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Hi I'm sorry to ask but could anyone come up with an answer for me please as to why in 1881 my Gladstone family should be living in no 4 and no 6 Berwick Street Gateshead and not just one address. There are only 6 people living in the house so i thought one house would be enough.

Joseph GLADSTONE Head M Male 48 Ncastle, Northumberland, England Brushmaker

Mary Ann GLADSTONE Wife M Female 48 Ncastle, Northumberland, England



Margaret Eliz. GLADSTONE Daur U Female 19 Ncastle, Northumberland, England Gen Dom Serv

Sarah Isa. GLADSTONE Daur Female 13 Ncastle, Northumberland, England Scholar

Joseph GLADSTONE Son Male 10 Gateshead, Durham, England Scholar

Robert Watson GLADSTONE Son Male 6 Ncastle, Northumberland, England Scholar ( my great grandfather)

4 & 6 Berwick St
Census Place Gateshead, Durham, England

thanks carole

Wonder if it was two terraced houses knocked into one, like people do today? I was going to suggest that perhaps they owned both and rented one out but it would perhaps depend how wealthy they were.

Or, the enumator could have mixed it up. I have seen records saying "1 House 2 Court" and then a street name, and next door would be "1 House 3 Court", which sounds a bit like the equivalent of a flat now. Perhaps that was what should have been written down?

It did occur to me that maybe everybody had their own bedroom, but I'm not sure on that one as I always though that - even if you only had space for one bed in the room - two sisters or two brothers would share the one bed rather than having one each?

Perhaps it was two flats (i.e.upstairs and downstairs in one house and one was empty and the enumerator forgot to put it empty.
Are there different families in the houses either side?

im sure they were right nxt dor to each other
adjoined, maybe owned by parent and grandparent

Maybe they were just one bedroom houses.


Marion

Or something like this..


http://www.glescapals.com/Memory%20SingleEnd.htm

Hi Kate
thanks for your answer iv been trying to send a copy of the image but ancestry doen't allow me too, ive checked on their neighbours they are dairymen and a waterman on the other side to them.

Joseph Gladstone the father is a brushmaker so i dont think they would of been very well off my great grandad went on to be a hairdresser as too his brother John James Peace Gladstone who was born in 1857 another brother was a plumber so i dont know but thank you very much for your help
regards carole

thank you everyone for you answers. at one time they lived down at rhe newcastle Quayside this must of been a horrible life

As he was a Brushmaker,perhaps the one was his place of work.brushmaking was a mucky business then.**M**.

thats a good idea M and it makes sense to use the other house as a work shop thanks