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Revealing hidden stories about the people living in the Parish of St Botolphs Without Aldgate in the early 1600s. St Botolphs Without Aldgate Revealing information about the people living and working in the parish of St Botolphs Without Aldgate, (outside the city walls) of London, in the early 1600s. As written in the parish record books. Researched as part of my Arts Council 'Develop Your Creative Practice ' at The London Archives. Please note: Some words and language may be upsetting or offensive. The Parish Clerk 1614 • St Botolph Without Aldgate, London, England John Clarke, the parish clerk began writing in the parish register. 1625 • Buried John Clarke the honest painful parish clerk of this parish. (Painful - the sense of "exertion, effort" from late 14th Century pains "great care taken for some purpose, exertion or trouble taken in doing something”.) The Perfumer 1605 • Baptism Richard Morris son of John Morris christened 27th October. 1621 • Baptism John Morris son of Richard Morris perfumer and Alice his wife, was christened the 6th September. 1665 • Burial Richard Morris of Gravell Lane buried the 9th September. (One of many deaths listed due to the plague.) The Lewd Fellow (Lewd - belonging to the common people, crude, vulgar.) 1614 • Baptism Elizabeth Yarner, the reputed daughter of Thomas Yarner a lewd fellow. The Mother named Agnes Charley, as base as the father, delivered the child in the street, Eastsmithfield. Christened 26th October. A Poor Miserable Fellow 1607 • Marriage Thomas Symball and Ellyn Kytson were married 1st January. 1614 • Burial Hellen Simball wife of Thomas Symball, a poor man in Bull Alley, was buried on 24th September. 1614 • Burial Thomas Simball, a poor miserable fellow of Bull Alley in the High Street, was buried on 3rd October. The Lighterman (Lighterman - a person employed to light lamps by hand) 1619 • Burial Nicholas Obanke son of John Obanke a lighterman and Sara his wife was buried 9th December. 1621 • Burial Thomas Obanke son of John Obanke a lighterman, was buried the 22nd November. The Mothers name was Sara. 1624 • Burial John Obanke son of John Obanke a labourer and Sara his wife was buried 11th December. The Minister's Sons 1614 • Burial Daniel Brigge, son of Mr John Brigge our Minister, was buried the 21st July. He was buried in the chancel (a part of the church near the alter) and had a knell (the sound of a bell, especially when rung for a death or funeral) with the great bell. He died of a sore mouth” 1614 • Baptism William Brigge, son of Mr John Brigge our Minister. Christened on Sunday 25th September. 1615 • Burial William Brigge, an infant son of Mr John Brigge Minister of the parish was buried in the chancel on 13th July. The Hundred Year Old 1621 • Burial Agnes Laugher, widow. Mother to Mrs Porder, a wine merchant. Rounded one hundred years old and was buried 24th April. The Tailor & his Family 1590 • Baptism Agnis Maperlie the daughter of William Maplie, a citizen and merchant tailor of London dwelling in hounsditch near the Aldgate, was christened 1st November. 1591 • Burial Agnis Maperly the daughter of William Maperly, a tailor living near the Aldgate was buried 30th January 1591 being a quarter old. 1592 • Baptism Margery Maperley the daughter of William Maperly, a citizen and merchant tailor of London dwelling near Aldgate, was christened 11th May. 1593 • Burial George Maperley son of William Maperly, a tailor dwelling without Aldgate was buried 11th September of the plague. 1614 • Burial Isabell Maperley widow, one of the alms women, belonging to the merchant tailors alms house near Tower Hill, was buried in the common ground on 22nd July. He had the black cloth and a knell (the sound of a bell, especially when rung for a death or funeral) with the fourth bell. The Mariner 1612 • Marriage Thomas Jheronomy and Helen Millian two black moors were married 9th February. 1613 • Death Thomas Jheronomy mariner, died at sea aboard the East India Company ship Peppercorn. 1613 • Baptism Josias Jeronnomy son of Thomas Jeronnomy was christened on 1st September. The Lewd Strumpet (Strumpet - a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.) 1615 • Baptism/Burial Elizabeth, a bastard child was cast into a privy (a toilet) by a lewd strumpet in Hounsditch. The mother named Joan Thacke, a servant to Thomas Newton a broker in Hounsditch. Joan cast the child into a privy and fled away. By good fortune it was heard to cry and saved. The child was christened in the Newton’s house on 11th May but died a week after. A Poor Woman 1615 • Burial A poor woman who lived in the street near to Tower Hill was buried on 27th October, none could tell her name. The Brewers Servant 1614 • Baptism Katherine Mangeborow daughter to William Mangeborow of Swan alley. Christened on Sunday 18th September. 1615 • Burial Katherine Mangeborow daughter to William Mangeborow a brewers servant of Eastsmithfield was buried 27th October. The Schoolmaster 1614 • Baptism Ralph Burchingshaw, son of Anthonie, a schoolmaster in the High Street in Bull Alley was christened 20th May. 1614 • Burial Ralph Burchingshaw, an infant son to Anthonie in Bull Alley in the High Street, was buried 15th June 1614 in the common ground. 1616 • Burial Anthonie Burchingshaw, who dwelt in Harrow alley, was buried on 23rd November. The Innocent 1621 • Burial Alice Robinson an innocent kept by Andrew Blyntherne a tailor of Harrow Alley was buried on the 23rd November. She was buried in the old church yard and had the black cloth.

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There’s something missing.  I went to look for it and it wasn’t there.  All I found was a gap (and all the bad memories).  Where is the pile of missing memories?  Where is he? Where is Dad when I was young? Finding Dad There’s something missing. I went to look for it and it wasn’t there. Where is the pile of missing memories? Where is he? Where is Dad when I was young? Film Text Transcript: I collect memories. I store them in jars, bottles and boxes. I fold them up neatly and put them in books for safe keeping. Each memory tells a story. I do this because there’s something missing. I have a gap where memories should be. Where are the memories of Dad when I was young? I wandered around the first house we lived in looking for him. I went from room to room and couldn’t find him anywhere. Not in my room, the bathroom, the kitchen. Not downstairs, not in the front room or his office. I walked outside, down the steps into the yard and to the warehouse… That’s where I found him. With the cardboard boxes piled high, brown tape, brown paper. With the taste and smell of cardboard and dust. Finding Dad in the sounds of his voice. Smell - Biscuits and tea. Sounds - Your voice. Tea box with miniature teapot and digestive biscuits. Secret Garden box with key and flowers bottle. Bark from the Bonsai tree you made which I couldn't keep alive. Bright spring blossom that reminded me of you. Quince blossom like we had in the back garden. Our Secret Garden. This is all a very long overdue love letter to Dad celebrating in all those brilliant and best bits (that I can only just remember). Yvonne J Foster Finding Dad 'Finding Dad' was part of The Museum Of Ordinary People 's immersive exhibition 'Home ' at the Phoenix Gallery in May 2021. "HOME presents fascinating, heartbreaking and uplifting stories of ordinary people. MOOP and Mnemoscene have collaborated with members of the public to explore how their collections of everyday objects, photos and documents can be curated to represent our emotional connection with the home and showcase untold narratives that chronicle real people’s lives." Rummage through the website Harriet's House ; created alongside the exhibition to showcase the work in an alternative form. In the Living Room you can interact with the memory box I created and hear the audio collage I put together of my father's voice. Alternatively you can hear the full audio piece on Soundcloud .

Research based in 17th Century Portsoken Ward, Aldgate, London. The London Archives As part of my Arts Council 'Develop Your Creative Practice ' research I visited The London Archives and looked at the 17th Century parish records of St Botolphs Without Aldgate in Portsoken Ward, London. I found and fell in love with the writings of 'John Clerke The Parish Clarke'. Since researching I have started to create new work: 17th Century London .

The beginning of a love affair with Museum research. A Fascination with Museum Labels Through Yvonne's work in Arts for Health and Wellbeing, and her interest in Museums and Collections, she attended an online event summit with Museum Next . From this she became aware of Screen South’s project supporting disabled people leading in museums. Curating for Change - a groundbreaking project with 16 D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent curatorial Trainees and Fellows, working in museums across England to uncover new stories in collections. The short film below is an edited and updated version of the application she created for the first round of curatorial fellowships organised by Curating for Change, in partnership with the Horniman Museum .

Yvonne J Foster was one of three artists chosen to take part in the Step Up: Interpreting Collections training programme delivered in partnership with Outside In and The Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection Yvonne J Foster was one of three artists chosen to take part in the Step Up: Interpreting Collections training programme, delivered in partnership with Outside In and The Wellcome Collection . "I'm two sessions in to the Step Up: Interpreting Collections course. This year is based at the Wellcome Collection, somewhere I've been wanting to visit for years. The part I knew nothing about was the man behind the collection, who by all accounts seems to have been a complete (and fabulous) eccentric: 'Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) was a luxuriantly moustached entrepreneur, archaeologist and philanthropist, and a manic collector of objects.' We have been given the chance to research something from the Medicine Man exhibition; a tiny representation of the vast Wellcome Collection hoard. We have been spoilt for choice, as the exhibition holds a plethora of objects from false limbs and early prosthetics (my favourite being a very piratey looking peg leg) to Napoleon’s toothbrush and the medicine chest that Scott took to the Antarctic. There are thousands of hidden stories behind each of the objects and I’ve been asked just to follow one. I feel like I’m on an adventure, following a lead or a clue and see where it takes me. I’m finding out as much as I can about the people behind the object. Who made it? Who used it? Where were they? What were they doing? Throughout their time within the Wellcome Collection objects have a story outside their original use. The have been examined, researched, handled and numbered in an effort to comprehensively organise and categorise the collection. The idea of looking at objects and following a path to find out their journey is so appealing. An area of work I am currently exploring is to do with just that; stories behind collected objects and their corresponding numbers, labels and cataloging. So being given the chance to research at the Wellcome Collection is extremely exciting. But you don’t always find the answers. There’s gaps, dead ends and missing information. Which surprisingly makes the story even more intriguing." Hidden Stories Behind Museum Objects IMG_3365 IMG_3340 IMG_0127

Look Down The 'Look Down' series was exhibited as part of INEXTRICABLE (2) an exhibition in the 2016 Brighton Photo Fringe Festival. The theme explores 'loanwords' in the English language - everyday words firmly entrenched in our vocabulary which have been adopted from another language. "Yvonne explores the connections between words and images. The photographs alone are intentionally banal and ambiguous. By using the history and meaning of words she highlights other possible meanings within the images." look (v.) Old English locian "use the eyes for seeing, gaze, look, behold, spy," from West Germanic *lokjan down (adv.) Late Old English shortened form of Old English ofdune "downwards," from dune "from the hill," down (n.) A sense development peculiar to English. Used as a preposition since c. 1500. Sense of "depressed mentally " is attested from c. 1600. shoe (n.) Old English scoh "shoe," from Proto-Germanic *skokhaz To stand in someone's shoes "see things from his or her point of view" is attested from 1767. lace (n.) early 13c., laz , "cord made of braided or interwoven strands of silk, etc.," from Old French laz "a net, noose, string, cord, tie, ribbon, or snare" and as preserved in shoelace (late 14c.), "piece of cord used to draw together the edges of slits or openings in an article of clothing". sneaker (n.) 1590s, "one who sneaks," agent noun from sneak (v.). Meaning "rubber-soled shoe" is attested from 1895, American English; earlier sneak (1862), so called because the shoe was noiseless. The INEXTRICABLE project has been developed and curated by Jenni Lewin-Turner of urbanflo creative .

"I guess I ought to have a share, as it all happened through me, but not in the way I expected." Art as Storytelling Created during Drawing Insight: A collaborative project supported by Outside In and Chichester University in 2017. "Yvonne and Deborah worked over a three-month period supported by artist and project facilitator Rachel Redfern. Throughout the project they have used art as a means of communication and dialogue. Gaining shared and unexpected insights into themselves and their practices, the resulting artwork is a celebration of the differences that revealed themselves." "Art as Storytelling was created using printed ephemera from the early 1900s. Yvonne used a combination of collaged words and images overlaid with ink and crosshatching to tell an unusual visual story of events that happened during the project."

Who was Seymour? A shoe box filled with paper ephemera tells the story of one mans life. Following his journey through primary school and leaving home for the first time for boarding school, to surviving two world wars. A jumble of handwritten letters now lovingly organised and brought to life in two antique photo albums. Ancestry research into his life has helped build a family tree and made sense of the authors and recipients of the letters but there are still more questions than answers about his life. So, who was Seymour?

Keep up to date on the progress of a year of research funded by the Arts Council's 'Develop Your Creative Practice' fund . Develop Your Creative Practice I have made some big changes to my artistic practice, with support from the Arts Council 'Develop Your Creative Practice' fund. I previously worked in the Arts for Health & Wellbeing sector but now my focus is on Museums, Archives and Collections. I am following my love of research which began at The Wellcome Collection. To find out more, you can see my short film : A Fascination with Museum Labels . During the year of research I looked into: - Museum cataloging. - Hidden stories behind museum objects. - Creators of early museums and collections. - Parish registers of 17th Century Aldgate. - Early maps of London. Here are some of my favourite images from the Parish Records written by 'John Clerke the Parish Clarke' found in The London Archives . Since researching I have started to create new work: 17th Century London .

Invisibles from Yvonne J Foster's 'Ice Cream Artworks' series Invisibles Get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a portrait Ice Cream Artworks The Ice Cream Artworks are inspired by the illustrative style of the early 20th Century, especially the work of artist Coles Phillips, known for his stylish images and signature use of negative space. In 1908 he launched his “Fadeaway Girl” style used in advertisements and magazine covers. In the Invisibles series elements are strip away, leaving only specific details with a circle motif and bright colours. Created from photographs of every day people eating ice cream (and one lollipop). Lynn Suzie Tracy Bryony

Brighton Folk from Yvonne J Foster's 'Ice Cream Artworks' series Brighton Folk Get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a portrait Ice Cream Artworks The Ice Cream Artworks are inspired by the illustrative style of the early 20th Century, especially the work of artist Coles Phillips, known for his stylish images and signature use of negative space. In 1908 he launched his “Fadeaway Girl” style used in advertisements and magazine covers. In the Brighton Folk series the images become more detailed, with greyscale instead of skin tone and muted colour backgrounds. Lila Vaughan Laurence Becky