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History of Frating

Frating Village Hall
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History of Frating >> White's Directory 1863
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
Robert Almond, blacksmith
Ezra Avis, boot and shoe maker
Gregory Cole, bricklayer
George Cowell, bricklayer
Rev. Richard Duffield, B.D., rector and rural dean
James Hagger, wheelwright
Rev. Robert Kendall, M.A., curate
Jonathan Knopp, parish clerk
William Matthews, maltster
Eliza Rawlinson, schoolmistress
Robert Read, excise officer
James Robert Warren, victualler, King's Arms
James Wright, shopkeeper
Farmers.
William Abbott
Mrs Mary Bacon
William Boghurst, Frating Abbey
Thomas Henry Brown; h Great Bentley
William Cross, Ivy Cottage
Robert Glanfield
George Thompson
Joseph Kirkby, Moverons Hall
William Smith, Lodge
James Vince
Philip Vincent, Frating Hall
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