Property: 2 & 4 Evesham Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: Moses Cranmore aged:  45  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Master Draper – employing 3 hands

Notes: Wife Clara (Moscrop) (45) plus 2 children (including William James Cranmore (5) who on 1911 census lived at “The Laurels” Evesham Street and he was a Cycle and Motor Dealer & Repairer) + 2 boarders + servant at home. No numbers stated on census but seems to be at this number along the Street. (On the 1871 census the enumerator started on the west side of Evesham Street at this house after Unicorn Hill) On the 1881 census they were classed as being at 4 Evesham Street but no mention of 2 Evesham Street so they must have been at that number as well. On the 1861 census he lived in Whitchurch, Bucks and married to Ann Holder (Mills). He was a schoolmaster at a Wesleyan day school. On the 1851 census Moses was living with his mother Maria (48) and his brother James Cranmore (24) and they were Needle Makers and they also had Hannah Cranmore (80) who was Moses’s Grandmother and they lived in Walkwood. In the 1870 Kelly’s Directory Moses is classed as Draper in Evesham Street. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Directory & Gazetteer, Moses is classed as General Drapery, Millinery, and boot and shoe depot, 1 Unicorn Hill and Evesham Street.

Source: JC – Census