Property: 3 & 5 Evesham Street ln year: 1891

Occupant: James Edward Ray aged:  31  Born:  Berks

Trade: Draper & Silk Dispenser – Employer

Notes: Wife Annie E. (31) plus baby son + 2 brother-in-laws drapers assistants + apprenctice drapers assistant + dressmaker + Milliner + Milliner apprentice + 2 general servants. On the 1901 census his wife Annie was classed as married but no mention of her husband and she lived at 2 Market Place. By the 1911 census James and his wife were boarding with Jesse Whele in Birchfield Road, Redditch and James was classed as Draper out of Business. In the 1888 Kelly’s Directory Ray Brothers, Drapers, 3 Evesham Street. In the 1896 Kelly’s Directory James is classed as Draper, 3 Evesham Street.

Source: JC – Census