Census Mapping Project
Posted by admin on 30 Mar 2009 at 01:11 am | Tagged as: Home - Newsletter
Committee member – Darren Butler is currently undertaking a significant project to locate local families in relation to the local censuses on to a map of the same period – so that you will be able to see where in the village your families lived at the time of the censuses.
However, this has thrown up a couple of problems – many of the names of the addresses used at the time of the census are no longer traceable. So we need your help? We’re not suggesting you can actually remember back to the 1841 – but we are hoping your family gossip, folk lore & knowledge can help to trace some of these mysterious addresses.
| From the 1841 Census | |
| Mystery Address | Near to – we think? |
| Needleys Alley (7 buildings) | Mount Pleasant |
| Buxtons Crofts (1 Building) | Needleys Alley |
| Back Lane | Red Lane (Low St) |
| Wyrley Road | (Probably top of High St) |
| From the 1861 Census | |
| Mystery Address | Near to – we think? |
| Birds Row (6 buildings) | Red Lane (Low St) |
| Prince Albert beer house | Between Birds Row & Red Lane |
| Lowes Buildings (3 buildings) | Pinfold lane |
| Bowater Row (3 buildings) | Lowes Buildings |
| Common (2 buildings) | Birds Row |
| From the 1871 Census | |
| Mystery Address | Near to – we think? |
| Brickell House | Saredon Rd |
| The Tunings (1 building) | Brickell House |
| Bettsons Row (8 buildings) | Top of High St |
| Horden Buildings (3 buildings) | Top of High St |
| Lovetts Buildings (2 buildings) | Top of High St |
| Locketts Buildings (2 buildings) | Hatherton St |
| Lion Property (4 buildings) | Red lion Inn |
| Thomas Buildings (5 buildings) | High St |
| White House | High St |
| Three Ways (1 building) | Bottom of High St |
| Coal Wharf (1 Building) | Bottom of High St |
| Thatched Cottage (2 buildings) | Bottom of High St |
| Turners Buildings (5 buildings) | High St |
| Providence Place (1 building) | Cross St( Possibly Low St) |
| Brewers Buildings (2 Buildings) | Low St |
| Thatched Cottage (6 Buildings) | Low St |
| Old Falls (2 buildings) | Low St |
| Stanleys Houses (2 buildings) | In Queen St |
| Brewers Buildings (2 buildings) | Queen St |
| Job’s Fold (8 buildings) | Queen St |
| From the 1881 Census | |
| Mystery Address | Near to – we think? |
| Wootton Houses (2 buildings) | Buxton place |
| Old Coal Wharf (5 Buildings) | Bricklayers Arms |
| Rose Cottage (2 buildings) | Old Coal Wharf |
| Duke of Wellington – 3 ways beer house | Old Coal Wharf |
| Seymour Villa | Low St |
| Hilton Lane | Hatherton St |
| New Street | Low St |
| Alma Cottages (3 buildings) | Station St |
| Goldthorn Place (3 buildings) | Station St |
Most of these buildings will not have survived, we are certainly not aware of any thatched cottages still in existence today in the village, there were no building regulations in those days and many buildings would have been nothing more than mud shacks and lean-to’s. (A little like Larkrise). If you can help with any address please get in touch.
We are also hoping that if anyone who now lives in Cheslyn Hay has copies of their house Title Deeds – would they mind if we had sight of them or better still a photo copy of the older sections, as these will give us important information on previous owners and in many cases a small plan of the surrounding area – showing other owners nearby. The Deeds will also state (If they have survived) when the house was built. These deeds would be a great help for us, as some areas of Cheslyn Hay (The Lot, Chapel Square, the top of Queen St etc.) it is very hard to establish what houses were built where and who was living there and when. We do not want your deeds just a copy of the plans which will be used to identify any building in the area in order that we work out how the village looked in the 1800’s. There may be a very small charge to see these deeds but we can pay for the cost if it is a property with some local history. The hope is to put all this information together on to maps of the area which should be very helpful for anyone searching for their family or their house history. Please get in touch if you can help.
One of the “Turners Buildings” from 1871 is in the 1881 census as “Turners Fold” and it does seem to be on or close to High St. If you check the buildings adjacent they are just labelled as “High St” in the 1881 census but I think they were the other Turners buildings. The Turners are ancestors of mine but I know very little about them other than what I have seen in the censuses. If I lived in Cheslyn Hay I would start by looking for 6 High St as per the 1881 census and see what is around it.
I can help with Alma Cottages shown on the 1881 census. These are still in existance and are now 164, 166 and 168 Station Street roughly opposite to the Indian takeaway. As with most of the houses built at the time, there is a small plaque set into the brickwork displaying the name and year of build (1875) I now live at No 164. Hope that helps a little.