ROSE Family from St Albans

[alan.h]

My great grandparents were married in the Wesleyan Chapel in St Albans in 1899 and by 1911 they had moved to Edmonton, NE London. The addresses given at the time of their marriage and in the 1901 census are: 117 Stanhope Rd, 'Ivyleigh' Stanhope Rd, 43 Burnham St and 8 Sandridge Rd... all in St Albans. I don't know the area at all and would just like to get some 'feel' for the places where they began their married lives. What sort of areas would these have been in, were they old houses, big houses.... anything really!
Also my great-grandfather worked as a glass cutter & lead glazier. That sounds quite a specialised trade skill and I have no idea if there was a firm or factory in St Albans where he would have trained or worked as an apprentice.... Again, any info or suggested leads would be welcome.

[carol8353]

Hello Alan,

Have you tried http://maps.google.co.uk/maps and looking at the streets now and the types of house.Also if you look at the censuses you will get a feel for the sort of area by the jobs their neighbours did.

Someone with more local knowledge should be along soon 

Carol

[t mo]

hi both
carols right in using google maps for st look ups , as to his job it is possible that he worked in a builders merchant type place where they sold glass and also made up lead light panels and did repairs on them  try doing a google search for lead lights , as you say it was a bit of an art in doing it as it still is also he may have worked for a local builder , so not necessarily in a factory .

regards
trevor

[alan.h]

Thank you both, for your suggestions. Interesting too that both my great-grandmother and her sister married stained glass workers in St Albans within a few years of each other. The sisters came from Surrey and presumably moved to St Albans to work 'in service'.
Alan

[[Ray]]

Hi

The low numbers in Sandridge Road are a small terrace of old (i will call them) dwellings of "right" age.

Stanhope Road has been hacked about a bit since 1900 and may at some time have been re-numbered.
Stanhope Road (then) would seem a strange place to me.
Some very good housing in that street but at the end of the road? HM Prison, with the Prison Govenor and a Warder living just into Grimston(e) Road in the prison-owned housing.

Burnham Street (St Albans) doesn't ring a bell with me. 

Ray






It may help if you give a name or two for us to "spot".
I have assumed Charles Rose was one of the people you were interested in?

[carol8353]

There's a Burnham ROAD in St Albans today Ray,do you think that could be it?

[[Ray]]

Duh!

Of course not, why would I not have thought of that!!!???   
I'll put it down to excessive use yesterday of wood stain on my current project.
The words "high" and "kite" spring to mind.

Let's try again.................

R
 

[carol8353]

Duh!

Of course not, why would I not have thought of that!!!???   
I'll put it down to excessive use yesterday of wood stain on my current project.
The words "high" and "kite" spring to mind.

Let's try again.................

R

Well let's hope you're not tiling the bathroom 

[[Ray]]

(I thought I'd go for a trip on the Turpentine later.)




Seriously, for the Rose notes, this may be worth a read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Skeat
Skeat was the stained glass man from St Albans