Property: 5 Vine Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: John Mence aged:  56  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Gardener –

Notes: Wife Maria (58) plus 3 working children at home. On the 1881 census Maria was now a widow and lived at 5 Vine Street and though no numbers stated on the 1871 census it seemd to be at the same number along the street. (On earlier census Vine Street was known as Red Cow Yard but not mentioned on the early census records only as Evesham Street and later census Vine Street became Worcester Road) On the 1861 census they lived in Walford Street, Redditch.

Source: JC – Census