fleet street 1830


Fleet Street, looking westwards, in 1830. Slightly left of centre is the famous church clock of St Dunstan's in the West overhanging the street. A number of our ancestors are recorded in the church registers. Beyond is the Temple arch. The shop of Clark and Weatherley in the foreground must be very close to the junction with Chancery Lane where George Frederick Gaubert had his house just yards away at 119. Below 1896

fetter lane from holborn
fetter lane 1875
chancery lane 1896
Fetter Lane viewed from the Holborn and looking southwards towards Fleet Street. This image looks earlier than its adjacent neighbour of about 1875 Fetter Lane about 1875
Chancery Lane 1896 looking southwards towards Fleet Street. The new public records office is passed the shops on the left-hand side. George Fredericks home and business at No.119 would have been further down, round the bend, on the right-hand side.
1789 chancery lane


chancery lane 1880

chancery lane
1789 Chancery Lane looking northwards from the junction with Fleet Street.
About 1880 - 120, Chancery Lane, the house of Izaak Walton. George Frederick Gaubert and his family lived, and had his legal stationary business, at 119 here in the early 19th. century just a few doors up on the left hand side
This painting appears to have been done after 1880 as the building on the extreme left seems more modern than its predecessor in the drawing to the left.
9 ashby road
9 Ashby Road
147, leadenhall street
regent street
9 or 10 (both numbers are recorded), Ashby Road, Islington. The 1851 census records this house as the home of Edward and his wife Elizabeth together with their son Edward, a bookseller's assistant.
147, Leadenhall Street. George Frederick Gaubert was recorded in 1847 as a merchant of this address although his home address was given as 2, Hawley Road, Hornsey Road.
Regent Street 1900 to 1909 - the 1851 census records Charlotte Gaubert at No.148. The 1871 census records Stephen Gaubert, chemist and druggist, and his wife Clara and family living at No. 304
All Souls langham Place
st martins lan e 1820
All Souls, Langham Place - in 1859 Mrs Mary Gaubert was a lodging-house keeper at No.28. The 1861 census records her together with sons John and Arhur both dentists at the same house. She was recorded here until 1871
St Martin 's Lane c. 1820. David and Sarah Gaubert once lived (before 1780) next door to No.20, the 'Porto Bello' tavern (see MarriagesDavidSarah).
35 welback street
lawrence lane 1930
doctors common about 1894
33, Welbeck Street. Would have looked the same as its neighbour at No. 35 to the right. It was where Anna/ Alice (?) Popoff wife of Reverend Basil Popoff (Popov) died. The address of George Gaubert in 1861 when he acted as executor of John Peter Gaubert
About 1930 - Lawrence Lane where Edward Gaubert had a boot and shoemaking business in 1839
Doctors Common about 1894. The buildings are awaiting demolition. In 1783, Stephen the son of Peter Gaubert of George Court, Doctors Common, was apprenticed to John Jefferson, jeweller of nearby Fleet Street.