1851/1861 Census Lookup Islington - Backhouse

[locksmith]

Hi

Could someone please lookup John Backhouse in the 1851 and/or 1861 census. He was born in Clerkenwell about 1812-15 and was living in Islington. Wife Mary Ann. Will  have sons John (about 14) and Robert about 11 in 1851.

Thanks

[Necromancer]

1851 - HO107/1500 Folio 675 Page 19 - Islington, St James

3, Cambridge Terrace
 
John Backhouse 39  Head 'Clerk to M Glen~~~~ (Builder*)' born Clerkenwell
Mary A Backhouse 41  Wife do
Mary A Backhouse 15  dau do
John Backhouse 14  son Cabinet Maker
Robert Backhouse 11  son scholar


* Enumerators note I believe

[Necromancer]

1861 - RG9/125 Folio 79 Page 29 - Islington St Mary

31, Manchester Terrace

John Backhouse 46 Head Decorator Clerkenwell
Mary A Backhouse 45  Wife St Olaves,
Robert Backhouse 21  son Decorator
Ann Pocock 22  Servant Chiswick

William Clevely 25  Boarder 'Wine & Cigar Importer' Bristol
Albert Clevely 18  Visitor 'Clerk Tobacco Merchant' Bristol

John Legg 30  Boarder 'Greek Merchants Clerk' Southampton
Robert Legg 25  Boarder 'London Docks Clerk' Southampton
William Legg 20  Boarder 'West India Merchants Clerk' do
 
 

[locksmith]

Many thanks, that is the family I was looking for. John the younger also became a clerk by the time he married. I wonder if a Decorator was something different then what with the servant there and the well off boarders. Mary A still had a servant in 1881, I thought at the time she must have just been staying with her

Simon