88 Willis Street, House no5, & Francis Street, 1 Ashted Place, Duddeston

[Jane T]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and am searching for the above addresses which were shown for my Coope family on the 1871 & 1881 census. The double addressing is new to me. The family also lived on Henry St, William Coope was a glass cutter and I assumed he worked at the nearby Union Glass Works.
Were these back-to-back houses and the addresses were for the courtyard door number? I cannot find anything on Ashted Place, only Ashted Row.

This forum is awesome!
Jane

 

[mikejee]

elow is a map (c 1910) showing Ashted Place, Francis St

 

[mikejee]

Below is a map (c 1888) showing Ashted Place, Francis St in red . Presumably no 1 was the one nearest the road. Also , in blue is no 88 Willis St. the green houses (which look rather small), even for the period must be the back houses, but there are only 3 shown. IKt is possible that there were more houess in the court in 1871 , or, more likely that the main building, no 88, was subdivided.

 

[Jane T]

I'm not sure what I'm doing trying to reply, but am very grateful for the information. It is so specific. That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for being so prompt. I found the photos on a different thread to be very eye-opening. After William died from lung disease his wife and 2 daughters went to the Aston Union Workhouse where she died. A daughter, my husband's grandmother, emigrated to Canada or the US as a child, eventually marrying in Detroit and moving to Cleveland. Thank you for helping us learn about her childhood, something she never talked about.

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[Bill Vale]

Hello Mike
I would like to know if you have any info on Spooner street Vauxhall, my family lived at number 26 in the 1920's up to 1958 when the council
made a compulsory order to purchase the properties

 

[mikejee]

Bill
not sure what you want, but here are two maps of Spooner st, in 1889 (with a number of the houses including 26 numbered) and a smaller scale one c1951 with no 26 numbered.