All Lost Properties – By Road


Property: 31 Evesham Street ln year: 1891

Occupant: John London aged:  33  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Grocer – Employer

Notes: Wife Ada Caroline (Haines) (25) (daughter of Thomas and Caroline Haines of 38-40 Evesham Street) plus 2 young children + 2 grocers assistants + 1 servant at home. On the 1881 census John lived with his mother Sarah, widow and his siblings at 31 Evesham Street. In the 1888 and 1892 Kelly’s Directory John London grocer of 31 Evesham Street. On the 1901 census they were living in Queen Street and John was a worker assisting a Grocer. Then by the 1911 census John was a widower and with son Leslie lived in Handsworth, Birmingham and John now was a Tramways Supervisor.

Source: JC – Census