Genealogy Chat

I am visititing where g.g.grandparents came from this week, all I have on 1861 census is george rixon living at 24 dwelling house, farnham royal, bucks, it dosnt give road or street name, nos 23 was a public house and no 22 was a post office, as farnham royal is a big place does anyone have any suggestions how to find where I want. thankyou jean

Hi Jean, if you get the reference numbers from the census entry, you may be able to give the local library a ring, and they may have a census index to the area you're looking for. They might be able to look it up for you on an old map, and tell you the sort of area, or tell you which street it is now then you can look it up at Multimap. Hope this helps you in some way Best wishes

o.k. john will do that then, thanks for your help. jean

Do you have the census reference? If you do let us know it so somebody can look up which registration district your family were in and take a look at the description. This info should help you to narrow down the location and you can take a look at it on Multimap. [This is what is says on Ancestry: Some parishes may have only one district, others will have many. By clicking the link next to the enumeration district number you can see the handwritten description of the area that comprises the district.] Christina

The location is actually in Iver..........enumeration district 1a. The description of the district is: The Whole of the Hamlet of Hedgerley Dean. There are only 4 census pages for the district, so it wasn't too big...........then! Hope this helps........... Reg

hi christina, census reg no. is rg 9/850. thanks jean reg, thats what I mean, now the area is so big, where do I look. have found the post office and a public house on a bucks site, but it still dosnt give any road name, and these were dated for early 1900s. thanks jean

I have found Hedgerley GREEN but no Dean on an old maps site [address - remove ()s www.old-maps(.)co(.)uk/oldmaps/index_external.jsp?easting=503500&northing=181500 ], you may have to select Buckinghamshire and Hedgerley Green, then you can zoom in. I can't see a PO and pub in Hedgerley Green but can in Hedgerley itself. It might be worth taking a look because the road doesn't appear to be very long. Christina

I very much doubt that the original houses would still be there. You could try seeing what the public house was called - its sometimes written on a census even if not transcribed - and then see if the pub still exists. Bear in mind that the post office may well have moved. nell

christina, thanks for that info, did as you suggested and found the post office, have saved addy on to my bookmark. nell, I have had another look on the image and it dosnt say what the public house was called, but as the post office was next door to the pub hopefully I can get some more information when I get there. thanks for everyones help today. jean x