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Chris -- many thanks for this. I went to the site you mentioned and found something quite odd: a change of use planning application for 55 Oakley Road dated 02 Mar 1990 to switch from "retail to part...

Chris, thanks for looking into this for me. No. 55/55a would almost certainly have been us -- or my parents I should say. It was a large double-fronted shop. My dad's name is Clarke -- he's my...

Thanks to everyone who offered help & suggestions -- you've all been terrific.

Lizzy9 -- thank you so much! I found it in one hit. 321 Dersingham Avenue, E12. Phone: Ilford 3830.
Found it in the 1957 directory. Marvelous.

Hi: I've been trying to find a source for English telephone directories, specifically for two businesses (shops) that my parents ran in the 1950s. One was on Dersingham Avenue, Manor Park, near...

Hello: Can anyone let me know whereabouts of the electoral roles for Bucks are stored? Specifically, the village of Iver, no. 2 [now 4] High Street, between c. 1914-1946? There are some family...

I thought that the nursing home option might apply in the case of my great-grandmother since she died there in 1928. But there was nothing wrong with my grandmother who I believe had been temporarily...

Hi: I've run into a problem related to my family research involving two addresses in Yiewsley, Hillingdon. Both my great grandmother (Annie Daniels, nee Starnes) died at 157 Whitethorn Avenue in...

Thanks to you all for this simply extraordinary research. I'm not sure yet what it all means; at first glance it looks like this branch of my family is a sort of West Country equivalent of the folks...

Thanks for this. . .

If Eli was 34 in 1881 he would have been born in 1847 which is too late for the Elias [or Samuel] Langdon that was married to Elizabeth Blagg. So Eli looks as though he may...

The Eli Langdon suggestion is very seductive and may well be correct; however, I do note that in the in the 1881 census where he appears as 'Elise Langdon' his place of birth is given as...

Nicolina, thanks. I'd actually spotted this myself but in view of the many similarities between the families I'm working on the theory that the different initials are a transcription error, perhaps...

Thanks for this. I note that although the baptisms took place in 1882, the births occurred about 4 & 8 years earlier, respectively, which matches my information. So this is definitely the family....

I'm trying to find some information on the mother of Sarah Jane Langdon (1874-1901), one of my ancestors. According to Sarah's birth certifcate, her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Blegg.

In...

Thanks Oliecat. That's a promising lead. But you're right -- I can find trace of the family in any of the censuses. Most frustrating. Soldiering on. . .

William's [or Henry's] wife's middle initial seems almost certainly to be 'M' -- it appears as such in two censuses (1871, 1881). And
her date of birth remains consistent in all the censuses in...

Thanks. I believe that Arthur Spillane Lazenby was William's [or Henry's] first child, and I've asked a friend in London (whose interests parallel my own) to get his birth certificate on the...

Further to my request for help on the subject of William Lazenby, the mid-Victorian erotica publisher, and his family, and at the suggestion of one of those who kindly replied to it, I sent off for a...

I appreciate the ideas and suggestions, though. My thanks to you & everyone else who's posted on this topic, which now seems to be even murkier!

Thanks, Olliecat:



I believe these two records to be correct. The middle name 'Spillane" gave me a momentary hope that it might be the mother's maiden name, but no luck. I could find no record...

I'm actually aware of Lazenby's role in the erotica business. Peter Mendes, the literary historian referred to, is a good friend of mine, and I've had a couple of books on the subject of my own...

I'm trying to trace information on William Lazenby, who was born about 1834 at Ipswich, Suffolk. So far as I can tell, he appears only in the 1881 census, where he is listed as a bookseller; he...

I have now found that the family name stretches to no less than 7 variants: Ghost, Ghosh, Gost, Gest, Ghert, Gross, & Cross. It is fortunate that the whole family seems to have originated from the...

This information is all quite marvelous, and almost certainly what I'm after -- so thanks to you all. But I have to say that the variance in the way the family name is spelled is quite bewildering....

I found James and Eliza in the censuses for 1881 and 1901, and Eliza on her own (altho' with her children) in 1891. In all three appearances, the family was living in the Uxbridge registration...