Comments on: Adam Dant’s Hackney Treasure Map https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/21/adam-dants-hackney-treasure-map/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 09 May 2014 22:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/21/adam-dants-hackney-treasure-map/#comment-325779 Fri, 09 May 2014 22:53:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=38923#comment-325779 I cannot add anything about the HOLMES or CROOKS but my great grandfather had a florists and garden contractors business in Upper Clapton Road, and a nursery garden elsewhere in Clapton, exact address unknown. The shop was, I am told, rather grand with a fountain and ferns inside, and great grandfather, Owen Charles GREENWOOD, supplied flowers to theatres in London. His son, Stanley Fielder Greenwood, took over the business after Owen Charles died in 1936.

]]> By: Mike Welch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/21/adam-dants-hackney-treasure-map/#comment-235867 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:36:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=38923#comment-235867 “Mr Holmes’ Pleasure Gardens etc.”
The ‘Mr Holmes’ may refer to a relative of my 3rd gt/grandmother Mary HOLMES who lived in this area after she married John Welch in St John’s Church, Hackney. Mary née CROOK is also possibly related to the Parish Clerk of the time, Benjamin CROOK, a man with the same name (but not the same man) as her grandfather from Devizes.
A William Henry HOLMES, a haberdasher, and his family, also lived in Hackney at the same time & could be a relative of Mary, maybe brother or cousin, and of course be related to either and/or both Benjamin CROOK’s.
Further first name coincidences within the HOLMES & CROOK families in Hackney around this time does also suggest (but not prove) these may related branches of the same families.
Maybe other interested descendants of any of these people could add some more flesh to the bones of this excellent historical treasure map by Adam Dant?
Also maybe descendants of any of the other people named on Mr Dant’s map of old Hackney could add further interesting information surrounding the inhabitants at that time?

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/21/adam-dants-hackney-treasure-map/#comment-22495 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:07:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=38923#comment-22495 It’s Adam Dant’s maps that are the treasures, may he do many more.

]]> By: Undine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/21/adam-dants-hackney-treasure-map/#comment-22449 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:27:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=38923#comment-22449 I live in a neighborhood where the oldest house dates from about 1950.

You have no idea how I’d love to live in an area that can boast a map like this. Buried treasure, indeed.

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