History of Bardfield Saling

St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Bardfield Saling.
©Robert Edwards
Photograph by kind permission of Robert Edwards,
contributor to the Geograph Project
History of Bardfield Saling >> Post Office Directory 1874
Post Office Directory of Essex 1874 - list of inhabitants.
If you wish to trace any of these people on the census returns, the nearest census date for this 1874 directory is the 1871 census. This can be obtained from ancestry.co.uk: 1871 England Census; or, genesreunited.co.uk: 1871 census
Note: the directory lists the names in the following order: Surname, First Name. It also abbreviates names. These have been reversed and typed in full to assist research.
Rev. Robert Stewart Dobson, M.A
William Adams, farmer
George Drane, blacksmith
James Howland, shopkeeper
John Metson, farmer, Bett's Farm
Stephen Metson, farmer, Purples
Henry Phillips, jun., miller
Joseph Smith, farmer and landowner
William Thorogood, beer retailer