Crown Street

Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 12 October 1839

Died : Suddenly, on the 11th inst., in Crown Street, Mr George Short, fishmonger, aged 53 years.

1841 Census

No house numbers on  records

Dwellings separated by double spacing

John Ballard : Lodging House keeper : 88 yrs

Mary Taylor : Nurse : 40 yrs

Jane Nevan : Cook : 35 yrs

James Humber : Tinman : 50 yrs

Charlotte : Needlewoman : 45 yrs

Rebecca Davis : 40 yrs

Eliza Wilkins : 20 yrs

Benjamin Bates : Labourer : 73 yrs

Hannah : 73 yrs

John Boddy : Blacksmith : 52 yrs

Elizabeth : Needlewoman : 40 yrs

John : 11 yrs

Charles : 1 yr

Elizabeth Teake : 40 yrs

John : 11 yrs

Joseph : 5 yrs

Daniel : 2 yrs

Thomas : 3 yrs

James Brindley : Tailor : 75 yrs

Elizabeth : 57 yrs

James : Tailor : 50 yrs

James Bates : 30 yrs

John Duffield : Victualler : 30 yrs

Maria : 25 yrs

James : 1 yr

Eliza Cotton : 20 yrs

Mary Bowyer : 20 yrs

Sarah Padington : 15 yrs

John Wean : Seaman : 20 yrs

Richard Hobbs : Waterman : 65 yrs

Eleanor : 60 yrs

Will Chivers : Bricklayer : 25 yrs

Frederick Glover : Printer

Will Harris : 31 yrs

James Burser : 5 yrs

Jane : 28 yrs

Elizabeth : 2 yrs

Henry Hewett : Mason : 24 yrs

Philip Gayland : 19 yrs

Eliza Smith : Washerwoman : 30 yrs

Jane : 14 yrs

Mary : 4 yrs

George : 7 yrs

Benjamin Jones : Navy : 50 yrs

Hannah : 45 yrs

James Ramsted : Royal Marine : 25 yrs

Charlotte : 20 yrs

George Osborn : Royal Marine : 25 yrs

Harriett : 20 yrs

John Morley : Navy : 50 yrs

Margaret : 40 yrs

Margaret : 18 yrs

John : 16 yrs

Susan : 15 yrs

Mary : 10 yrs

Henry : 11 yrs

John Binford : Tailor : 60 yrs

Giles Heaver : Bricklayer : 27 yrs

Hannah : 30 yrs

Samuel Burgess : Army : 25 yrs

Jane : 25 yrs

Mary Burjin : Lodging House Keeper : 55 yrs

Mary Hilsfred : 35 yrs

Jane : 12 yrs

Harriett : 1 yr

George Cottrell : Seaman : 29 yrs

Jane : 25 yrs

George ; 4 yrs

William : 1 yr

Charlotte Gill : 25 yrs

Isaac : Navy : 26 yrs

Margaret Burgh : 15 yrs

Martha : 14 yrs

Hannah Wilkins : 30 yrs

William : 2 yrs

John Dounan : Navy : 65 yrs

Hannah : 55 yrs

Margaret Gun : 55 yrs

Robert Marley : 11 yrs

Catherine : 9 yrs

Jane Campbell : 25 yrs

William : 16 days

William Way : 45 yrs

Sophia : 38 yrs

Frederick : 14 yrs

Charles : 13 yrs

Emily : 2 yrs

Edward : 8 months

Thomas Reynolds : Royal Marine : 35 yrs

Eliza : 29 yrs

Eliza : 8 yrs

Thomas : 4 yrs

Henry : 2 yrs

Ann Bencroft : Charwoman : 30 yrs

John Scriven : 12 yrs

Eliza Bencroft : 9 yrs

James : 7 yrs

William : 5 yrs

Frances : 2 yrs

Lydia Stevens : Charwoman : 46 yrs

Eliza : 25 yrs

Thomas : 5 yrs

Sarah : 8 months

Elizabeth Martell : Stay maker : 38 yrs

William : 15 yrs

Frederick : 9 yrs

Martha Terry : Charwoman : 30 yrs

Thomas : Labourer : 38 yrs

Mary Donaldson : 80 yrs

Mary Wipp : 80 yrs

Thomas Terry : 76 yrs

Sarah : 66 yrs

Elizabeth Nichol : 60 yrs

James Gates : Labourer : 30 yrs

Eliza : 30 yrs

Mary Williams : 46 yrs

Ann : 20 yrs

Mary : 15 yrs

Robert Copus : Labourer :65 yrs

Mary : 60 yrs

Robert : Labourer : 35 yrs

Maria : 25 yrs

George : 6 yrs

Maria : 4 yrs

Thomas : 3 yrs

Mary : 10 months

James Bell : 11 yrs

John Emery : Labourer : 65 yrs

Mary : 70 yrs

James Hooper : Navy : 35 yrs

Maria : 30 yrs

James : 10 yrs

Mary : 4 yrs

Thomas : 2 yrs

John Hooker : Clerk : 56 yrs

Martha : 50 yrs

William : Labourer : 27 yrs

James : Waiter : 22 yrs

Martha : Dressmaker : 24 yrs

Eliza : 10 yrs

Joseph Wallgrove : Royal Marine : 36 yrs

Mary : 29 yrs

Francis : 8 yrs

Julia : 6 yrs

Sarah Cleverley : 80 yrs

Eliza Chatman : Dressmaker : 34 yrs

Alexander : 8yrs

Louisa : 3 yrs

William Lashley : Royal Marine : 38 yrs

Sarah Gill : Charwoman : 50 yrs

Sarah : 15 yrs

George : 9 yrs

John : 7 yrs

Charles : 3 yrs

Charlotte Gates : Charwoman : 40 yrs

Sarah Chandler : Stay Maker : 40 yrs

Meliah : 11 yrs

William : 8 yrs

Sarah : 7 yrs

Ambrose : 2 yrs

Samuel Halls : Royal Marine : 31 yrs

Ann : 33 yrs

Gillip Jones : Labourer : 28 yrs

Ann : 27 yrs

GREEN COURT HERE

Thomas Seal : Navy Pensioner : 80 yrs

Hannah : 70 yrs

Richard : Seaman : 34 yrs

Jane : 34 yrs

Hannah Mansfield : 26 yrs

Maria : 1 yr

CROWN COURT HERE

Robert Jackson : Seaman : 50 yrs

Robert : 10 yrs

William : 10 yrs

Walter : 5 yrs

Jane : 40 yrs

Jane : 15 yrs

John Harding : Labourer : 60 yrs

NELSON COURT HERE

William Snooke : Carpenter : 65 yrs

Elizabeth : 65 yrs

Jane : Needle Work : 30 yrs

Mary : Needle Work : 25 yrs

Martha : Needle Work : 25 yrs

Charles : Carpenter : 20 yrs

Sarah : 15 yrs

Ann Green : 60 yrs

Edward Hoskin : Navy : 25 yrs

William Hillman : Navy : 25 yrs

Jane : 25 yrs

Maria : 7 yrs

Robert : 4 yrs

Nicholas Edwards : 35 yrs

Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 12 August 1854

For sale by private contract - All that messuage or dwelling-house, lately used as two dwelling houses, situate in Crown Street, containing two parlours , and four bedrooms, and late in the respective occupations of Messrs Batchelor and Hayward.

Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 20 September 1856

Pietro Felegara, one of the Italian Legion, was remanded for three days for further examination, charged with stabbing a soldier of the 20th Regiment, in Crown Street. last evening.  A Marine was also stabbed in the same street by one of the same legion, and was taken away to the hospital last night.  A soldier of the 97th was stabbed by one of the Italian legion, who managed to escape apprehension, and the wounded man was taken to hospital, where he still remains.  Another Italian of the legion is now in the borough gaol awaiting his trial for a similar offence.

Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 20 October 1860

Henry Harris, beer retailer of Crown Street, was summoned for allowing disorderly conduct in his beer-house, at an early hour on Saturday morning.  Mr Field, Solicitor of Gosport, attended on behalf of the defendant, and called a witness who satisfactorily proved that defendants house was open for the necessary purpose, and the disorder was occasioned by two soldiers, entering the house in a drunken state, and commencing to fight, which was only allowed to continue until the arrival of the guard to remove them.  Summons dismissed.

North Devon Journal : Thursday 31 May 1866

On Friday afternoon, the 25th ult., a waterman named George Bailey, residing in Crown Street, lost his life under somewhat mysterious circumstances.  After conveying Major F B Tritton, of the Parkhurst depot battalion, from Point to Cowes, Bailey left in his boat on the return voyage, about three o’clock, but did not reach his destination.  About three o’clock, however, as three fishermen belonging to Portsmouth, named James Moses Sen., James Moses Jun., and Henry Tull, were beating up the west channel towards Spithead, they fell in with a disabled boat, and near it were fragments of the wreck, including the side benches, rudder, pair of oars, head and stern sheets, and the back-board, on which was painted “ George Bailey Portsmouth.”  No doubt, therefore, remains as the fate of the unfortunate man, who has become a victim in his own temerity in attempting to return to Portsmouth in the face of the high wind and heavy sea, which prevailed at the time.  The deceased has left a widow and three children, who were wholly dependent on his exertions for their support.  The body has not yet been recovered.  Deceased was about forty-two years of age, and had held a waterman’s licence for twelve years.

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Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 30 January 1869

Death - On the 16th inst., at Crown Street, Edward Long, aged 72 years

1871 Census

Houses not listed

Joseph Newman : Labourer in Stores : 42 yrs

Mary : 42 yrs

James : 15 yrs

Emma : 11 yrs

William Jones : Marine Store Dealer : 45 yrs

Frances : 35 yrs

Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 24 May 1873

Joseph Booth, a pensioner, was summoned for being drunk and disorderly in Crown Street, was fined 10s, including costs; and in default of payment was sent to gaol for five days

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Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 5 February 1876

John Arthur was charged with having committed an assault upon Charlotte Wilmot.  The defendant did not appear.  The defendant, a scissors grinder, lives in Crown Street, and the complainant is the wife of a private in the 52nd Regiment, living in the same place.  On Saturday evening the defendant went to complainant’s room and struck her twice in the face.  The Magistrates imposed a fine of 20s, or 14 days hard labour.

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Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 14 May 1881

Robert Tagg, 26 of Crown Street was brought up on a charge of having possession of a piece of copper which was supposed to have been stolen.  On Thursday afternoon the prisoner was coming from Mary Street, Landport, but on seeing Detective Swift he immediately went back, and when the officer got the corner he saw the prisoner put his hands to the top of the wall.  He, however, denied that he had put anything over, but after he had been taken to the station, the officer the discovered the copper produced in the yard.  He had come from gaol only a few days since, and was now remanded for a week for enquiries to be made.

Lake’s Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser : Saturday 29 March 1890

Deaths : At Crown Street, Portsmouth, March 19th, Kate, daughter of John and Eliza Libby, aged 33 years.

Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 20 April 1901

Crown Street was formerly called Coach and Horses Street.

Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 20 June 1924

A marine store dealer, Henry Morris, of St Thomas’s Street, who said he was under the impression that if he did not take the goods to his premises he need not register the articles, was charged with failing to enter in his register a sale of metal.  Detective Sergeant Harvey explained that when he spoke to Morris about some zinc he had sold to another dealer, and asked to be allowed to examine his register, defendant replied that the register was the same as when witness last saw it, as he did not now buy any metal.  Several pages had been torn out of the register, which contained no entry relating to the sale of metal.  Harry Full of Crown Street spoke to purchasing 1cwt 20 lbs of zinc from the defendant on May 27th.  Defendant’s excuse to the Magistrates was that he bought the metal on the Quay, and he had been told by other dealers that if he bought anything and did not take it to his premises he need not register it.  “You have been led astray,” remarked the chairman, in fining Morris £2

Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 5 March 1925

Children’s Court : Two boys, aged ten and eleven year, were remanded for a week on a charge of breaking into a store at Clarence Barracks, Southsea, between Feb 23 and 27, and stealing a waistcoat and a pair of khaki breeches, value 4s 6d, the property of Edwin Casey, and a pair of white overalls, value 1s, the property of Jeremiah Ryan.  In giving evidence of arrest, Detective Constable Veal said he went to Clarence Barracks in consequence of a complaint made, and there saw the elder boy, who admitted breaking into the store with the other boy by opening the door with a key.  Witness afterwards traced the articles to a Mr Harry Full, a marine store dealer, of Crown Street, who had bought the property as rags.  The boys were granted bail, each in the surety of £5.

Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 3 December 1937

A boy who had appeared many times previously before the bench was, with his sister and another girl, charged with entering a house in Crown Street and stealing 4s 2.5d.  “We think the boy was to blame,” said the chairman to the girls, “for leading you into trouble.”  The two girls were allowed to go and the boy was sent to an approved school for three years.

Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 26 April 1937

For driving his taxi without due care and attention on April 9 at the junction of Festing Road and Festing Grove, George William Parker, 21, Crown Street, was ordered to pay costs of 4s.  It was stated  that acar driven by Dr Robert John MacEllowney, of Culver Road, Southsea, was turning slowly out of Festing Grove when the taxi flashed round the corner and struck it.  Answering Superintendent H L H Fisher, defendant said he was looking at the name plates on the roads and did not see the other car till he hit it.

Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 6 September 1937

“I had no idea I was going so fast,” declared George William Parker, taxi driver of Crown Street, who was summoned for speeding in Goldsmith Avenue on 20 August on August 20.  Pc Bleach said his speed over an observed distance was 38 miles an hour.  Defendant was fined 10s and warned that as a taxi driver he should be much more careful.