Within months of undertaker David Healy passing away, his only surviving son James married. On Tuesday, May 21st, 1844, at the Saint Aloysius Chapel in Saint Pancras, London, James Healy, an undertaker of full age, residing at 104 High Holborn, married Mary Louisa Corvan, a spinster from 16 Adam's Row. Witnesses were John Corvan of 15 Buckeridge Street,Bloomsbury, who was Mary's brother, and Thomas Parker of 57 Museum Street, Bloomsbury( who had also witnessed the will of James Healy's father six months previously).Thomas Parker a builder who was born in Ireland in c. 1795. He and his wife Bridget had a large family comprising of Alice, Mary, George, Mathew, Catherine, Ellen, Matilda and Elizabeth born in London between 1829 and 1850.
Exactly two weeks later, on Tuesday, June 4, 1844, James Healy's sister Mary was married to his brother-in-law, Anthony Edward Corvan. They were married in the Sardinian Chapel in St. Giles, and due to the stipulations in David Healy's will and the fact that Mary Healy was a minor, permission to marry would have had to be granted by both Mary's mother, Ellen Healy, and her brother James.
Mary fell pregnant immediately, as their first child, a daughter named Catherine Mary Corvan, was born nine months later. She was born at 16 Adams Row at 5:45 P.M. on Wednesday, March 26, 1845, and her father was noted as still being a baker.
Unfortunately, their baby girl didn’t survive until even her first birthday…she died on November 25, 1845, at 16 Adam's Row, of " Dentition, four weeks duration, and spasmodic affection of the glottis". Her mother, Mary Corvan, present at the death, registered her eight month old daughter's death two days later.She was about four months pregnant at the time of Catherine's death, and her second child, Ellen Annette Mary Corvan was born at five in the afternoon on Sunday, April 13th, 1846, in the Corvan home at 16 Adams Row.As with the information given on his first child's birth certificate, Anthony again was noted as being a baker.
Two more daughters followed for Anthony and Mary- Mary in 1848 and Rosa in 1851. I have not purchased Mary's birth certificate as yet, but Rosa's gave the following information:
" Tenth January, 1851, at 73 Lisson Grove North: Rosa Corvan, daughter of Anthony Edward Corvan, baker, and Mary Corvan, formerly Healy. Rosa's mother registered her birth the following month, on February 20, 1851.
Sadly, the birth of a son at last didn’t fulfil the promise of an heir to carry on the Corvan name…baby John died in 1854 aged only 3 months.
Anthony continued with his occupation as a baker throughout the 1840s from his shop at 16 Adam's Row, Hampstead Road.He appears in the London Directories of 1843 and 1848 as:
1843: "CORVAN, ANTHONY, baker, 16 Hampstead Road"
1848: "CORVAN, ANTHONY EDWARD, baker, 16 Adam's Row, Hampstead Road."
Business must have been doing well, because Anthony expanded his trade from one to two shops towards the end of the 1840s. He maintained his shop at 16 Adams Row, Hampstead Road,and moved his family to another shop and premises at 73 Lisson Grove North. However,financial problems began to creep into the Corvan household, and by 1850 Anthony Edward Corvan's name was appearing in The London Gazette and London Times in notices associated with his impending bankruptcy.\
On Monday, May 27, 1850, a notice appeared in the London Times advertising the sale of Anthony’s premises….
“ IN BANKRUPTCY- to Millers, Flour factors, bakers and others- two old established and first rate bakers’ shops, with the Goodwills of the Trades, to be sold without reserve, in 2 lots, by Mr. Champness at Jack’s Coffee House, Mark-lane, on Monday June 3, at 2 for 3 precisely, by order of the assignees of Mr. Anthony Edward Corvan.
Two Leasehold shops and premises, situate in populous and daily improving neighbourhoods. Lot 1 will consist of a very desirable messuage and premises, with a capricious Baker’s shop, excellently fitted up for the convenience of the trade, and situate in the most eligible part of Hampstead Road, being No. 16 Adams-row, late in the occupation of A.E. Corvan, the bankrupt; held under a lease of which 16 ½ years are yet unexpired, at the yearly rent of 67 pounds; together with the Goodwill of the business, which has, according to the written examination of the bankrupt, averaged from 20 to 30 sacks per week.
Lot 2 will comprise a very substantially brick-built messuage, being number 73 Lisson Grove, late in the occupation of the bankrupt, with a handsome and modern plate-glass front to the baker’s shop, in mahogany frame; and on which premises a very large trade has lately been done, together with the Goodwill of the business. The said premises are held under an agreement for 3 years from Christmas 1849, and which contain an agreement for a lease of 21 years at the yearly rent of 52 pounds. The fixtures and fittings to be taken at a valuation in the usual way.
May be viewed anytime preceding the sale and particulars may be had of Mr. J.J. Hubbard, solicitor; of Messrs Hillery, solicitors, 63 Fenchurch-street; at Jacks Coffee House, Mark-lane; of W. Pennell,Esq, official assignee, Guild-hall chambers, and of Mr. Champness, auctioneer, surveyor and estate agent.”
A short article in The London Times on January 6, 1851, gave an explanation as to the failure of Anthony Corvan's business...
" A bankrupt named Corvan who kept what is termed a "cheap shop" in the Hampstead Road , applied for his certificate.Corvan was a baker, and undersold all his neighbours. Beginning with a small capital, he failed considerably in debt with nothing for his creditors but the lease of the premises, value 500 pounds."
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