Property: 26 Evesham Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: Josephine Starkey Harris aged:  34  Born:  Islington

Trade: Fancy Shopkeeper –

Notes: Josephine had an assistant in the shop at home. The shop was called “Fancy Shop”. On the 1861 census she lived with her Aunt Elizabeth Hollington in Wellington Street, Redditch. On the 1851 census she lived with William Hollington and his sister Elizabeth, both unmarried (William was a Needle Manufacturer) and Josephine was classed as niece and they lived in Beoley Street. Josephine married in 1877. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Directory and gazetteer Josephine was classed as Miss Josephine Starkey Harris, Berlin wool and fancy repository, Evesham Street.

Source: JC – Census