Cunningham family

[jmadone]

I'm having trouble with reading the 1851 entry for my ancestors David Cunningham, his wife and sister in law. I can't decipher the street name on the entry. Could it be Smith Street?


Can anyone help please?

 

[A Sparks]

Mill Street?
I don't know if there is one in that Municipal area - sure someone else would know.

 

[MWS]

Putting Cunningham, Smith Street and Bham in the appropriate search boxes on Findmypast results in David & his wife.

 

[mikejee]

Below is the PO directory for Smith St c 1849. You can see that at no 96 is Willliam Brocklington, who is a little below Mr Cunningham in the list . Thomas Ryder, beer retailer appears several pages further on in the census at 103. Therefore the census is going down the numbering in the street,Thomas Bartlam, jeweller appears several pages before Mr Cunningham. The Numbering has not changed, and it is possible to definitely assign some buildings to the c1889 map below. The school was not there in 1851, and probably the site was occupied by courts. But it can be said that Cunninghams were between no 78 and 101 Smith St

 

[jmadone]

Thank you Mike. That's really great.

 

[Janet Hunt]

I'm having trouble with reading the 1851 entry for my ancestors David Cunningham, his wife and sister in law. I can't decipher the street name on the entry. Could it be Smith Street?
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Can anyone help please?

Its Mill Street, it is in Birmingham near corner of Aston Road and Dartmouth Middleway, one of my relatives was also listed as being born/ living there. It is now small business units on that street.

 

[jmadone]

Its Mill Street, it is in Birmingham near corner of Aston Road and Dartmouth Middleway, one of my relatives was also listed as being born/ living there. It is now small business units on that street.

Thanks for that Janet but that's muddied the waters a bit now. Smith Street or Mill st. More investigation I think!

 

[MWS]

The census clip is Smith St, as proven above (post #3 & #4).

 

[Astoness]

yes no question its smith st in the parish of st george..very old street indeed...for interest we do have a thread for smith st with quite a few old photos before demolision

lyn