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From: "Judy Lester" <>
Subject: Re: [LON] Luke & Mary Reaney (Nee Mean)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:52:01 -0000
In-Reply-To: <41435E2E7C9F425DB75E314B2207CEB4@ncs>


Rick, it's very helpful if you can give the census reference.

Presumably this is the family?

RG9; Piece: 117; Folio: 54; Page: 36
Lower Cambridge Street, St Pancras

Name: Ann Reany
Age: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1806
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Lake
Gender: Female
Where born: Cambridgeshire, England
Civil parish: St Pancras
Ecclesiastical parish: St Thomas
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Registration district: Pancras
Sub-registration district: Camden Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Household schedule number: 182
Household Members:
Name Age
Lake Reany 59
Ann Reany 55
Elisa Reany 23
Emma Reany 21

I would agree with Ancestry's transcription of Cambridgeshire for Ann's
place of birth.

The Mendicity Society was a charitable organisation set up to deal with
begging on the streets, vagrants etc. There's a note here (from 1850), but
Googling will find you a lot more information.
http://www.victorianlondon.org/charities/mendicitysociety.htm

HTH

Judy
London, UK


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of Rick Hedger

Can any one help decipher my Gr Gr Grandmother's place of Birth from the
1861 Census.

I have her listed in my Tree as
Ann Mean
Born: Abt. 1806 Location unknown
Married: Luke Reaney 1827 St Mary's St Marylebone
Died: Unconfirmed, but probably 1st quarter of 1873 in Hanover Square.

Also listed in the same census, her Husband Luke's, occupation is described
as a Constable in Mendicity Office can any one tell me where or what this
is. I have a VERY limited knowledge of London Geography & rely heavily on an
old London Street Directory

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