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West India Dock Road, Pennyfields , or Limehouse Causeway?
I don’t know if it’s right, and I’ve only ever flown into Heathrow to take the M4 to Wales, but maybe Southwark? I don’t know if Southwark is right, but it definitely is a section of London.
This is killing me!
I’m a English History major from way back and know I could find this out for you but am watching House of Cards so can’t look it up right now. I even have a book that is specifically about the history of London....
May I get back to you tomorrow AM?
Would you like the info in private mail?
Happy to help if I can....
Before or after the Great Fire of 1666 and reconstruction of London?
My guess would be Wapping, Ratcliffe, and Limehouse.
You’re talking about sailors who have been out to sea for a while, so also look for wherever the prostitutes were.
I would start by looking where all the port authority buildings were. They usually are at the center of the port. Just find which building was being used at the time and what the neighborhood is was in.
The port today is very similar to Savannah Georgia, where as the whole river is used. They now have separate docks for ro-ro, containers, grains, oil, and cruise ships.
” the late 17th century” before or after the great fire of 1666?
This is a link to the center that was once the East India Company’s Chapel, St. Matthias, Poplar. You may find it useful.
http://www.stmatthiascommunitycentre.com/history.jsp
You might look around Blackwall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall,_London or near the mouth of the River Lea. Between there and the City is Limehouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse
Both areas would have survived the Great Fire.
I think upthread someone has already mentioned the areas across the river.
Wapping would be a good bet.
See:
A Plan Of The City’s Of London,
Westminster And Borough Of Southwark;
With The New Additional Buildings.
Anno, 1720.
http://mapco.net/senex/senex.htm
Plan des Villes de Londres et de Westminster et de leurs Faubourgs avec le Bourg de Southwark.
Par de Fer Avec Priv du Roy 1700
http://mapco.net/london/1700london.htm
Sir Christopher Wren’s Plan For Rebuilding The City Of London After The Dreadfull Conflagration In 1666.
http://mapco.net/london/1666wren.htm
A Plan Of The City And Environs Of London As Fortified By Order Of Parliament In The Years 1642 & 1643.
http://mapco.net/london/1642london.htm
London and Environs Maps and Views
http://mapco.net/london.htm
It may be more a question of where such middlings did not live, and whether the late 17th century is before or after the 1666 fire and plague.
It's very much a matter of 1. the level of connection or dependency on the Crown, following the Restoration, the nations traded with and where those nations stood (e.g. the Dutch, during the wars with England during after Charles II), and 2. their wealth.
It's too simplistic, perhaps, and obvious, too, but I would have to suggest Pepys diary, all of which is now online, together with the incredible collections of maps now available at our fingertips. There are a few of the latter showing the old St. Pauls, for example, which include the regions as context.
My ancestor who migrated to the Jamestown area from
England was a ship’s carpenter and lived in the Wapping area.