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Royle, John
PERSONS/18/707
1798 - 1842
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
See PA202/1/11-17 passim for this early nineteenth century Gosford Street solicitor. See likewise BA/A/G/17/5. He had Well Street premises when he died in 1842 - see BA/A/G/19/1. See PA436/16/1 for the will which his son made following the father's death. Either he or his son was on the city council, 1836-38. He had Red Lane land, 1824-40 (see PA440/4/1.IV: PA491/19/1.IV,2: PA1681/40/1.IV: PA56/67/1.XIII-XV,2) and owned Warwick Court, Gosford Street from 1835 until he died (see PA440/6/22-25). In 1821 he was a member of the Hare and Squirrel Building Society - see PA506/190/1 and PA55/6/1. He had property in Fleet Street (1818 - PA55/2/22-23), Warwick Lane (1814-42 - CCA/2/3/135/16-26 (will) passim, 27; CCA/2/3/803/14: PA55/3/2-19), Dead Lane (1820-23:- CCA/2/3/469/22: PA55/21/3-4), Little Butcher Row (1813 - PA55/38/3: PA1681/33/1) and the future 111 & 111a, Gosford Street and 26 & 27, Bayley Lane (by the time that he died - see CCA/2/3/497/21,24); from 1821 the Well Street premises included the Waggon and Horses Inn (PA55/48/14-17). He was appointee for Robert Ryley's property, 1834-39 (see PA55/4/7, 8). See PA55/23/10; PA55/31/1. He had Cross Cheaping property (PA1681/33/1). Surety for Henry Catterns' and William Royle's (qq.v.) debt (PA1681/48/3.XXX,8). For his Walsgrave-on-Sowe and Alderman's Green land, see PA1681/48/18,20. See PA56/44/39-42 (1798 - 1807); PA56/92/23. Probably had land at the site of Whitefriars' Street and Greyfriars' churchyard (PA56/65/11). Royle was granted letters of administration relating to Longford land on behalf of John Hurst and William Masser (qq.v.) in 1827 - see PA56/114/15,19. As trustee for sale of land which became part of Union Street, 1814-20, see CCA/2/3/582/1.XIX,2-3: PA491/94/1. See CCA/2/3/451/26. In 1818 Royle bought Earl Street property which he retained at the time of his death - see CCA/2/3/442/21-22,29. See CCA/2/3/1/17,30: CCA/2/3/221/18; CCA/2/3/912/21. As a perpetual commissioner to hear married women's acknowledgements of deeds, see CCA/2/3/469/31 (attachment). See PA811/2/27-28. For Royle's adjacent Cross Cheaping and Little Butcher Row property in 1840, see CCA/2/3/148/3,4. As a developer of the Smith Street that was to become Whitefriars' Street, 1820ff, see CCA/2/3/888/3-5.
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