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I have found Thomas Reay b1862 Wigton livng with brother James Reay b 1855 Dornock and niece Jennie Knox on 1911 Census transcript as living 41 Buddle Street Wallsend the actual image shows the address as 41 Evelyn Street Wallsend.

Which address would be the correct one...????

I cannot locate either brother on 1901 Census but have all them on all previous ones

Thomas Reay

England and Wales Census, 1901

Name Thomas Reay
Event Type Census
Event Date 31 Mar 1901
Event Place Westlinton, Cumberland, England
County Cumberland
Civil Parish Westlinton
Ecclesiastical Parish Blackford St John Baptist
Sub-District Low Longtown
Registration District Longtown
Residence Note Blackford
Gender Male
Age 39
Occupation ROADMAN
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Birth Year (Estimated) 1862
Birthplace Scotland
Schedule Type 7
Page Number 2


Thomas Reay Head M 39 Scotland
Isabella Reay Daughter F 17 Brampton, Cumberland
Walter Reay Son M 15 Stanwix, Cumberland
Janet Reay Sister F 44 Longtown, Cumberland

James Reay

England and Wales Census, 1881

Name James Reay
Age (Original) 25
Gender Male
Birth Year 1856
Birthplace Scotland
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Marital Status Single
Occupation General Labourer
Address Church Pit Houses
Event Place Wallsend, Northumberland, England
Record Type Household
Affiliate Publication Number RG11
Piece/Folio 5071 / 27
Page Number 52

William Reay Head M 54 Scotland
Jane Reay Wife F 51 Scotland
James Reay Son M 25 Scotland
Joseph Reay Son M 22 Scotland
Thomas Reay Son M 20 Do?On, Cumberland, England
John Reay Son M 17 Bolton, Cumberland, England
Irving Reay Daughter F 15 Bolton, Cumberland, England
Mary Reay Daughter F 10 Brampton, Cumberland, England
Richard Reay Son M 8 Wallsend, Northumberland, England

Name James Reay
County Westmorland
Event Type Census
Event Date 1861
Sub-District 1 Ambleside
Parish Ambleside Above Stock
Registration District Kendal
Age 5
Gender Male
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Birthplace Scotland
Schedule Type Household

James Reay

England and Wales Census, 1891

Name James Reay
Event Type Census
Event Date 1891
County Cumberland
Parish BRAMPTON
Ecclesiastical Parish BRAMPTON
Sub-District BRAMPTON
Registration District BRAMPTON
Gender Male
Age 58
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Birthplace Scotland
Schedule Type Household

Jennie Knox

England and Wales Census, 1901

Name Jennie Knox
Event Type Census
Event Date 31 Mar 1901
Event Place Wallsend, Northumberland, England
County Northumberland
Civil Parish Wallsend
Ecclesiastical Parish St Lukes
Sub-District Wallsend
Registration District Tynemouth
Residence Note George Road
Gender Female
Age 17
Occupation DRESSMAKER
Relationship to Head of Household Visitor
Birth Year (Estimated) 1884
Birthplace Wallsend, Northumberland
Schedule Type 97
Page Number 15


John Braidford Head M 62 Scotland
John Knox Son-In-Law M 26 Wallsend, Northumberland
Mary S B Knox Daughter F 22 Baker, Northumberland
Hy Braidford Son M 27 Baker, Northumberland
Jennie Knox Visitor F 17 Wallsend, Northumberland

Name Jennie Knox
Event Type Census
Event Date 1911
County Northumberland
Parish Wallsend
Sub-District Wallsend
Registration District Tynemouth
Gender Female
Age 24
Birthplace Wallsend, Northumberland
Record Type Household

On Ancestry, its possible to click to see the next image. That has the form's Cover/Schedule sheet.

The form asks for the *Postal* address.
Mind you, the address section on the main census form also asks for the Postal Address!
The hand writting is different - possibly the Enumerators? That is given as 41 Buddle St, Wallsend.

Sometimes a collection of houses eg Villas are numbered seperately but are within a named road. Could that have happened here?

Thank you to all who answered my query....

Anne Cardiff...Thank you for the info.on Jennie Knox...she is new to me and I wondered how she fit in as Niece to James and Thomas....none of their sisters married a Knox but that's for another day...!!!

The 1881 Census is the family Wallsend....

+++Detective+++

I had a look on FMP (Freeweekend) and the images before and after were for Buddle Street but I think you may be right as the further forward I went the more I noticed Street names were different on the signature part but all the Streets are located in the same area of Wallsend.

Looking through other completed forms, prior to and following on from your family a number seem to give addresses as both Albert Terrace or Buddle Street and Evelyn Terrace or Buddle Street. Some are given as Back Buddle Street, others have been left as Albert or Evelyn Terrace. There's also a Wooley St thrown in!

I did start earlier but was interrupted. It's cold and wet here and I'm bored so -

The numbers do seem to run concurrently whatever the name, so looks like a couple of terraces within a street.

Gerald Street comes before
5 Buddle Street
9 Buddle Street then maybe a cross street as it jumps to
21 Buddle Street
23 Albert Terrace
25/27 Albert Terrace, Buddle Street
29 Buddle Street
31 Albert Terrace, Buddle Street
33/35-7 Buddle Street
41 Evelyn Terrace
43 Buddle Street
No address given
47 Evelyn Terrace
49 Buddle St
Nos 51/53/55 Evelyn Terrace or Buddle Street
Nos 57/59/61 Evelyn Terrace
No 1 Gerald Street
? No Buddle Street
No 1 Wooley st
No 1 then Nos 10 through 42 evens are written as a mixture of Buddle St and Back Buddle St
After Buddle St comes Denham Terrace

this seems to be Jennie down as Jane with a Reay in the household



Jane Knox

England and Wales Census, 1901

Name Jane Knox
Event Type Census
Event Date 31 Mar 1901
Event Place Wallsend, Northumberland, England
County Northumberland
Civil Parish Wallsend
Ecclesiastical Parish St Peter
Sub-District Wallsend
Registration District Tynemouth
Residence Note Seventh Street
Gender Female
Age 14
Relationship to Head of Household Daughter
Birth Year (Estimated) 1887
Birthplace Wallsend, Northumberland
Schedule Type 45
Page Number 9

John Knox Head M 37 Wallsend, Northumberland
Amy Knox Wife F 35 Scotland
Jane Knox Daughter F 14 Wallsend, Northumberland
Mary Knox Daughter F 13 Wallsend, Northumberland
Ellen Knox Daughter F 12 Wallsend, Northumberland
Margaret Knox Daughter F 10 Wallsend, Northumberland
Annie Knox Daughter F 7 Wallsend, Northumberland
Thomas E D Reay Knox Son M 5 Wallsend, Northumberland
John Knox Daughter F 1 Wallsend, Northumberland

Greyghost...Thank you !! Its bucketing with rain and cold where I am as well...

I am at present working on the Knox connection..wish AnneCardiff hadn't thrown that into the mix...

Wish I had never found them....and wasn't even looking...

John Knox

England and Wales Marriage Registration Index

Name John Knox
Event Type Marriage
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun
Registration Year 1886
Registration District Tynemouth
County Northumberland
Event Place Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
Volume 10B
Page 334
Line Number 366

John Knox probably married one of the following people

Name Amy Reay

AnneCardiff...Don't do this to me...!!! But many thanks nevertheless..

Have spent most of the afternoon trying to connect the relationship "Niece" to Jennie and the Reays the odd thing is the wife of John Knox.. Mary SL Braidford (or Bradford) is Mary Stewart Lowingham Bradford what a mouthful....
The Reay maternal line is Stewart but that doesnt seem to be the connection as MSL Braidford Knox parents were John Braidford and Mary Ann Hull/Hall.

Back to the Knox side of things...

On the track of Amy Reay...!!!

Incidentally "My" Reays...lived down 7th Street 1891 Census.

which is where the Reay's lived :-D

Thank you Ann...Its not funny !!
The Reay family and their offspring have caused me grieve for years... The Reay's Stewarts and "Knox" families were some how interlinked as Wm Stewart Muirhead (Dornock )nephew of Thomas and James by their sister Janet Stewart Reay died in WW1 and listed "Polly Knox" as his nok...He was living in Canada and she was living in Wallsend..
What a tangled web they wove.

S

Here's how Wards 1915/1916 Directory lists Buddle Street

Begins Station Road
No 5
No 9
Simpsons Hotel

Albert Terrace - Nos 19 to 37

Evelyn Terrace - Nos 39 to 63

Elliott Terrace - Nos 65 to 89

Nos 91 to 109 are just listed as Buddle Street, ends at Neptune Road

Then there's the United Methodist Church and even numbers 52, 36, 18, 14, 10 & 8.

How You doing...?

Well its them damned Reays again..they (the family ) must have lived in every house in Wallsend...Found Tom and James by sheer chance..if I am honest I wasn't even looking...Wonder why none of the men other than Joseph (eldest brother and my gt grandfather) never married... their Deery Bros in Law other than Tom didn't either mebbe there wasn't enough women to go around at the time..!!!!