70 Strand St Whitehaven.

[bobbanks]

Hi
Can anyone check out the occupants of 70 Strand St during the years 1923 and 1927 inclusive  The surnames I am researching are Taylor and Lister.I will be very grateful for any help in this matter.
Thanks
Bob

[maryd]

Was this anywhere near Mark Lane? My grandmother had a bakehouse there....behind the old public baths.

Mary

[Geoff E]

Was this anywhere near Mark Lane? My grandmother had a bakehouse there....behind the old public baths.

Mary

Mark Lane ran from the harbour to Strand Street.

[maryd]

Yes, thats right

Have some documents relating to some of the neighbours but none with that address - can go to records office and look up what you are searching for - but its relativley recent - I could give it a go - let me know

Mary

[bobbanks]

Hello Mary,
Thanks very much for your reply and your kind offer.As you can probably tell  I am new to this Family History game.Do you think there is any chance that any info would be in the records or is it as you say too recent. I would be glad of any help at all on this as i seem to have come to a dead stop.
Thanks again
Bob

[Geoff E]

There are Electoral Lists in Whitehaven Records Office though not necessarily for those years.  The lists in those days would have males of 21+, but only females over 30 would be included.

There should also be street directories but people in rented accommodation were not always included in those days.

[bobbanks]

Hello Geoff
Thanks for the info it seems that things don't look to promising at the moment.I am not sure if they owned the house or were lodgers I would assume that they were lodgers.Do you know Strand St and if you d are the houses large or small. the reason I ask is that having traced my other great granddad i found that they lived in a house with seven other families it was pure luck that they were on the records at all.
Thanks again
Bob   

[maryd]

Strand St - as it is now - has 2, 3 and 4 story houses on one side, and generally modern buildings on the other - the side nearest to the harbour. There was a compulsory purchase arrangement for the houses on Mark Lane - to make way for the construction of Mark House - the tax and benefits office and, you are quite correct, there may have been several families living in one building. I know someone, in their 70's, who was born there......if you let me know the names, and rough dates, I could either go to the records office, or speak to someone who actually lived there.

Mary

[bobbanks]

Hello Mary,
Thanks for the offer the family I am interested in are the Taylors (Cecelia Susan in particular) and the Listers. my dad was born at 70 Strand St in 1922 and i know that Cecelia was still there in 1925 she was married in 1925 to John Lister and they had a child in the same year. I hope that this helps I know its a bit thin but info is proving to be very hard to get.
Thanks again
Bob