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From: Rob Dewsall <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] 30 westbourne terrace in 1851When were. PO directories released before and after 1851.
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:52:24 +0000
References: <006e01c17ccc$026aa280$5a247018@ym1.on.wave.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <006e01c17ccc$026aa280$5a247018@ym1.on.wave.home.com>


Hi Beth & List

In article <006e01c17ccc$026aa280$>, beth
wearing <> writes
>Hi All
>
>I am really glad that I did not buy the 1851 London P0 Directory as although
>according to it my Thomas RISHWORTH was at 30 Westbourne Terrace, according to
>the Index to the 1851 census he is not there, so I am back at square one with
>this family after a brief moment of euphoria.

Sorry if this sounds flippant, but maybe he moved house between the
census date and the date that Kelly's cohorts knocked his door during
their survey! Remember too that there was a *huge* amount of moving
around in London at this time due to street clearances, road and rail
building etc.

Many of the people made 'homeless' by these sort of events didn't move
very far at all, often just a couple of hundred yards. So the address
in the 1851 PO Directory 'could' be a good starting point, but could
equally not be. That's the whole point of using these directories, it
gives you a head start, after all how would you have known to look at 30
Westbourne Terrace without the information in the directory (grin).

>What is the % of mistakes on
>censii and their indexes?.

Anybody's guess. Mistakes will usually have been made by a transcriber
rather than the actual enumerators though. By 'transcriber' I mean the
people who collated the actual census forms and entered the details into
the enumerators' books and also the later indexers of those books.

>At what intervals did these PO Directories come out

Every year from 1799, but just try getting hold of one! These books
really are *rare* so CD facsimiles are absolutely invaluable.

Anyway, Thos RISHWORTH was at 30 Westbourne ter. in the Court Directory
section of the 1848 PO Directory.

In the 1856 he is not in the court directory, but there is a James
RISHWORTH at 24 Finchley New Rd in there. A relative perhaps?

>This family always seems to be one step ahead of me all the way, if I
>didn't know better I would say they were hiding on purpose!!!

They do that, don't they! All part of the fun I guess;-)

Best wishes
--
Rob Dewsall
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