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Mercer Row, Louth
« on: Wednesday 30 April 08 22:19 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone

30 Mercer Row, Louth Huh

Please can anyone help me find out what business/who was at this address around 1922?  Any help is really appreciated.

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Re: Mercer Row, Louth
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 01 May 08 00:47 BST (UK) »
I think you will find it was:

Francis Riggall Mawer, Butcher.

That is an entry for 30 Mercer Row in both the 1913 and 1930 editions of Kelly's Directory.

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Re: Mercer Row, Louth
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 01 May 08 08:05 BST (UK) »
He was there in 1901 too http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,285995.0.html
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Re: Mercer Row, Louth
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 01 May 08 18:29 BST (UK) »
Hi

Thanks both for your replies.  I knew about the 1901 census already, thanks GeoffE, I was wondering if it had changed hands (maybe to her parents! Smiley but unfortunately not!)

Do you think if a single woman was living at that address, she would have worked there, or do you think she could have lived in a flat above the shop or something?  Her marriage certificate didn't show an occupation.

Thanks again.
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Re: Mercer Row, Louth
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 01 May 08 19:11 BST (UK) »
1933 Kelly's
Mawer Fras. Riggall, butcher, 30 Mercer Row, Tel No.57
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Re: Mercer Row, Louth
« Reply #5 on: Friday 02 May 08 10:13 BST (UK) »

I would have thought it unlikely that, if she simply worked in the butcher's shop, she would have given that as her address on her marriage certificate.  More likely that she lived at the same address, in a flat over the shop.  I presume that you have ruled out any family connection with the Mr Mawer, the butcher?

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 02 May 08 10:34 BST (UK) »

Go to www.francisfrith.com/search/england/lincolnshire/louth/photos and you will find several old photos of Mercer Row in the 1950s/1960s.  The shops all appear to have had accommodation above them, usually two storeys.  So I think this is the answer to your puzzle - namely that she happened to live in accommodation above No 30.

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