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I am trying to trace who this individual is and whether she may be a relative of mine.

My great grandfather Alfred John Jones was a tailor in the early 1900s. In the 1915/16 Wrights Directory of Nottingham his address is recorded as 49 Radford Boulevard. Also at this address is a Miss Lucy Jones, costumier. Her other address is recorded as Beswick Chambers, 53a Upper Parliament Street, which is also the same address as a company called Jones Brothers, tailors. This address structure is the same in the 1913/14 Wrights Directory except there is no Jones Brothers company. Lucy does not feature in the 1910/11 Directory.

The dilemma is that Lucy does not appear to be direct or even extended family (as far as I can see) nor does my great grandfather appear to have had any relatives in the tailoring trade (as far as I am aware). I do not know how old Lucy is or where she was born. There is a very 'slightly possible' in the 1901 census but that is only down to location (born in Shropshire then resident in Nottingham) but I can not find any family connection at all.

My question is: do I have enough information here to be able to find out significantly more about her through other sources, such as electoral roll or property leasing records? I live nowhere near Nottingham, so libraries are not an option, and the archive centre seems to have very hefty research charges, especially for what could turn out to be speculative searches.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Clive

I am trying to pinpoint the (former) site of the CG station at St Michael's Hastings. One of my ancestors, Richard Squire, was located there at the time of the 1861 census (RG9/561 Folio 210 Page 75), although his service record calls it Bexhill station.

The address run in to the CG station includes Bohemia Road, now the A21, then Dorset Place and St Michael's Place, all of which I have found. This is followed by Garden Cottages and the Officer's house then the Coastguard station. Would this put it on or near White Rock Road where it meets Carlisle Parade?

Thanks

Clive

This is a complicated piece of research because it involves births in one county (Leicestershire) but baptisms in another county pre-1837 (Mike in Leicester has already had some input to this query on the Nottinghamshire board), so I will try to keep it simple in the first instance. I have the baptism records of the Lawson children and the census-derived information about their county of birth - at this stage I do not think it would add anything to include them.

Firstly, I am trying to find out whether I can discover the parent and occupation of the groom in these two marriages:

i) George Lawson 10th April 1798 to a Rebecca Holmes at St Nicholas Leicester;
ii) St Mary de Magdalene Parish Knighton. Leicester. Banns & Marriage Registers: ANNO DOMINI 1801. Entry No. Six. George Lawson & Susanna Riley Both of this Parish. Married in this Church following Banns Published without Prohibition. On Sunday February 22nd. March 1st.& 8th. By me :- Wm. Hayton. Curate.
This Fifteenth day March. One Thousand Eight Hundred and One.
George Lawson. .... WIDOWER. Susanna Riley. .... Spinster.
George signed by own signature =  Geo. Lawson.
Susanna signed by own signature = Susanna Riley.
Wit’s :~  John Riley & William Riley. (Information supplied by Mike in Leicester 8th March 2007)

Secondly, where should I look for Leicestershire death records for Rebecca Lawson between 1798-1801?

To help me build the ancestry of George Lawson, I need to discover whether these two George Lawsons are one and the same, even if only to eliminate possible connections. He is dead by the time of the 1841 census, probably buried in Nottingham.

Thanks

Clive

I am trying to find any information on an inmate in the Shoreham workhouse, who features in the 1861 census. He may be a significant relative of mine and may have absconded from here and changed his name to avoid being found. His name is John Burgess, aged 11 born Westminster St Margaret. The census ref is RG9/603 Folio 112 Page 40. I am following this particular trail because of some coincidental dates, place of birth and, above all, names: there is a family called Gravett resident here and he changed his name to John Gayett. I am waiting for a copy of his birth certificate to see if that casts any further light. His workhouse records would be of great help even if they only serve to eliminate him as a possibility.

I have been in touch with the East Sussex Archives but it seems that they only have guardian minutes covering this date (1835-1930 ref G 9/1a/1-59). I have followed their recommendations and searched the A2A and workhouses.org sites without success.

I have two main questions: is there anywhere else I could try for these workhouse records; and, it is possible he may have been transferred to a local training ship - do any records exist for those?

Thanks in advance