Greenwoods Map of St. Pancras 1827

Mornington Crescent appears at the top of the map below, with Hampstead Road adjoining.   Thomas Tilbury senior died at 31 Mornington Road, later constructed North-Westwards in line with the Southern curve of Mornington Crescent and parallel to Arlington Street where his grandson Andrew lived with his family.  Highgate Cemetery, where Thomas, his wife Ann and sons Thomas and Henry are buried, is more than two miles North of here.

To the East of Hampstead Road is shown a large open space in which is Rhodes's Farm.  Here, in 1838, Euston Station, London's first railway terminus, was built for the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The railway line exits North-Westwards from the station, passing close to the Southern end of Mornington Crescent parallel to Mornington Road, since renamed Mornington Terrace.  

A short distance from Mornington Crescent, Hampstead Road ends and Tottenham Court continues Southward.  Here, opposite the reservoir, is Henry Street where Harriet Tilbury was born at No.30. in 1804.

South of this, Tottenham Court crosses what is shown as The New Road from Paddington to Islington.  This road now bears several different names within its length but at this crossing it is called Euston Road and forms the junction between Hampstead Road, here formerly Tottenham Court, and Tottenham Court Road.  Thomas Tilbury junior died at 191. Euston Rd. in 1875.

Some distance down Tottenham Court Road can be found a junction with Goodge Street, immediately North of which lies Pitt Street.   Charlotte Tilbury was born in 1808 at No.10 Pitt St., followed by Henry, John, Robert, Jeonetta and Eleanor in 1811, 1813, 1815, 1817 and 1820 respectively.  John was the only child of Thomas and Ann known to have died in childhood and he was buried at West Drayton in 1816.  Ten Pitt Street was also the address given for Tilbury and Beats, brass founders, in the London Directories of 1810 and 1820, but it is not clear whether this partnership was with Thomas (snr.) or with his father.

Thomas Tilbury Jr., Thomas and Ann's first child, was born at 73 Tottenham Court Road in 1801.

Parallel to and immediately South of Goodge St. is Colvill Court where, at No.11., Thomas Tilbury senior was born in 1777.  Now renamed Colville Place, this quiet street still exists though it is not shown on some London maps.  South of that again is Windmill Street where Ann Tilbury was born at No.16., in 1807.

At the bottom of the map Oxford Street can be found running roughly East-West and just above it is shown Castle Street East where the births of William (1822), Sophia (1825), Samuel (1827) and my great grandfather Charles (1829) all took place at No.40.  Among other residents also using this address were, Abraham Wivell, husband of Ann Tilbury, in the 1830's, John Tilbury, assumed to have been Thomas's father, in 1835, Eleanor (Tilbury) Hopkins in 1851 and a James Hopkins and family in 1851 who were probably related to Eleanor by marriage.  Designed by John Nash and opened in 1824 All Souls Church, widely criticised for its architecture at the time, can be found at the top of Regent Street.  Sophia, Samuel and Charles Tilbury were all christened there.

A search of the lower part of the Regents Park section of Greenwoods Map will reveal central St.Marylebone where the New Road (now Marylebone Road at this point) can again be seen with the old and new parish churches near its junction with Marylebone High Street.  Jeonetta, Eleanor and William were christened in St.Marylebone New Church and all their older siblings at the Old Church in the High Street. 

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