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ellie

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My Cooper ancestors lived at 40 Digby Street Birmingham 1851. The father, Samuel was a snuffer maker.
1n 1861 the familly was at 23 Digby St Birmingham.
In 1871, Samuel's son, John George Cooper and his family are now living at 23 Digby Street. John George is now listed as a Snuffer Maker.

Was it usual for a family to move back and forwards like this. Someone suggested that one of the addresses may ahve been a workplace and the family was living there.

Could anyone help?
 
Actually Ellie there is someone else apparently moving about. I looked at the 1855 directory to see what it said. It gave Samuel Cooper. snuffers maker at 23. Digby st . No 40 was Edward Shakespeare. jewellery tool maker. On going back to the 1849 directory (which doesn't list by streets, only by name and profession). there is no Samuel Cooper, snuffers maker listed (there is a confectioner , but he is listed in addition in the 1855 directory, so different one). Edward Shakespeare is then at no 14 Digby st. I just wondered if the street had been renumbered. I haven't come accross this this early (it happened in a lot of streets 1880-90 or so), but it is a possibility, with two occupants changing nos in the same street.
In the 1855 directory, looking in the list by name, it often gives a work and then home address directly after in the same entry, where this is different. There was only one address for Samuel (which doesn't prove anything). However there was another Samuel Cooper snuffers maker listed at 14 Court moland st as a separate entry. This, I would expect to mean two separate people. Was his father also a Samuel who was a snuffer maker ? Or it could be an error making it look like two separate people.
Mike
 
I have samuel Cooper( father of John George) as a snuffer maker in 1851 living at 40 Digby Street and the same Samuel cooper snuffer maker in 1881 at 54 Morland/ Moland Street.

I appear to have 2 spelling s for this street, unless they are 2 different streets.
 
I think its Moland St. Don't know of a morland st. though spelling wasn't always very reproducable then so some might have written it as morland st
Mike
 
ellie, if you put the word 'Moland' into the search box (Blue band top right side of this page) there are a number of posts about Moland St and a couple of maps and pictures already to be found on the forum.

Hope this is of help to you :)
 
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