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Offline Waddy1952

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« on: Saturday 16 October 21 19:28 BST (UK) »
 Can anyone tell me how I find details of businesses I believe family members used to run?

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Re: Business
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 October 21 08:22 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat  :D

Have you thought about looking in Kelly's Directories?  Link below that explains about them.

http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4

Ancestry have this information so if you have a sub to Ancestry you could look there as well. Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Business
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 October 21 10:16 BST (UK) »
Have you thought of looking at newspaper archives for advertisements?
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Business
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 17 October 21 14:17 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat

You need to give a timescale and location plus details of the type of business. 

If giving the names of the family members involved - please be aware that Rootschat has a strict "no living persons"  policy so do not include details of any living persons
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Carlin (Ireland & Liverpool) Doughty & Wright (Liverpool) Dick & Park (Scotland & Liverpool)
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