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 Lambourne and Abridge
Abridge, Main Road c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of Lambourne and Abridge >> 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
Abridge
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Quality reproductions of old photographs.
John Morgan Adlam, tailor
Francis Brown, tailor and grocer
John Brown, schoolmaster
Richard Bryand, shoemaker
James Cavill, wheelwright
Thomas Champness, auctioneer, surveyor, and estate agent
William Clark, victualler, Blue Boar
Stephen Clements, pork butcher
Charles Davenport, surgeon
James Eastwood, maltster
Rev. James Goodwin B.D., Rectory
William Hanchett, carrier
Charles Higgs, carpenter and grocer
Richard Jeffrey, baker and corn dealer
John Jones, carpenter and builder
William Joseph Lockwood Esq., Bishop's Hall
John Mead, draper, grocer, and insurance agent
Edwin Morgan, ale and porter brewer
Jeremiah Noble, smith and farrier
Isaac Rayner, tailor
John Skikelthorpe, plumber and glazier
William Styles, brickmaker
William Wilson, saddler, etc.
Farmers.
James Clark, St. John's Farm
Richard Clark, Great Dews
Samuel Crane, Arnolds
Edward Elliott, Patch Farm
William Charles Lewis
John Andrews
Philip Taylor
Catherine Taylor
Richard Wilson
William Wooton
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