23 Jeffreys St

First numbered as 7 Jeffreys St

1818 Jan built but empty
1818 Oct Taylor
1819 June Taylor
1820 Jan Taylor
1821 Jan Taylor
1821 Sept Captain William Bitts
1822 Jan Captain William Bitts
1822 July Captain William Bitts
1823 Jan Captain William Bitts
1824 Jan Captain William Bitts
1825 July Captain William Bitts
1826 July Shadwick
1827 Jan Shadwick
1828 Jan empty
1829 Pendid
1831 Jan Pendid
1834 Jan Pendid
1841 Sept William Harris
1842 Sept R Physic
1844 Sept R Physic (who then goes to live at current number 25)
1846 March J Worsley
1847 March Mary Ann Betts (who moved from current number 19, probably as a widow)
1848 Sept Mary Ann Betts
1850 Mary Ann Betts
1851 Sept Mary Ann Betts
1853 Mary Ann Betts
1855 Mary Ann Betts
1858 Mary Ann Betts
1863 Mary Ann Betts
1866 Mary Ann Betts
1871 Mary Ann Betts
1875 Hinton
1880 Fairchild
Re-numbered as 23 Jeffreys St
1881 Thomas (33) and Caroline (29) Fairchild (glass painter) with William (8) and Horrace (3). Also George (31) and Jane (27) Reykes (music engraver) with Frederic (3) and Sydney (1). Also Frederic ( 25) and Elizabeth (28) Bewley (wood and metal painter) with Herbert (3) and Elizabeth (1).
1885 S Mills

1916 July 14 Private Charles Gordon Campbell, Middlesex Regiment, husband of Elizabeth Ann Campbell, killed in WWI

1970-present Paul Watkins.

1979 The front doors of No 21 and 23 feature on the first edition cover of Deborah Moggach’s novel ‘Close to Home’. The novelist was living at number 31 at the time.

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