Property: Unknown Alcester Street ln year: 1861

Occupant: Emma Whele (widow) aged:  40  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Ironmonger –

Notes: Emma (Clarke) had 2 working children + 3 younger children (including Jesse) at home. On the 1851 census she is married to Jesse and they lived in George Street, Redditch. On the 1871 census Emma lived in Alcester Street but no numbers are stated on the early census. On 1881 census her son Jesse was the Licensee of the “Fountain Inn” at 75 Evesham street. In the Jones’s 1865 Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Emma is classed as Ironmonger, Alcester Street. Emma died 23rd January 1888.

Source: JC – Census