Property: 42 Evesham Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: Zaccheus Shrimpton aged:  48  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Needle Manufacturer – employing 36 hands

Notes: Wife Ann (James) (45) plus 7 children + 1 servant at home On the 1861 census they lived in Queen Street and he was a Needle Manufacturer. His wife Ann was mentioned on the 1851 census as living in Evesham Street but no numbers mentioned but possibly at number 1. In the 1865 Jones’s Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Zaccheus was classed as being at the Unicorn Works, Redditch. In the 1872 Post Office Directory, Zaccheus Shrimpton & Sons, Needle Manufacturers, Evesham Street. In the 1873 Littlebury’s Directory and Gazetteer, Zaccheus Shrimpton & Son, Needle Manufacturers, Unicorn Works, Evesham Street and (firm of Z. Shrimpton and Son) “The Laurels”.

Source: JC – Census