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 Terling
Terling, the Street c1960
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
History of Terling >> 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
Hon. Lord Rayleigh, Terling Place
Miss Emily Anne Strutt, Terling Place
Edmund Ardley, cooper and shopkeeper
Philip Ardley, blacksmith and machine owner and repairer
Adam Aves, shopkeeper
Samuel Butcher, shoe maker and shopkeeper
Henry Cawdron, schoolmaster
Robert Ellis, Esq.
Isaac Blyth, gent.
Arthur Boot Goodday, Esq., New House
Mrs. Lydia Harris, blacksmith
Rev. F. T. Hill, M.A. vicar
Walter Marshall, shoemaker
Thomas Middleditch, beer retailer
Rev. Francis Read Moore, (Independent).
James Pearson, parish clerk
Charles Richardson, steward to Lord Rayleigh
George Robinson, tailor, etc.
John Smith, victualler, Rayleigh Arms
James South, shopkeeper and carter
Sampson Steel, butcher and dealer
James Taylor, wheelwright
Joseph Turner, bricklayer
Henry Turner, carpenter
Charles Walford, shopkeeper
Terling
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps' Shop on Ebay.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.
Farmers.
George William Bolton, Leelands
John Church
Robert Balls
John Cottis, and maltster and beerhouse
John Cousins
Mrs. M.A. Felton
John Lewis
Walter Luff
John Loker, plough agent, etc.
John Smith
John Wood
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