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 Debden
Debden, the Fox c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of Debden >> 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
Debden
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps' Shop on Ebay.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.
John Boatman, smith and victualler, Ship
Joseph Bunting, corn miller, etc.
Isaac Foster, bricklayer
Sophia Francis, schoolmistress
Rev. Ambrose William Hall, M.A., rector
Joseph Housden and Mrs, National School
Allen Kitteridge, wheelwright
Douglas Lane, Esq., Debden Hall
John Newling, victualler, White Hart
Thomas Perrin, bricklayer
Mr John Randall
Mrs Hawley
John Thomason, carpenter and parish clerk
Farmers.
William Andrew
Joseph Barltrop
John Barnard
Henry Bass
William Bass
John Boatman
Philip Clarke
William Clarke
John Edwick
Peter Gilder
James Holland
John Holland
Joseph Holland
Richard Perry
Robert Perry
Thomas Pool
George Smith
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith, jun.
Joseph Starling
Robert Stubbing
Peter Thomason
Benjamin Thurgood
Joseph Thurgood
Robert Tofts, Hall Farm
Elizabeth Willett
Beerhouses.
Ann Barltrop
Josa Kitteridge
James Tant
Debden Hall
print published 1834
Boot and Shoemakers.
Charles Johns
Charles Lindsell
George Simpson
Shopkeepers.
Luke Holgate
Mary Lacey
Margaret Marten
William Moull
Thomas Tant
Tailors.
Thomas Bright
James Monk
Stephen Monk
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