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From: "Lisa Koelink" <>
Subject: Re: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:29:26 +0100 (GMT Standard Time)
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Hi Elizabeth
Thank you so much for still trying to puzzle this out for me.
Providence Row is a bit of a problen eh?
I was looking on the net and found that there was a school in Church Terrace
in 1811, so assuming it was in the same place as it is now (don't know of
course, but it was on the 1830 map), then that could not have been
Providence Row in the 1820s.
I have to say, that it was lovely to find the name of the road that my
ancestors lived on from the Parish Records, I got very excited, but I didn't
dream at the time that I wouldn't be able to find it!!!!!
Just my luck!
Many thanks
Lisa

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From: elizabeth lee pugh
Date: 06/05/05 20:46:23
To: Lisa Koelink
Subject: Re: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43

Lisa
I have just had a "brainwave" - could Providence Row have been what is now
Church Terrace - that's where the current Methodist church is. I don't know
if it was ever anywhere else. My great grandfather Armstrong was the
minister there in the 1890s.
Church Terrace is at the town end of Norfolk Street parallel to Churchill
Road which used to be the Canal.
Regards
Elizabeth Pugh
Yukon, Canada

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From: "Lisa Koelink" <>
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43


>
> Thank you Donia for that information.
> Trouble is, where was it? Was Providence Row named after it? Was it the
> road that the Chapel was on?
> My husband has now taken some pictures of the area around Norfolk Street
> West, so that is what I have at the moment, until the next time.
> It would be so good though to find out where Providence Row actually was.
> Thanks again
> Lisa
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Donia Stick
> Date: 06/03/05 18:35:25
> To:
> Subject: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43
>
> I was in the record office in Cambridge today idling away some time
> looking
> at books about Wisbech to get a picture of what is was like there in the
> late 1830s and I came across a mention of the Primitive Methodist Chapel
> which was called Providence - I don't know if that's any help at all.
> Donia
> (Researching FLINT in Holbeach, Wisbech, Bethnal Green, Walthamstow and
> Southend-on-Sea)
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> Thank you Elizabeth very much.
> I already have the 1830 map of Wisbech, bought from the museum while I was
> there a year ago.
> Providence Row is not on it, wouldn't you know!
> Thanks for the input about the area though, I guessed it was not a very
> affluent one.
> I am going to have him take pictures of Norfolk Street West, and East
> anyway
> as I know one of them was the old Timber Market.
> Regards
> Lisa
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: elizabeth lee pugh
> Date: 06/01/05 15:42:39
> To: Lisa Koelink
> Subject: Re: Providence Row and Timber Market, Wisbech
>
> Hello Lisa
> While your husband is in Wisbech tell him to go to either the library or
> museum (next door to each other) - or even the tourist place next to the
> Post Office near Clarkson's memorial - and get you a copy of the 1830 map
> of
> Wisbech. I am not sure where they sell it. It is very inexpensive (maybe
> £2?) and is great for finding old streets and seeing what the town looked
> like.
> I would think that the south end of Norfolk Street was a poorer area. I
> can't find Providence Row, but it seems that most of the "Rows" were
> alongside the canal which was a poor area.
> Good luck!
> Elizabeth Pugh
> Yukon
> Canada
> (born in Wisbech)
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