Anrthony Corvan continued

Above: Map showing Buckeridge Street and the area known as St. Giles Rookery.( Taken from the brilliant website http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm which has amazing high quality maps of old London available for download)
Anthony resided in Buckeridge Street for the first twenty or so years of his life. He was living there in the Corvan house at Number 15 Buckeridge Street with siblings John, Patrick, Ann,Mary and Rosa in the 1841 census.
Buckeridge Street ran through the heart of the Rookery of St. Giles, and was one of the streets which were demolished in 1844 to make way for the construction of New Oxford Street. A newspaper article from the London Times of Tuesday, May 7, 1844, stated:
" METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
The locality called the Rookery, which is situate on the line of the new street that is to connect Oxford Street and Holborn and which for many years has been the resort of the abandoned of both sexes, is about to be removed for the improvements in this neighbourhood. Sixty houses forming Buckeridge Street on the North and Church Street on the west have been sold by private contract( it not being thought advisable to dispose of them by auction, in consequence of their low value) and several men are now employed in their removal.
The purchaser of the property, which belonged to Colonel Buckeridge, has great difficulty in getting rid of the inmates, and in some of the houses, though the roofs have been taken off,they still remain."

The Corvans were fortunate in that they were affluent enough to relocate to another area without any trouble...the other poor and destitute residents wouldn't leave the demolished houses because they COULDN'T leave- they had absolutely nowhere else to go. Many of the Buckeridge Street lodging houses were vile and crammed people into rooms like animals, but at least they provided some sort of shelter. The scheme to rid London of its biggest embarrassment failed to take into account just where these poor people were going to go once the streets, alleys and courts of the Rookery were torn down.
It is interesting to note that when John Corvan, Anthony's elder brother, witnessed the marriage of his sister Mary Louisa Corvan to James Healy on May 21, 1844, he still nominated his address as '15 Buckerisge Street, Bloomsbury'.This seems to suggest that Number 15 Buckeridge Street was located on the south side of Buckeridge street, as the houses on that side were put up for sale by contract some weeks after those on the north side. The prospective sale of 70 houses on the south side of Buckeridge Street and Ivy Street, St.Giles,by private contract, was announced in the Times newspaper on May 23, 1844.
Anthony Corvan had already moved by May of 1844. The London directory of 1843 has an entry for:
"CORVAN, ANTHONY, baker, 16 Hampstead Road."

I believe that his sister Mary Corvan may have lived with Anthony, as when she married in 1844 her address was given as '16 Adam's Row, Hampstead Road'.

The area which the Corvans relocated to was like another world compared to the one from which they had came. They all settled at Regents Park in streets just east of the Park itself...Ehrenberg Terrace, Adam's Row Hampstead Road, Stanhope Cresent, Mornington Road...these locations were all within very close proximity of each other.