John Hugh Jakeway lived at 15 Burlington Street and was recorded at that address in the 1881 and 1891 censuses. Today there is no number 15 in Burlington Street, the last house in the terrace is number 13 and known as Clara's Cottage. Immediately next door to Clara's Cottage is the Weston-super-Mare Gaslight Company Workshops which were built about 1908. In the photo attached, the demarcation between number 13 and the Workshops can be clearly seen, not least by the difference in the height of the buildings and the building line used. This would suggest that the Workshops were newly built rather than converted from previous domestic housing, which leads me to question whether the street numbering might have altered between 1891 and 1908 when the Workshops were built. Is it possible that the current number 13 was originally number 15?
Any information relating to the history of Burlington Street would be most welcome.
Please can anyone tell me what detail was necessary to be able to be married in a cathedral?- a lack of smaller churches? e.g., Samuel Bruce seemingly married Sarah Dickinson 4th Oct 1781 in Cathedral of St. Peter.Sheffield. YKS. Thanks, Sylvia
I'm putting together a slideshow of the history of Bleadon featuring some of the older properties and the people who lived in them. If anyone can help with photos I'd be most grateful. hoping to include a feature about the Church and it's graves.
This will be the second show in the series. Previous one was entitled 'Bleadon 100 years in Photos'.
In the 1871 Census I have an address as Cop Lippett #11 in Cheddar. Using Google Earth there is no reference to that name. Have looked online extensively to find out if this was an actual street name or a part of Cheddar but have been unsuccessful. Cannot find any reference to this. Would anyone know if this was indeed a street name back in 1871 and perhaps now re-named?
Thanks for any information that can send me in the right direction.
published by gardenia13 on Sat, 12/11/2016 - 19:45
My mother was born in Axbridge at Albert Terrace on October 10th 1916. Her name was Freda Louise
Schofield. Her birth certificate shows her mother as Emma Schofield nee Downes her father was Harry
Schofield.
Sadly something went very wrong. as my mother and her siblings (4 or 5 children) were put in an
orphanage or maybe even the workhouse with their mother. I can't find anything about my grandfather,
he may have been called up for WW1.
My mother was adopted without papers around 1924/5 by a farming family in Staffordshire. Eventually
she managed to find her mother in the 1950's who was living alone in Lincolnshire. Unfortunately due
to the old lady's frailty she could find little to help her find her siblings or what had become of her
father
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