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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Brinklow
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:31:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: <00c001c249fb$fd670000$543a4518@gv.shawcable.net>

In message <00c001c249fb$fd670000$>, Roy Wood
<> writes
>I have a grandfather who on the l88l census gave his address as Eaton Row.
>His occupation is listed as Coachman. Would this mean that Eaton Row was a
>Stabling yard and his lodging were there? He worked for a family in Lower
>Belgrave Street.

Mews is the usual name for a stable and/or servants'living area, usually
a cul de sac immediately behind a mansion. Row is normally a line of
terrace (linked) housing forming part of a road. BUT, in this case,
Eaton Row is longer than usual and backs on to three-quarters of the
length of Lower Belgrave St, (off Eaton Square, which is not square, but
oblong). There was a broad bit, near the Grosvenor St end, and a
narrower section with an exit onto Lower Belgrave St itself

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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