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 South Ockendon
South Ockendon, the Windmill c1960
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of South Ockendon >> 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
David Beard, baker
Nicholas Birch, tailor and draper
Rev. Anthony Brown, Independent Minister
Thomas Collis, tinner and brazier
Abraham Davey, builder, carpenter, etc.
William Deville, bricklayer
William Drayton and Edward Fisk, farriers
William Elsdon, wheelwright
Rev. Henry Eve M.A., Rectory
Charles Everett, policeman
William Horncastle, schoolmaster
Robert Binks Jordison, surgeon and registrar
Josiah Kirkham, saddler, etc.
William May, gentleman
William Newman, gentleman
William Pain, blacksmith
Mr. James Saward
Mrs. Sarah Stacey
Mr. Charles Sturgeon, Hall
Thomas Bennett Sturgeon, miller, farmer and breeder, Hall
Mrs. R. Sweeting
John White, parish clerk
Samuel Sweeting, joiner and victualler, Red Lion
Charles Willey and Isaac Willey, victuallers, Plough
Joseph wright, victualler, King's Head
Beerhouses.
Abraham Coe
Gamaliel Olley
Boot and Shoe makers.
John Hill
George Matthew
Thomas Mead
Anthony Thorogood
Butchers.
John Coppen
James Poston
Grocers and Drapers.
James Good
Ann Partridge
Henry Smith
Farmers.
James Barker
Daniel Bishop
Samuel Burchell
James Chapman
George Clarke
Joshua Clarke
John Cliff
William Cliff, Benton's Green
George Cook
Samuel Cranfield
Joseph Sandle
Henry smith, Glascocks
James Staines
T.B. Sturgeon
Thomas Waters
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