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Little King Street Hockley

Thomas is also listed at that address as a carpenter in the 1861 and 1862 Corporation directories, showing that he worked for himself, and was not an employee. Other directories do not mention him (at least not as a carpenter) , but the other directories are not so comprehensive of very small businesses
 
MWS said:
I'd speculate that they possibly lived at no. 11 itself, not a back house, the ditto marks being just for Little King St. And the following 2 houses being the back houses behind no. 11.

Either way it's nice to have numbers that early.
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Thanks, yes I'm sure you're right. Makes perfect sense now that I have noticed there are two #2 back houses on the same page!
 
In the 1851 Census Thomas & Hannah lived at 18 Barr Street with 6 of the kids,
in the 1871 census he is still at Little King Street, but interestingly I have his death place (in 1872) as #10 LKS - so perhaps he expanded his carpentry shop and was working next door on his death (aged 60)?
That's just made the names above his house (on the 1861 census image that I posted above) more interesting! I can't work them out though, I thought it said Ward or Hardy at the top, now I'm wondering if that first name is Catherine Hands ? I think it says she is a servant, and what does it say after Alfred at #10?!
 
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