Property: 29 Alcester Street ln year: 1861

Occupant: John Guest aged:  56  Born:  Upton Warren

Trade: Grocer –

Notes: Wife Maria (44) plus 9 children + 1 servant at home. On the 1871 census Maria is now a widow and lived in Alcester Street but no number stated but have put her at 29 Alcester Street as she was at that number on the 1881 census. On the 1851 census they lived in Beoley Street, Redditch (which on later census seems to become Alcester Street). In the 1855 Billing’s Directory & Gazetteer John was Grocer, Beer Retailer, Rising Sun, Alcester Street which was 29. In the 1860 Post Office Directory John was a Beer Retailer and Grocer, Alcester Street. In the Jones’s 1865 Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire John was classed as John Guest, Grocer, Tobacconist and ale and porter merchant, Alcester Street. John was the licensee of the “Rising Sun” 1841-1864.

Source: JC – Census + AF