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I’d be grateful if someone could help with this road name.  I have tried a variety of possible alternatives, including on websites relating to name changes and roads that no longer exist.  My eyes have gone square from scrutinising maps.  It is the address given for a burial, of Doris Rose Emma Double, at St Mary Magdalene, East Ham, on 31 March 1907.

Thank you.

Hi,

I wonder whether anyone has access to local papers which may have reported on the Worthing Sports of 1907.  I don't know whether these would have taken place on one day or over several.  I have found a reference to a 5 mile bike race on 21st August.  Specifically, I am interested in a mailcart competition.

Thank you.

Deborah

A house called, firstly Lessness Heights and then Lessness House used to exist at the end of what is now Priory Close in Belvedere (formerly Lessness).  I have the names of the families living there in each of the censuses going back to 1871.  A couple of servants were there in 1861, so presumably the family were elsewhere on census night.  Few houses are identified by name in the 1851 census. 

The house is named on a map of 1860, but it is unknown how long before that date it was built.  It was substantial, with a ball room.

It would be great if anyone can look up directories, tax records and suchlike that may indicate who lived there in 1860-ish and earlier.

Thank you.

Deborah

Does anybody know whether birthplace information in C19th censuses has ever been collated?

Hi,

I am looking for Katherine Fanny Cowtan, or her parents (Robert and Susannah/Susanna/Susan) in 1851 and 1861.  She was born in Newington in 1848 and baptised in St Pancras in 1852, along with her brother Frederick James.  Frederick was with his maternal grandparents (James and Elizabeth Roase) near Dorking in 1851 - but I have not been able to find Katherine or her parents in 1851 or in 1861.  Cowtan is easily mistranscribed and I think this may be the problem.

Katherine married William Thomas Vincent at St Nicholas, Plumstead in 1868 and she then lived in Plumstead for the rest of her life.  Her brother also married in Plumstead in 1874, but he and his wife lived in St Pancras and then Crouch End.

I have Katherine's parents at later dates in Mansfield Road, Hampstead.  Robert was born in St Pancras and seems to have remained in North London - apart from when Katherine and Frederick were born in Newington Butts.  Robert and Susannah married in Kennington in 1846.  He was a piano forte maker.  His father, William, was a cabinet maker who hailed from Canterbury as did most of the Cowtans I have come upon - some of them migrating to the Camberwell area and others to North London.  The Roses were from Dorking.

Thank you.