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The book gives the names and addresses of private residents and commercial proprietors who lived in and around Burton-on-Trenr in 1864. Although the data is taken from the Staffordshire Post Office Directory of 1864, this is not a facsimile copy. The type has been reset in a modern font to make reading easier. In addition, a ‘classified’ section has been added so that historians can quickly see the trades in the town in that year. Public houses are listed in alphabetical order and in another section the publicans are listed in order of their surname.
Extracts from Deacon’s Cheshire Court Guide and County Blue Book of 1886 list the people who lived in the area encompassed by Acton, Audlem, Buerton, Crewe, Hankelow, Nantwich, Titley, Weston, Wistaston, Wrenbury and Wybunbury.
This is a facsimile of a book published in 1886 and is an invaluable tool for anybody tracing their family tree as it lists practically everybody living in Cheshire in 1886 by village. There are also sections on accountants, architects, auctioneers, barristers, civil engineers, clergy, dentists, medical doctors, solicitors, and many more.
This fully comprehensive edition features material in the paperback versions listed below plus additional towns and villages. There is just one master list of surnames. The original directory listed names on a town by town basis and the researcher had to look through all of them to find a specific surname. In this electronic version all same family are listed together.
The Staffordshire village of Audley is pleasantly situated on a commanding eminence, 5 miles north-west from Newcastle-under-Lyme. This extract from the 1864 Post Office Directory list the people who lived there and the surrounding area in that year. The original directory was produced to assist in the addressing of mail and each of the villages and hamlets had their own alphabetical list. The current book is aimed at the modern genealogist and therefore all the lists have been amalgamated so that a surname can quickly be found for a person living anywhere in the area.
It amuses me to find people whose surnames match their profession. In Bilston in 1864 for example we find a watchmaker called Daniel Hands and drinks being served in The Old Bush by Jane Sherry. Paradoxically, Noah Halford is the landlord of the Black Horse and not Noah’s Ark, an establishment on Wolverhampton Street owned by E Clarke. Public houses often reflect the character of the people in the area and the work they do, like the Blank Makers Arms - but what is the origin of The Ship and Rainbow
This book is not simply a copy of the original. For one thing it uses a larger and more modern font. Another innovation is a classified section to help local historians in their research. And for genealogists there is an alphabetical listing of all the people mention in the original plus a note on where to where to find additional material.
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