Church. Originally a small chapel built outside the walls of Barking Abbey. Â Altered and enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries. Captain Cook was married here in 1762.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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St Margaret's Barking
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Barking Abbey
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Wandsworth Chapel
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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Reverend Samuel Bardsley
Instituted as Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1857 and still in place in 1877. At some point he was rector of Finchley and Rural Dean of Highgate.  Married to Mary Anne Crofts. A man with t...
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Edward de Montjoie Rudolf
Born at 63 Pleasant Place, West Square, Lambeth. Aged 13 he became the family's sole wage-earner, as an office boy. From then on he was self-educated. Got a job as a civil servant and was a volunte...
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Thomas Bowyer
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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