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    maz1
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    Unhappy bethnal green help please

    Hi
    Can anyone point me in the right direction please. Ive a wonderful surname to hunt for - yep its BROWN!
    I would like to know if its possible to find out who was living at an address in Bethnal Green in 1857 - is there any way of doing this?

    8 THOMAS STREET, BETHNAL GREEN

    im hoping it will tell me there was a GEORGE BROWN there who was a POULTERER.
    If so Im also hoping it will tell me his wife name and both birth areas.

    Im sooooooooooo stumped on this gentleman, any help would be great
    thanks ever so much
    Marian

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    alan021280
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    hi there marian did george have any children

    alan

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    Thomasin
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    There's no George Brown at 8 Thomas Street, but there is a George Brown, poulterer at 1. Upper Marylebone Street with wife Sarah from Stalham, Norfolk. What was your chap's birth year?

    Thomasin

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    maz1
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    Hi Alan
    All I know of is JAMES born abt 1828/1836 NEWGATE ST, CITY, LONDON.
    I got George's name from James' marriage certificate.
    Very limited info im afraid.
    thanks for replying though
    Marian

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    maz1
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    Hi Thomasin
    thanks for replying to me, I got the address from James' marriage cert, so I was hoping that was where George was living at the time of his son's marriage. I know it was a long shot. I really dont have anything more on George at all Im afraid, except of course that he was a poulterer at this time.
    Thanks for info on the George you found, I will try and look into that - some how!!!
    thanks again
    Marian

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    maz1
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    Just relooked at James and Sophia Brown (nee Knight's) marriage cert, not only was James' address at this time 8 Thomas st, Sophia Knight was at 6 Thomas st.
    6 Thomas St, Ive found in earlier research was the site of the BLACK BULL pub in 1856.
    Dont know if this info will help you to help me at all?
    thanks
    Marian

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    Thomasin
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    You're right that the Black Bull was No. 6, but there were three other houses that also came under No. 6, all with two or three families in them. Not a single Knight, not even a Sophia. The nearest name to that was Sarah King! Of course, that's the 1861 census, so it looks as if they had all moved on in those four years.

    Thomasin

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    maz1
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    Hi again
    thanks for that, well Sophia Knight wouldve been married by then but seeing as theres no Knights at all in 1861 you're right they must have moved.
    I cant find her father Thomas in 1861 or 1871 as yet, he was married to Mary Ann.
    But still doesnt help on the Brown front - o well I'll find him one day
    thanks for your help
    Marian

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    Thomasin
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    I've tried the 1851 census, and the only James Brown with father George is at 67 Hare Street, Bethnal Green, HO107; 1542; folio?; 3.

    George Brown 44 b. Spitalfield, Middx
    Sarah Brown 45 b. Bethnal Green
    George Brown 21 b. Bethnal Green
    James Brown 20 b. Bethnal Green

    The downside to this is that they ALL seem to be hand loom weavers of silk.

    Thomasin

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    maz1
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    thanks for that Thomasin
    This family of Brown's is certainly a trying bunch.
    Thanks again for all your help
    Marian

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