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 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
Thomas Collis, ironmonger and tinner
Isaac Davey, joiner and builder
Rev. Henry Eve, M.A., Rectory
Robert Binks Jordison, surgeon and registrar
Rev. Joseph Morison, (Independent)
Charles Notes, corn miller; h West Thurrock
Thomas Priestley schoolmr.
John Prince, saddler, etc.
William Rainbird baker and shopkeeper
William Frederick Springham blacksmith
Thomas Wheeler, smith and farrier
John White, parish clerk
Harriet Woodthorpe, schoolmistress
Inns and Taverns.
Plough, George William Clarke
King's Head, Joseph Wright
Red Lion, Samuel Sweeting, carpenter
Beerhouses.
Thomas Hayden
Gamaliel Olley
Boot and Shoemakers.
James Burchell
George Matthews
George Mead
Thomas Mead
William Mead
James West
Butchers.
James Poston
Thomas Troll
Farmers.
Daniel Bishop
William Cliff
James Good
Abraham Manning
Henry Smith, jun., Glasscocks
Charles Sturgeon, Hall
Henry Sturgeon
Abraham Turp
Robert Wagstaff and Thomas Wagstaff
Stephen Wallis
Thomas Walters
Thomas Wordley
Grocers, etc.
Ann Partridge
Thomas Pugh
Henry Smith
Wheelwrights
William Elsdon
Arthur Sprongham
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