RE: GARDNER St ThomasLast month jawgen@union-tel.com submitted postings suggesting that Richard Bradford and his Barker and Taylor connections came from the London parish of St. Thomas the Apostle. Not being sure where that was--but pretty sure the church and its environs had been leveled in the fire of 1666--I queried London's Guildhall Library. Their response is below. Great St Thomas & Queen Street come together a reasonably short walk north up Queen St. from the Southwark Bridge It's also not far around the corner from the Mansion House tube station. The area is to the near southeast of St. Paul's Cathedral. Would welcome any further evidence that the Bradfords and Barkers of colonial Virginia were from this portion of London. Yours, Joe Gardner ----- Original Message ----- From: Guildhall, PrintedBooks To: 'jgardner@iglou.com' Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: RE: GARDNER St Thomas Dear Dr Gardner The Church of St Thomas the Apostle stood at the present day junction of Queen Street and Great St Thomas Apostle. According to Gordon Huelin's book, Vanished churches of the City of London (published by Guildhall Library in 1996), 'The church was destroyed in 1666 and the parish afterwards amalgamated with St Mary Aldermary. Its churchyard remained until the nineteenth century when, on the widening of Queen Street and Cloak Lane, the human remains were reintered in a stone paved vault on the east side of Queen Street, now removed. The church site is marked by paved ground in front of some fine eighteenth-century residences, now offices. There is a City Corporation plaque on the corner of Great St Thomas Apostle, and also a stone tablet indicating the parish boundaries, with the date 1814 and the names of the two churchwardens - John Cockrill and George Cock.' Surviving parish registers are held here by the Manuscripts Section. Their email address is manuscripts.guildhall@corpoflondon.gov.uk Yours sincerely Ruth Barriskill For Principal Reference Librarian