Ancestors lost in the crowd?
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Perhaps these articles on our website may help:
Census 1841 - 1911
Birth, Death and Marriage Registration
The London Gazette
Newspaper archives
Trade Directories
History of Billericay
Billericay, High Street 1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of Billericay >> Pigot's Directory 1823
Pigot's Directory of Essex 1823 - list of inhabitants.
If you wish to trace any of these people on the census returns, the nearest census date for this 1823 directory is the 1841 census. There are a number of commercial providers of census returns. These include:
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.
My ancestor lived here at this time, but why aren't they listed here? Answer: Not everyone appeared in a trade directory. Please read our Trade Directories article
Part 1. Continues Part 2
Inns, Taverns and Public Houses.
Black Bull Inn, Thomas Curtis
Chequers, Abraham Parker
Crown Inn, John Goodman
Red Lion, Mary Thompson
Sun Inn, Crisp Harridge
Three Horse Shoes, Ann Glasscock
White Hart, William Cornell
George Adams, surgeon
William Brown, governor of workhouse
William carter, surgeon
Thomas Clark, academy
Benjamin D’Aranda sen. and jun., surgeons
Miss Evans, ladies academy
John Martin, surgeon
Thomas Muggleston, officer of excise
Miss Oates, ladies academy
William Rolph, insurance agent
Henry Stanley, attorney
Rev. John Thomas, vicar of Great Burstead
John Thornton, independent minister
Miss Woodgate, ladies academy
Savage Barrell, grocer, etc.
Thomas Barrett, watchmaker and jeweller
Thomas Burrell sen., wine and brandy merchant
Ann Butcher, insurance agent
Billericay
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James Clayton, basket maker
James Cockerell, smith and farrier
Joseph Cole, butcher
John Collins, baker, etc.
Mark Coote, grocer and flour dealer
James Cornhill, basket maker
Benjamin Cox, straw hat maker
William Curtis sen., builder, brick maker
William Curtis jun., cabinet maker
William Curtis, bricklayer
John Daran, currier, etc.
Robert Davey, furniture broker
William Dennis, butcher
Jane Evans, milliner, etc.
George Finch, coach maker
Abraham Gover, butcher
Thomas Hammond, smith and farrier
William Hatch, gardener and seedsman
William Henniker, corn dealer
Elizabeth Henniker, milliner
Frances Hopwood, saddler
Part 1. Continues Part 2
Back to History of Billericay
Billericay
print published 1834
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