Genealogy Chat

You are supposed to live within the sound of the bells but in fact people think of themselves as cockneys over a much wider area, even to the south of the river in Bermondsey/Rotherhithe (southeast London). I cannot believe you said that David! And you with a Welsh name, if ever I heard one! I bet you were Daffyd originally! lol. My family were river rats/dockers/bargebuilders/lightermen on both sides of the river (when yours were probably farming sheep) and certainly most people think of that as being cockney!!!!

St Mary le Bow is in Cheapside, City of London. To hear the bells you would be in the City or in the western parts of Tower Hamlets. Ratcliffe, Shadwell, Aldgate, Wapping parts of Whitechapel, Shoreditch, St Lukes. depending which way the wind is blowing. Of course those on the south bank of the Thames could probably hear the bell, but they could never lay claims to being Cockney, being spawn of the Devil and hardly human at all. Cockney is in no way connected to Mockney which is an accent affected by media erks who want to be a 'celebrity' dave

Help. Calling our loverly Londoner experts. If someone claimed to be born within the sound of Bow bell and therefore be a "real Londoner, which disticts, parishes, areas could they have been born in say around 1889, 1890 Many thanks JA