Monday, 5 March 2012

Peter d'Agueville - Car Booter

When I told my colleague Lacyee that I'd found a second advertisement for an auction at Peter d'Agueville's house she said, "He seems a bit of a car booter our Pierre." I wonder whether the first sale even took place because the items listed seem similar but for the absence of a piano.

Ipswich Journal 22 September 1792
The British Library Board

It appears that Mr d'Agueville has by this time already moved on from Hatton Court. However, he has lately occupied the house and isn't the late occupant. It doesn't necessarily even mean that he has left Ipswich.

Ipswich Journal 16 May 1778
The British Library Board
In the Ipswich Journal for Saturday 16 May 1778 advertised the sale of an estate situated in Ipswich. Lot iv is a freehold messuage with a bricked sashed front, "late in the occupation of Mr. Dagueville." Unlike many other d'Egville properties it was obviously unsuitable for a dancing school. Balls were held in the assembly rooms and he seems to have taught at various locations.

If Mr. Dagueville moved from the area of Saint Mary's Church in Stoke Street to Hatton Court then he upped sticks for new home little more that ten minutes walk away.


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