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Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« on: Wednesday 22 March 23 09:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi readers!
I had a gt. uncle who was resident at 8 Homer Yard, according to the 1939 Register. I have tried looking around various sites and maps, but have not had any luck about where Homer Yard was in Saffron Walden, or what was in Homer Yard, such as alms houses or a workhouse or what. He was described as being 'incapacitated', that why I thought of those sorts of places, or even a Doss house. He'd been an agricultural worker and I've considered that he may have had an accident to cause the incapacity.
Has anyone any knowledge about Homer Yard?

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 09:34 GMT (UK) »
Looking at the register and the other households in the yard, it was most likely an area of housing situated close to the High Street. Many of these densely-packed areas of housing used to exist in towns, in some cases named after the owner or builder of the housing. I certainly don’t think he was in an almshouse or workhouse. This map doesn’t name it but does show yard-like areas off the High Street:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/104191263

Dave :)

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 09:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Davedrave.
Thanks for that.
That was a type of 'street' that I had considered as the term 'yard' was so often given to these little, almost alleyways, wasn't it, especially in the bigger cities, as with the term 'wynd' in Scotland. Being 'incapacitated' he was likely to be impoverished, even though it was in the near-mid 1900s, and these places existed for so long. Gran never spoke much about her family, not did my father, so I think they would have been self-conscious about his circumstances. We lived in NW Kent.

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 10:08 GMT (UK) »
Looking at the register and the other households in the yard, it was most likely an area of housing situated close to the High Street. Many of these densely-packed areas of housing used to exist in towns, in some cases named after the owner or builder of the housing. I certainly don’t think he was in an almshouse or workhouse. This map doesn’t name it but does show yard-like areas off the High Street:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/104191263

Dave :)

Are you sure that the address is actually in the town of Saffron Walden, rather than elsewhere within Saffron Walden rural district. There is a High street in just about every village. Look at the register and look at the heading of the previous page.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott


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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 10:37 GMT (UK) »
Apologies. Yes, looking again, it looks most likely to be in the village of Manuden, north of Bishop’s Stortford.

Dave  :)

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 10:46 GMT (UK) »
Well, Davedrave, that makes a lot more sense as Manuden is the village that branch of the Tants came from. There's quite a few of them and their branches with the Petchy/Peacheys and others.
Thanks again. I'll explore that avenue.
Cheers.

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 11:08 GMT (UK) »
Well, Davedrave, that makes a lot more sense as Manuden is the village that branch of the Tants came from. There's quite a few of them and their branches with the Petchy/Peacheys and others.
Thanks again. I'll explore that avenue.
Cheers.

I don’t feel I can really take credit for finding it, since it was LizzieL who pointed out my blunder, but I’m pleased we’ve got there eventually.

Dave  :)

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 March 23 08:19 GMT (UK) »
Hello both LizzieL and Davedrave.
 I hadn't read back completely, and what I've now read satisfies me. On the copy of the 1939 Registration that I saw as a discovery in MyHeritage there was only Charles Tant's name, and there didn't seem to be a viewable copy of the original, as with the Census and ones I had seen for my other family members. I looked for other names and details to give me the clue because I had seen those sort of details with other F/T individuals I was researching.
This twice now that 'RootsChat has helped me over a 'hump'.
Thanks again.

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Re: Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 March 23 12:27 GMT (UK) »
Herts and Essex Observer
9 newspaper hits for the above paper (on BNA) for "Homer's Yard, Manuden" are returned when searching under the search key" Homers Yard" (1930-1944). But when viewing the actual newspaper article the name is clearly "Horner's Yard". Several relate to the activities of the parish church (St Mary's?).

2 March 1935
Manuden Annual Church Meeting
" ... It was decided to begin levelling of graves, under Faculty, at the back of Horner's Yard ..."

21 Mar 1936
Annual Meeting Manuden Church
" ... A tomb broken some years ago by fall of a tree had been repaired and a length of neat iron fence near Horner's Yard had been erected. Mr Tant, the groundsman, to act. Gravestones in the area treated are to be left upright and bases rammed but not cemented" ..."