1700s Dean Street Residents - updated

UPDATED March 2024

I glean every possible will and property record to gather the names of those who lived in Dean Street, in the 1700s. The date next to each name is the date on which I find reference to them at Dean Street but they may have been there earlier and later. This post is for occupiers not owners of property. In most cases in the 1700s the two are not the same thing.

Most properties were on the Trinity Road side of the street in those days. None of these old buildings survive.

Those listed will be heads of households. Finding where anyone lived in the 1700s is very hard unless they were gentry. I hope this listing proves useful to you. For more Dean Street content or to see other 1700s street listings for Marlow use the "Specific Shops, Streets, Etc" option on the blog.

William Alce. Tenant 1717. See Ambrose Thompson below. William may be the William Alce Senior who died in 1727.

Edward Bailey junior. Tenant 1718. An Edward Bayley tenant 1727 too. May be same man.

William Bowles. Tenant of cottage 1795.

John Davids. Tenant 1718.

George Deane. Tenant 1717. People of this family name owned Dean Street property in the 1600s.

Robert Deane. Tenant 1735.

John and William Dormer. Owners of a cottage which they seem to have jointly occupied. 1744.

William Former. Tenant. 1755. Could this be incorrect rendering of William Dormer as above?

Edward Fryth / Frith. Tenant 1718. Previous tenant was Thomas Fryth / Frith. Historically common Dean Street family name.

Francis Frith. Tenant. 1780.

John Goldsmith. Tenant 1792.

Christopher Harding 1737. Tenant. Same cottage Thomas Stoppe was in in 1727. No longer there 1750. Christopher married Elizabeth Bye in Marlow in 1708.

James Harding. Tenant 1792.

Thomas Harding. Tenant of a cottage 1793.

William Harding. Tenant 1780. 

Robert Harmon. Tenant 1755.

Thomas Harris. Occupier 1750. Same house Christopher Harding lived in in 1737 and Thomas Stoppe in 1727.

Joseph Hick. Tenant of a cottage 1793.

Widow Hickman. Tenant 1717.

James Price. Tenant of a cottage 1744.

Widow Smith. Resident 1727.

David Standing. Tenant 1718.

Thomas Stoppe. Tenant of a cottage 1727. Same property Christopher Harding and Thomas Harris later occupied.

Mary Stroud, widow 1718. Previously this property was occupied by Edward Stroud. There were still Strouds in Dean Street in the 1800s.

Ambrose Thompson. Tenant 1717. Next door to William Alce. Ambrose and a William Alce (who may be an older William Alce than the 1717 tenant) both hired bays of a barn off Quoiting Square back in 1690. Ambrose still hired a tiny plot of land near that barn in 1735. Though involved in husbandry he was principally a blacksmith with a forge in the High Street. He died in 1744.

Ann Webb, widow. Tenant of home 1793.

Robert Wiggington. Tenant of a cottage 1795. This is another long term Dean Street name.

John Wilks. Tenant 1718.

My long length Recreated 1700s Trade Directory for Marlow and Little Marlow is here.

1700s residents lists for Oxford Road, Quoiting Square, High Street and Chapel Street are also available on this blog. Find them under the menu option "Specific Shops, Streets...Etc" here. You will also find on that menu other Dean Street related posts from all eras.

All mentions of someone on this blog can be found under the Person Index.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

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