Property: 81 Evesham Street ln year: 1881

Occupant: Mary A. Fowkes aged:  40  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Needle Picker –

Notes: Mary had her sister Maria (38) Needle Hander at home. On the 1871 census she lived in Evesham Street with her Mother Maria at what was classed as the Small Shop but no numbers stated on the 1871 census. On the 1861 census Mary lived with her parents Thomas and Maria in Prospect Hill, Redditch. On the 1891 census Mary A. Fowkes now seemed to be a patient in Hanley Castle Powick, in the Pauper/Lunatic Asylum and she was classed as a Lunatic. She died in 1900.

Source: JC – Census