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Personal data John Esau 

• He was born in the year 1781.Source 1
• Profession: in the year 1811 Tobacconist.

  From baptism cert of his daughter.

• He died in the year 1813 in Grub Street, City of London. (See map in Pictures), he was 32 years old.

  First name(s) John Last name Esau Age at death 32 Birth year 1781 Burial year 1813 Burial date 26 Feb 1813
  Parish St Giles Without Cripplegate Address Grub St City London County London Guildhall reference GL Mss 6424/1-3
  Source City of London Burials 1754-1855
  Record set Greater London Burial Index
  
  SEE NOTES ON GRUB STREET

• He is buried on February 26, 1813 in St Giles Without Cripplegate, London.

  First name(s) John Last name Esau Age at death 32 Birth year 1781 Burial year 1813 Burial date 26 Feb 1813
  Parish St Giles Without Cripplegate Address Grub St City London County London
  Guildhall reference GL Mss 6424/1-3
  Source City of London Burials 1754-1855
  Record set Greater London Burial Index

• This information was last updated on October 9, 2021.

Household of John Esau

He is married to Mary Hodges.

They got married on May 8, 1803 at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, he was 22 years old.Source 2

JOHN ESAU Spouse: MARY HODGES
Marriage: 08 MAY 1803 Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, London, London, England

First name(s) John Last name Esau Name note - Marriage year 1803 Marriage date 08 May 1803Marriage place London
Spouse's first name(s) Mary Spouse's last name Hodges County London Country England Record set England Marriages 1538-1973

Child(ren):

1. John David Easu  1807-1869
2. Elizabeth Martha Esau  1811-1889 

Notes about John Esau

Parents ? Esau Elinor 1767–1843

Spouse & Children Mary Hodges
Samuel Urquhart Esau (Esaw) 1804–1805 John David Esau 1807–1869 Elizabeth Martha Esau 1811–1889

Grub Street
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People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings. Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below. At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares. A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.
19th-century Grub Street (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in Chambers Book of Days
Until the early 19th century, Grub Street was a street close to London's impoverished Moorfields district that ran from Fore Street east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate north to Chiswell Street. It was pierced along its length with narrow entrances to alleys and courts, many of which retained the names of early signboards. Its bohemian society was set amidst the impoverished neighbourhood's low-rent dosshouses, brothels and coffeehouses.

Famous for its concentration of impoverished "hack writers", aspiring poets, and low-end publishers and booksellers, Grub Street existed on the margins of London's journalistic and literary scene.

According to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, the term was "originally the name of a street... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet". Johnson himself had lived and worked on Grub Street early in his career. The contemporary image of Grub Street was popularised by Alexander Pope in his Dunciad.

The street was later renamed Milton Street, which was partly swallowed up by the Barbican Estate development, but still survives in part. The street name no longer exists, but Grub Street has since become a pejorative term for impoverished hack writers and writings of low literary value.

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