Genealogy Chat

I emailed the City of Westminster Archives Dept. about 33 Ebury Street a few days ago. Below is their reply which may be useful to other GR users who were also talking about Ebury Street. 'You do not say when they were there so I cannot tell you exactly where the property was because Ebury Street was renumbered in 1867 and number 33 now is not the same as it was before 1867. However, I can outline the types of records we have here which you could use to research their occupation of this property if you visit us at the end of the month when you come up to London. We hold Ordnance Survey maps which show street numbering after 1951, but we have earlier editions from 1867-74, 1894-96 and 1906-1919 which show the outlines of the houses. Kelly's Post Office Directories which we hold from 1842 onwards are very useful because they list most houses in the street and give the position of intersecting streets, so you can look at these along with the OS maps to work out which house number 33 was. We also hold census returns for every tenth year from 1841 to 1901 (except 1861 where the Belgravia census returns were destroyed) and these give details of names, ages, occupations and birthplaces of all the inhabitants. We have electoral registers from 1906 onwards showing the names of people registered to vote arranged by address. We also hold rate books listing the ratepayers by address. So you see we have a lot of information which can help you to trace exactly where the house was and to see who lived there. If you want to take your research any further, you might like to see the archives of the Grosvenor Estate who are the ground landlords. These records includes leases, minute books, plans and photographs. You need to obtain a letter of permission from the estate office by e-mailing nigel hughes or miles dunnet. Our opening hours are given on our web-site (see link below, noting that we are closed on Mondays). www.westminster.gov.uk/archives Hope this info is useful to other people with ancestors that lived in Ebury Street. Note the street was renumbered in 1867 & I could not get the email addresses above to display properly, so if you want the addresses send me a direct message. Claire