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Census 1841 - 1911
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Trade Directories
History of Buttsbury
St. Mary's Church, Buttesbury
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History of Buttsbury >> 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
+ are landowners
John Callaway, tailor
Arthur Clark, surgeon
Mrs Lomax
Mrs Neale
+ Mr William Mott, Greenwoods
Whitbread Harrison Tuck, grocer, draper, and British wine, etc., dealer
Farmers.
James Archer
+ Thomas Bridge
John Clark
Joseph Collard
Miss Haines
Benjamin Hardy, White's Tyrell
Francis Hempleman
Inns and Taverns.
Bear, Joseph Barrett
Bakers.
John Cottee
Beerhouses.
John Bacon
Mary Smith
Blacksmiths.
William Brown
William Makings
Carpenters.
George Plume
Jesse Hume
Shoemakers.
John Bacon
C.P. Craphorn
Shopkeepers.
Jarnes Jarvis
William James Poulton
W.H. Tuck
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