tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post950978829247111505..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: South East London Coffee, 1914-1950Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-66205695944888864512010-10-15T21:32:05.274+00:002010-10-15T21:32:05.274+00:00Thanks Bill, that's a nice window into the pas...Thanks Bill, that's a nice window into the past - so a Jersey-born painter and decorator moved from Islington to Deptford and opened a coffee shop. Some coffee rooms were apparently started by religious temperance advocates to offer an alternative to alcohol- wonder if this was one, as his son seems to have been a Methodist..https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-59967935159003806332010-10-15T16:31:54.549+00:002010-10-15T16:31:54.549+00:00The census on 2 April 1911 shows John and Emily Co...The census on 2 April 1911 shows John and Emily Coudray living at 111 Tanners Hill and keeping a coffee shop at that address. John was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands c1856 marrying Emily Smith (born Marlborough Wiltshire c1863) in Islington in 1886. In 1891 the family was living in Islington and John was a painter and decorator. There were three children John George T 1887, Emily Esther 1888 and Henry 1890. Henry died in 1906 but John George and Emily Esther were both living with their parents in 1911. John George was a clerk working for the Wesleyan Missionary Society and married Alice Hinz in early 1917, Emily Esther married David Proudfoot in 1924. It appears that Emily senior remarried in 1929, which might explain the change of ownership by 1933.The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369913438808659085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-71482838447662807052010-10-13T15:49:38.386+00:002010-10-13T15:49:38.386+00:00Jn. Coudray was John Treffry Toulman Coudray who d...Jn. Coudray was John Treffry Toulman Coudray who died on 9 Aug 1917. Mrs E Coudray was his widow Emily.<br /><br />He does not appear to have been born in England, but I should have further info in a day or two.The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369913438808659085noreply@blogger.com