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Royle, William
PERSONS/18/711
1835 - 1880
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Poor rate collector, Gosford Street (1850), he was so acting from 1839 (see PA468/4/3/48/8; PA468/4/3/49/3,4; PA468/4/3/50/6-9; PA468/4/3/52/4-6; PA468/4/3/53/10,11; PA468/4/3/54/45,46; PA468/4/3/55/18,19; PA468/4/3/56/20-23; PA468/4/3/57/12-15). PA436/16/1 is his 1842 will though it was not proved until 1880, he having meanwhile been a solicitor's clerk and lived at 87 Much Park Street. PA409/1/31 shows that the solicitors were Minster and Company. He owned Warwick Court, Gosford Street, 1842-79 in succession to his father John (q.v.) of whom he was an executor - see PA440/6/25-40 passim. In 1857 he was described as lately a victualler - see PA440/6/34. See PA506/79/41; PA526/143/2,4. He had Warwick Lane and Greyfriars' Lane properties (1854 - PA55/3/20-22), Stoke Aldermoor land (1850-54 - PA55/12), Cook Street and St Agnes' Lane messuages (1835, when he was described as a warehouseman - see PA55/18/5-7), Saint John's Street property (1853 - PA55/21/20), a house in High Street, Kenilworth (1852-54 - PA55/22/2-6), Harnall land (1841-54: - PA55/27/33: PA56/64/4,5; PA56/71/7: PA704/1/14.II-IV), a Fletchamstead cottage (1847 - PA55/50), Eastern Green property (1847 - PA55/51), Whitefriars' Street tenements (1841-61:- CCA/2/3/399/25,28,30-33; CCA/2/3/400/21: PA55/53/1-3) and a share in Union Court, Holborn, Middlesex (1849-51 - PA55/56/4-6). He was forbidden from building at Spon End (1854 - PA55/55). Interested generally in his late father's property as his executor (1841 - PA55/3/19); see also PA56/67/2: PA491/19/2. He bought a close near Shut Lane (1846 - PA55/5/1), mortgaged Bishopgate Green property (1854 - PA55/54), used a Jordan Well messuage as security for his bank account (1854 - PA55/52) and was assignee of an insurance policy (1860 - PA55/59). He owed interest to the Oddfellows (1872 - PA55/57). PA55/58 relates to his shareholdings, 1871-77. For his interest in Butterworth family property 1840-45, see PA1681/48/3.XXIX,XXX,13,14,20. Sold land beyond the site of Greyfriars' Gate (PA56/65/11). Royle had Cow Lane tenements, 1852-56 - see PA491/23/10-12. As mortgage-assignee for the Hemming family's Great Butcher Row premises, 1870-80 (died), see CCA/2/3/157/65,66.IX. As his father's executor, see CCA/2/3/135/26,29,30; CCA/2/3/148/12; CCA/2/3/442/29; CCA/2/3/497/21. Royle bought in 1852 Dead Lane property which he still had when he died (see CCA/2/3/10/21-26,28). Benefited under the 1864 will of his brother John Royle (q.v.) - see CCA/2/3/148/8.
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