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Occupation Road Or Lane


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I don't know if this has been covered before

The main 1911 census document states Occupation Road

however the schedule states Occupation Lane, is there a reason

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The answer is that the start of the document was filled in by the Enumerator and is the correct way.

The other parts of the Census are filled in by the householders the first time in census and in that case a daft one who doesn't know that he lives in a Lane not a road! he he

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The main 1911 census document states - Head of household, Alfred Crookes.

However the schedule states - Head of household, Walter Crookes.

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The answer is that the start of the document was filled in by the Enumerator and is the correct way.

The other parts of the Census are filled in by the householders the first time in census and in that case a daft one who doesn't know that he lives in a Lane not a road! he he

The main 1911 census document states - Head of household, Alfred Crookes.

However the schedule states - Head of household, Walter Crookes.

I did not notice that, The schedule is actually for the previous house, also called Crookes, but the same applies, Road and Lane, there seems to be a variety of interpretations of address on the Road/Lane, so its could be down to what HistoryDude says.

Out of interest there is at least 3 lots of Crookes on the Road/Lane maybe there are more.

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This from History in the Shirebrook Valley puts Occupation Road on the opposite (Woodhouse) side of the valley.

Railways,Roads and Footpaths
For centuries travel, both through and across the valley, was
via a network of footpaths and cart
tracks. The bridges across the Shire Brook were vital. Most of the
old footpaths remain and are now protected as Public Rights of
Way. Over the years, local nicknames have been used for paths,
the ‘Icky Picky’ (Occupation Road), Lovers Lane, Cardiac Hill (Spa
Lane), to name but a few.
The building of the railway line between the collieries made a
significant impact on the valley and its access, with miners
commonly hitching a ride. Many remnants of the associated stone -----
====================================
Occupation Road is a raised, hedge
lined track which now runs off Coisley
Road. Its age and origins are
uncertain. It has been described as a
service road to the first sewage works
in the valley, a road to Scowerdens
Farm on the other side of the brook,
a road to Carr and Rainbow Forges
(for transportation of materials, iron
and fuel) and as an old packhorse
trail for transporting salt.

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He was probably Walter Alfred Crookes or Alfred Walter Crookes. He is the one that filled in the census return as his signature matches the rest of the document. He would have perhaps told the Enumerator one name and then filled in the form afterwards. That's the trouble with census they might not use the given names and use short forms of names for relations and themselves. Especially the 1911 census as they got the head of household to fill it in.

One of my relations lied about his age, the number of children he had and how long he was married. So you can't always trust what someone writes down in a Census.

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As a scythe grinder, your man was probably, but not certainly, employed at Thomas Staniforth and Co. Ltd, Severquick, scythe and sickle works on Main Street, Hackenthorpe, which still exists, but no longer as a manufactory. Though there were other such factories in the area, this would have been the largest and the nearest.

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