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Census 1841 - 1911
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Trade Directories
History of Stanford Rivers
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History of Stanford Rivers >> 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
Mrs Eliza Archer, victualler, White Bear
Elizabeth Barnard, beerhouse, and Post Office
Mr and Mrs Budden, National School
John Freeman, salesman, Wyletts
Rev. Isaac Jennings (Independent)
Robert William Low, and Mrs, master and matron, Ongar Union Workhouse
James Nottage, victualler, Green Man
William Pavitt, wheelwright
William Bayner, bricklayer
John Redington, corn miller
Henry Rudd, blacksmith
Rev. John Pound Smith, curate
Ven. Henry Tattam, LL.D. and D.D., archdeacon of Bedford, rural dean, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, and rector of Stanford Rivers
John Stane and William Stane, carpenters
Isaac Taylor, gentleman
James Woolmer, parish clerk
Boot and Shoemakers.
Edward Garrett
George Ives
Farmers.
Mrs Sarah Baker
John Baker
Mrs Mary Barton
Augustus Berkeley
Thomas Carter
John Cheer
David Christy
Charles Clark, Freeman's Farm
William Docwra
James Fitch
John Freeman
John Horide
Mary Jennings
William Kynaston, Littlebury
William Millbank and Arthur Joseph Millbank
James Alexander Noakes
John Palmer
James Stallibrass
Thomas Thorogood
Mrs C. Waters
Mrs M. Waters
Shopkeepers.
John Mitson
Jesse Wakeling
William Wilson
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