Property: 4 Market Place ln year: 1881

Occupant: Joshua Jones aged:  41  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Draper –

Notes: Wife Lavinia (Johnson) (35) plus 5 children + 2 boarders + 3 servants at home. On the 1871 census they lived in Church Green West. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Directory & Gazetteer it stated that Joshua was General Draper, Milliner, Hosier, Haberdasher, Hatter &c., Albion House, Church Green. In the 1884 Kelly’s Directory he is classed under Drapers, 4 Market Place. In the 1888 Kelly’s Directory it said he was now a Draper in Unicorn Hill, Redditch. In the 1892 Kelly’s Directory it now says Joshua Jones (Mrs) Draper, 1 Unicorn Hill. On the 1901 census Lavinia was a widow and Draper, 12 & 14 Evesham Street. Joshua died in 1890.

Source: JC – Census