A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
He was a citizen & haberdasher.
The note for his burial in Boyd's Inhabitants of London is a bit confusing. The note, in full, states: "Buried at S Dionis, bur at S Martin Orgar." Was he buried at only one of the two churches -- or buried at one and later reburied at the other?
Church of St Dionis, Backchurch, was located on Fenchurch Street, near the south-west corner of Lime Street, behind the houses in Fenchurch Street. The old church burned down in the Great Fire of London (1666), and a new church was built on the site. The new church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built 1670-74 and demolished in 1879.
St Martin Orgar was a church in the City of London in Martin Lane, off Cannon Street, most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. Most of the building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, but the tower and part of the nave were left standing. The parish was merged with St Clement Eastcheap. The remains of the church were restored and used by French Protestants until 1820. Most of the remaining building was then pulled down, but the tower remained and was rebuilt in 1851 as the campanile of St Clement Eastcheap. The churchyard of St Martins remains to the south of the campanile.
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