Comments on: John Boulderson, A Limehouse Mariner

By: John Raymond

John Raymond — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:34:47 +0000

John Phillips Boulderson’s history is given on a web page I uploaded over a decade ago to: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~jray/boulderson/index.htm. In the children section there is a link to a page for son Joseph who was for 20 years years until his death in 1828 Master Attendant of Shipping at the East India Company.

By: Waterproof enclosure

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By: Gillian Tindall

Gillian Tindall — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:09:30 +0000

That section of the Rocque plan shows Limehouse rather than Stepney, so there is not likely to have been a connection with the Stepney Meeting House. Earlier maps, the 17th century Restoration ones and the Elizabethan one, do not go that far east – reasonably, since the whole of what was to become the East End then lay well outside London.
`Sermon Lane’ (still called that in the early 19th century) was a main route to St Anne’s Church, Limehouse, so the old name probably derives from that. Later in the Victorian era, when Commercial Road had been constructed and became the main route to the church, overtaking old Rose Lane, the origin of `Sermon’ had presumably been forgotten – hence the verbal change to `Salmon’, something many dwellers in Limehouse might have been more familiar with than sermons!

By: paul loften

paul loften — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:18:43 +0000

Shiver me timbers, if ’twere I that had to man one of those there privateers it would take no less than a dozen of those black hearted scoundrels to have press ganged me. T’is no place for me with the main sails so stain’d with blood . Fair makes me tremble in me boots, it does

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:52:55 +0000

Thanks for this fascinating piece! From the Rocque plan, it looks as though Salmon Lane used to be Sermon Lane? Any connection to the Stepney Meeting??? (https://bit.ly/3hRXbgd)

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:58:27 +0000

The author had me at “hamlets clinging to the banks”. Thank you for this wonderful/personal history and vivid re-telling of shipwrecks, mariner’s lives and loves, and tales of “defending the post to the last”. I especially enjoyed the 1755 map — one of the most impressive maps I have seen here, with the possible exception of Adam Dant’s.

Hurrah and huzzah.
Stay safe, all.

By: Penelope Gardner

Penelope Gardner — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:58:36 +0000

Very nice. I often stay @ St Katherines Foundation and walk the Thames beach. I do find find that the development has not been sympathetic to the area. To many dwellings sold to to absent or transient renters. Too many imported locals who know little of the old ways. The destruction of the Isle of Dogs is the graveyard of the common man.It was always dump, but it’s now quite horrible. Here’s to its ruin and to new diverse life from its broken glass and rusted girders. Not in my time,sadly.