Property: 13 Alcester Street ln year: 1881

Occupant: Joseph Rickards aged:  70  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Pork Butcher –

Notes: Wife Harriet (Boulton) (64) Pork Butcher plus 1 daughter also a Pork Butcher + 1 granddaughter at home. On the 1891 census Joseph’s wife Harriet was now a widow and living at this address. On the 1871 census they lived in Ipsley and Joseph was an Innkeeper. Joseph was the licensee of the “Warwick Arms” 1872-1876. In the 1872 Post Office Directory Joseph was Innkeeper of “Warwick Arms”, Ipsley Street. In the 1884 & 1888 Kelly’s Directory Joseph was classed as Pork Butcher, 13 Alcester Street. Joseph died in 1888

Source: JC – Census