Property: 55 Red Lion Street ln year: 1881

Occupant: Thomas Devey (widower) aged:  54  Born:  Kidderminster

Trade: Baker –

Notes: Thomas had 1 son, Edward, (a Baker) at home. (On the 1881 census the enumerator started at this house after 9 Warren Row) On the 1871 census Thomas lived with his wife Elizabeth at the Baker’s shop, Red Lion Street but no numbers stated on census. On the 1891 census Thomas lived in Ipsely Street, Redditch. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Directory and Gazetteer Thomas is classed as Baker, Red Lion Street. Thomas died in 1896.

Source: JC – Census