• Aintree Street, Fulham, London - Grandmother Elizabeth Alma Humphries (nee Rice) lived in Aintree Street from at least 1921.
  
  
• Chelsea, London - Under Construction
  
  
• Brighton Theatre - See Hewett Cobb & the Brighton Theatre
  
  
• Clements Inn, London - Hewett Cobb (c1764-1822) practised law here from 1784 to 1822.
  
  
• Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk - From 1777-1792, William Cobbe (1748-1827) was the Steward here.
  
  
• Licensed Victuallers School, Kennington, Surrey, attended by William and Thomas Kaley in 1827. See My Kaley Family.
  
  
• Millbank Prison - During the 2nd half of the 19th century my Humphries, Kaley and Summerhays ancestors lived in the salubrious shadow of the prison, in Causton Street, Ponsonby Place and Regent Street (not the famous one). The prison was demolished finally in 1903 and the Tate Britain gallery, amongst other buildings, now sits on the site.
  
  
• Mingary Castle, Ardnamurchan, Scotland. See Origin of the Mckain Family.
  
  
• Newbridge House, Donabate, Ireland, the home of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin.
  
  
• 3 Rickett Street, Fulham, London - At the 1891 Census, 16 people resided here, including my great grandparents Alfred and Hannah Humphries with 7 of their children. The house, described as 3-bedroom, last sold in 2007 for £920,000. See My Humphries Family
  
  
• St. George's, Hanover Square, London the Church was built between 1721 to 1724. Within its parish were some of the most fashionable areas of the West End with an aristocratic population, as well as poorer districts where many of my ancestors lived. The famous married there (Lady Hamilton, Joseph Grimaldi, Shelley, Disraeli and Theodore Roosevelt) and so did my 4 x great grandfather John Mayhew in 1819. Unfortunately John also had recourse to that other parish institution - the Workhouse, from where he was buried in 1843. See My Mayhew Family

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