Genealogy Chat

You'll probably have to do a bit of patient detective work. Here's one method I've tried successfully. Look at the neighbouring addresses and make a note of places like pubs, post offices, churches etc and count how many houses lie between them. Look on a later census where houses ARE numbered and compare the previous census, using those pubs, post offices and churches as reference points. For instance, if your target house was fifteen doors from the church in one direction and seven doors from the pub in the other, find the same house on the later census and see what number it has. It's not infallible because extra houses could have been built, or others demolished. Also, census enumerators didn't always follow the same route down a street. One extra method though is to note the family name of each house and compare censuses. Sometimes you can find the same families living in the same property over many years.

I'm sorry Helen but I don't think there is. My village is like that, there are no numbers on any census returns right up to 1901 Only the Inns and BIG houses are named, The only thing you can do is to view a desrcription of the Enumeration district and then try and work out which way round the enumerator walked. Jennifer

Does anyone know if it is possible to get / view maps relating to census addresses? The reason I ask is that many of my relatives addresses are given as a number followed by the name of the village, i.e. no recognisable house number or street address, particularly on 1851-1891 censuses. E.g. one of my relatives lived at '11 Owlswick', we live near Owlswick, Bucks now and there can't be more than about 20 houses in the village, but is there any way of finding out which one was '11 Owlswick' on the census? Thank you.