Dear Eunice & Ron,
[poco con snippo]
> First question : does anyone have access to a Kelly's or other directory
> which would give information about this man and/or his 'Yard?
- There doesn't appear to be one in the Institute of
Historical Research, so I guess the local library (or the British
Library Newspaper Section) is the better bet.
> Second question [Dr. Blick's death]
This is odd, because there's a death notice in The Times of Tuesday
21 August 1838: "On Saturday evening last, in consequence of an
accident, in the 55th year of his age, Dr. W. F. Blicke, of
Marsh-street, Walthamstow, and on the half-pay of the staff-surgeons
of the army." How did they come to know of it so soon in
Rotherhithe (Surrey), one wonders, when it occurred at Walthamstow in
Essex?
According to W. Houghton ("Walthamstow: Its Highways and Byways",
Walthamstow Antiq Soc Occ Publicns no. 1, 1937, p.9,) Dr. Blicke was
then the principal medical practitioner in Walthamstow. He was
thrown from his gig and killed on the railway bridge shortly after it
was opened.
A propos of Dr Blick/Blicke, he is variously recorded as William
Flamank Blick(e) and WIlliam Hamank Blick(e). According to the Army
List, he was assistant surgeon to the 86th Regiment of Foot from May
1805, transferred to the 10th Regiment of Foot as surgeon in 1812,
and went onto the half-pay list (i.e. left the army) in 1813.
Regards,
Mark Harris
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