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 Bradfield
Bradfield, the Village c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of Bradfield >> White's Directory 1863
White's Directory of Essex 1863 - list of inhabitants.
If you wish to trace any of these people on the census returns, the nearest census date for this 1863 directory is the 1861 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
Lewis Agassiz, Esq., Stour Lodge
Edward Bloom, saddler, etc.
John Carter, rat catcher, etc.
Mrs Ann Cocksedge, National School
Mrs Ann Constable, White House
Charles Cousins, tailor and parish clerk
Patrick Darnells, corn miller, and at Harwich
Mrs Sarah Ann Eagle, Rose Cottage
John Gooch, thatcher
Joseph Goss, butcher
James Harrison, station master
Rev. Edward Hayne, D.D., vicar, Vicarage
Robert Kerridge wheelwright and beerhouse
William Henry Nunn, blacksmith
Dixey Polley, gardener
Francis Puxley, brickmaker
William Smith, victualler, Pough
Mrs J. Sparrow, market gardener
Charles Tweed, post master
John Webber, farm bailiff
Farmers.
Robert Brown, and corn miller and merchant
Joseph Bullimer, Brox and Bruces
Gainsbrough Ballimer, Malting House
Edward Eagle
John Balls
James English, and butcher
James Fearis, Nether Hall
William Garnard, Street Farm
John Hellen Green, Hall
John Green, Rag Marsh
James Hardy, Jagues Hall
George Davy Hempson, Lodge
John Peck
Henry Kerridge
Bakers.
William Balls
William Durrant
Beerhouses.
C. Byford, and butcher
S. Cracknell, and butcher
Samuel Goss
Robert Kerridge
Charles Parker
John Rainbert
Boot and Shoemakers.
William Abbott
James Cant
James Smith
Carpenters.
John Spink
Maurice Cutting
T. Cutting, and painter
Grocers.
John Scott Bacon
R. Edwards, and draper
James Lott
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