Every Thursday there is an antique market at Old Spitalfields.
It was fun to see...nothing grabbed us to buy.
But....
because we were close, we had to go to St Leonard Church in Shoreditch.
This is where John Powell Hughlings (brother to Ann Hughlings Pitchforth) married his first cousin Ann Meredith on 27 November 1828.
There was also a 3-year old William Hughlings whose burial took place here in 1807...
good chance he's an unknown brother to Ann...still working through that.
AND William Shakespeare attended church here (but that was in the 1500s).
Twas quite sad...the church is in pretty bad shape. It was supposed to be open from 12-2, but wasn't. There was a sign about not loitering...it's apparently a big hangout for the homeless.
If the cemetery was here, it's just a garden now which is maintained by the city.
At least the building's being worked on as there is lots of scaffolding around the back.
Monday I went to Kew Gardens with 5 senior missionaries (Rick was in Istanbul).
It was so beautiful!
And it's huge....impossible to get through in just one day.
Wednesday was Book Club at a restaurant inside the Wallace House.
The Wallace Collection has tons of furniture, paintings, sculptures, porcelain, armour, etc.
Some of the treasures had belonged to Marie Antoinette. They were sold off by the French after the Revolution to earn quick money.
As we were leaving Manchester Square where this house is, someone mentioned the number
of "blue plaques" on the homes in this square, and most of them were for medical people.
DING, DING, DING!
I had planned on coming here some day, and here I was!
What is a blue plaque you say?
Buildings have a blue plaque if someone famous lived there.
Here's my famous person....
John Hughlings Jackson, Father of English Neurology.
If anyone has studied neurology, they know his name and work.
He is Ann Hughlings Pitchforth's nephew, son of her sister Sarah...
first cousin to my gr gr grandfather Samuel Pitchforth...
think that makes me a first cousin 4 times removed.
I know. I get excited about weird things.
LOVE family history!!!!
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