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Census 1841 - 1911
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Trade Directories
History of Chigwell Row
Chigwell Row, Village School and Common c1955
Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith.
History of Chigwell Row >> White's Directory 1848
White's Directory of Essex 1848 - list of inhabitants.
If you wish to trace any of these people on the census returns, the nearest census date for this 1848 directory is the 1851 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
Chigwell Row
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps' Shop on Ebay.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.
Benjamin Barnes, gentleman
Richard Aspinall, gentleman
John Belling, gentleman
Edward Brooks, gentleman
John Burton, piano-forte manufacturer
Edmund Buxton, Esq., Forest House
Francis Clark, gentleman, Chapel House
William Clark, brewer, etc.
Samuel Crawley, wheelwright
Mr. Samuel Dyer
John Harrison, Esq
Rev. Thomas Hill, (Independent minister)
John Hodgson, Esquire, The Bowles
John Jones, gentleman
Mr. Job Keene
Mr. Edward Langley
John Liles, gentleman
Joseph Norbury
Daniel Partridge, builder
Sophia Powling, coach owner
Captain Henry Reynell
John Rowe, shoemaker
James Shelley, baker, Post Office
William John Smith, brewer
Misses Stone
Joseph Green Walford, Esq., Woodlands
Mary Saville, Maypole PH
Jane Howe, school mistress
Thomas Hills (and shoemaker)
William Queray, beer house
Richard Lambert, blacksmith
Richard Maryon, blacksmith
John Shepherd, butcher
William Clark, grocer
Francis Parker, grocer
William Shepherd, farmer
Arthur Thurgood, surgeon
Thomas Winter, surgeon
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