall Bierlow and/or Heeley), Sheffield - child 6 birth death, Census

Decline (aged 74/77 to 80):

  1. 1916 – workhouse, York
  2. 1918 – Central Hotel, York – death
  3. York Cemetery – Grave Number 20120, coordinates b 39, a "Public Grave with 10 occupants" including "2 unregistered stillbirths"

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Created: 17 Aug 2009; Last Amended: 29 Nov 2011, 14 Jan 2017, 1 Mar 2017