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Can't read the writing...can you?

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 26 May 2005 22:09

Hi Just to endorse what others have written.I read it the same. 8Colchester street Bethnal Green etc. Shirley

Heather

Heather Report 26 May 2005 21:44

I do think it is Coleharbour as the district is also right, St Thomas' Hackney Road, Bethal Green as per the image ref on ancestry: Source information: RG9/251 Registration district: Bethnal Green Sub-registration district: Hackney Road There is no Colchester Street in Hackney Road, Bethnal Green - there is one in Whitechapel though.

Skewedhalo

Skewedhalo Report 26 May 2005 21:43

:-) You lot really are good, aren't you? Thank you so much. Well I am posting another poser in a minute, so sort that one out too! LOL Sharon

Heather

Heather Report 26 May 2005 21:40

Just had a quick google: 1807 Nag's Head Field, 8 a. of Milkhouse Bridge between Allport's and Pritchard's estates, was leased for 80 years to James Waddilove and John Crispin of Cambridge Heath and Charles Fichet of Hackney. Thirty-eight houses had already been built, mostly two-storeyed and fronting Coldharbour (or Coleharbour) Street at the western end From: 'Bethnal Green: The North West: Hackney Road', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume XI: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 112-14. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22748. Date accessed: 25 May 2005.

Skewedhalo

Skewedhalo Report 26 May 2005 21:37

Blimey! You lot are quick! And I could have sworn it said Jewellery :-) I thought the address said Colchester Street, so am more than happy that some of you agree. Thanks everyone, Sharon

Heather

Heather Report 26 May 2005 21:36

Looks like 8 Coleharbour Street to me?

Debby

Debby Report 26 May 2005 21:33

The address looks like 8 Colchester St, Bethnal Green or 8 Coleheston St, Bethnal Green Debby Well done to the others for the occupation - I couldn't read that at all!

Heather

Heather Report 26 May 2005 21:28

Hi, It reads Traveller's (Commercial) driver.

Skewedhalo

Skewedhalo Report 26 May 2005 21:21

Could someone with access to the 1861 census on Ancestry have a look at it for me please. I can't make out the person's occupation or address. It is for Thomas T Haines, birth year 1836, birthplace Westerham, Kent. His occupation looks like 'Jewellery (coml) driver', but I am really not sure, and that sounds like an odd occupation to me! Can anyone make out the address as well please? Thanks in adavnce, Sharon