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Finding addresses for the 1920's

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 9 Feb 2014 12:07

There might be Trade Directories which can be searched by address for 1918/1919. It would only tell you the name of head of the household or Mr & Mrs XXX

They'd probably held at the nearest Archive or Library which has a Local Studies section.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 9 Feb 2014 10:02

The answer to your question is that there almost certainly isn't a way

The only info you can hope for is her address when she gave birth .......and the same when she married

I would have thought it unlikely that she would, in any case, have been living with the man who fathered her child...................much more likely to have been in service - or in lodgings somewhere

Inky1

Inky1 Report 8 Feb 2014 22:35

No registers were produced during WW1
Prior to women getting the same rights as men, some were on the ER's. Mainly (or perhaps only?) when they had property. Such ladies were often (but not always) widows who had inherited a property.

Gaynor

Gaynor Report 8 Feb 2014 18:03

Hi - I will get mum's birth cert.

Sorry should have made it more clear The question was does anyone know of how to find someone's address from around 1915 to 1920 in Birmingham - I did say she would not be on the electoral register as the earliest records I have found are from 1920 and she was not old enough to vote and unmarried then Oh well- back to the drawing board :-(

jax

jax Report 8 Feb 2014 17:42

Grandmother was born 1896...Mother was born 1917ish So as said Mothers birth cert should show an address

KempinaPartyhat

KempinaPartyhat Report 8 Feb 2014 17:38

I,m lost was your mother born Phyllis Hughes in 1898?

Coz that wont tell you wher she was in 1917

jax

jax Report 8 Feb 2014 17:31

Women didn't get the vote until 1918 and they had to be 30 I believe

Gaynor

Gaynor Report 8 Feb 2014 16:28

Just thought of this - I will have to obtain a full copy - she destroyed the original as it had that she was illegitimate on it. I was trying to find out who my naughty nan was living with ;-)

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 8 Feb 2014 16:25

Doesnt your mums birth cert give an address for her at the time ?

Gaynor

Gaynor Report 8 Feb 2014 16:23

Hi

Phyllis Hughes brn 1896 in Kidderminster, She lived with her parents Lucy and James in Erdington and Aston and have her on the 1911 census. She married a Daniel Abbot in 1921. However I am trying to see where she was living between 1917 - 1919 as this is when she had my mum and she was ' living in sin'. it would have been in th Aston area of Birmingham. Just wondered if there were any other list;s lurking somewhere that someone had access to :-S

patchem

patchem Report 8 Feb 2014 16:19

Do you know what she was doing then, who she may have been living with, etc etc as that could influence her accommodation?

KempinaPartyhat

KempinaPartyhat Report 8 Feb 2014 16:15

Have you tried the ancestry as it sometime has the elecrol rolls.....

Whats her name and date of birth !!

Gaynor

Gaynor Report 8 Feb 2014 16:06

Hi
has anyone got any idea;s on finding where my grandmother would have lived from about 1916 to 1920? She lived in Aston Birmingham and would not have been on the electrol register then?

Any idea's?