boginspro Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Can anyone identify what this says please. It is from the 1851 census regarding Joseph and Mary Ann Broadhead and appears to be a yard off Pea Croft. I have printed it at three different zoom levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makapaka Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 57 minutes ago, boginspro said: Can anyone identify what this says please. It is from the 1851 census regarding Joseph and Mary Ann Broadhead and appears to be a yard off Pea Croft. I have printed it at three different zoom levels. “Clapham”? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 2 minutes ago, makapaka said: Clapham Thanks makapaka that's a bit better than I thought, the middle bit does look like that, possibly an e on the end and something I can't work out in front, but so far I have found nothing in directories etc. that seem to be anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Could it possibly say "Mr Clapham's Yd."? Reading the story of the area at this link, the Clapham's were a prominent family on Pea Croft around this time and it seems they had several shops along the road, at various addresses. Rather than officially adopted yard names, I wonder if the Broadheads lived in accommodation that was within a yard, owned or inhabited by the Clapham's? http://www.nons.co.uk/Residences/Residences_Claphams_Needhams.htm Just an idea, but there may be something in it? Plenty of street numbers to conjure with?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christaine Millington Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Looks like 16 Clapham yard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldomsmith Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Boginspro. The census line below yours looks clearer and seems to be 12 Clapham's Yard with the Yard written as Yd See below. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I would have thought 11 Clapham's Yd Pea Croft, depending which way they were going down the street. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 So, probably Number 11 then, rather than "Mr."? Interesting that the map of 1853 called the areas either side of Pea Croft as 'Yards', whereas by 1890, there were more detailed and numbered 'Courts'. I circled Court number 11 on the 1890 map, but realise that it's not the 11 in the census return... ... some more detective work required 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Ede Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Is it 12 Clapham Yard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadFarmer Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Looking at Scotland Street on the above map, just after the junction with Lambert Street it turns into another road which only partially shown as Grin.... Anyone know what it was called? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 It was Grindlegate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Thank you everyone, an amazing response, I am sure you are on the right lines and I will do some more research . I was a bit slow not noticing the clearer entry below in the census eldomsmith and knew nothing of the Clapham's. The link and map look very interesting RLongden I shall be studying them later, thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 I thought that a bit of photo-shopping might help you, although, I see that you've got the answer anyhow. Best of look with your research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 13 minutes ago, Unitedite Returns said: I thought that a bit of photo-shopping might help you, although, I see that you've got the answer anyhow. Best of look with your research. Thanks, I should have known I would get a good response on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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