Comments on: In Search Of The Boss Of Bethnal Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 06 May 2024 20:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lin Renvoize https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/#comment-1571138 Mon, 06 May 2024 20:25:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150384#comment-1571138 Ah what a couple of lads those two were!
Proud to count, Peter Renvoize as my ancestor. Fortunately the verbal family history of how, where and when we came over from France has been passed down the generations. Tony Morey we do indeed have a family tree and it is documented.
Just a few years ago the old boys from the old Grammer school site
at Bethnal Green invited me and my now husband Nick to Parmiter’s schools
annual ceremony and at this time it’s restoration of the family headstone.
We joined the old boys and school up the road at the museum. Stories
were swapped of what the chaps had got up to back in the day.
And it was wonderful to spend our time with them. They all seemed so
happy to meet us. Before we left they vied to give
me an old version of their Renvoize house school tie.
On returning home I passed this on to my father. Whom proudly wears it on many a special occasions to this day.

]]> By: Tony Morey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/#comment-1482456 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:57:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150384#comment-1482456 My mother was an ancestor of Joseph Merceron via his great nephew Frederick who died just before the legacies were distributed. The superb book does refer to him but does not explain precisely who were his mother and father.

It is a pity that there was no Family Tree. Can anyone help me please?

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/#comment-1110977 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:55:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150384#comment-1110977 In reply to Martin Palmer.

This was the one and same Peter Renvoize

]]> By: Martin Palmer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/#comment-1110976 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:54:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150384#comment-1110976 One of the founders of Parmiter’s Grammar School, my old school, was a Peter Renvoize, and Renvoize was, and is, the name of one of the school’s houses. In the school’s website it says “Under the terms of his Will, Peter Renvoize bequeathed a substantial sum to the Foundation on his death in 1842 and hoped “that the trustees and their successors will not object to keep my family vault in Bethnal Green church yard and the tomb thereof always in good repair and condition”.
So was this Peter Renvoize a descendent of Joseph Merceron’s associate?

]]> By: Jan Toms https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/09/in-search-of-the-boss-of-bethnal-green/#comment-1110889 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:34:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150384#comment-1110889 What a tempting taster for this interesting biography.

It reminded me of the Tony Hancock sketch “Lady, Don’t Fall Backwards,” where the last page of an exciting story is missing.

Good luck with the book.

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