Property: Unknown Alcester Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: William Edmund Free aged:  30  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Harness Maker –

Notes: Wife Eliza (Rushton) (31) plus 3 children at home. On the 1861 census William was lodging in Birmingham. On the 1881 census they lived Church Green South, Redditch. On the 1891 census they lived 13 Market Place, Redditch. In the 1870 Post Office Directory William was a Saddler and Harness maker in Alcester Street. In the 1872 Post Office Directory William was classed as Saddler and Harness maker in Church Green, Redditch. By 1884 Kelly’s Directory William was a Saddler and Harness maker at 15 Market Place. Then in the 1888 & 1892 Kelly’s Directory he was Saddler and Harness maker 13 Market Place. In the 1900 & 1904 Kelly’s Directory William was classed as private resident, “Sunnyside” Webheath. William died 18th June 1910 and lived at 140 Birchfield Road, Redditch.

Source: JC – Census