Property: 15 Evesham Street ln year: 1861

Occupant: Jonas Strain aged:  27  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Draper –

Notes: Wife Elizabeth (Perry) (22) Milliner + Father-in-law Thomas Perry + Mother-in-law Elizabeth Perry at home. On the 1871 census they lived in Evesham Street but no numbers stated on the early census. On the 1851 census Jonas lived with his mother Ann Strain in Evesham Street but no numbers stated on early census. In Jones’s 1865 MercantileDirectory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire & East Worcestershire Jonas was classed as Milliner, Hosier & Haberdasher, Evesham Street. In 1870 Kelly’s Directory Jonas was Linen Draper, Evesham Street.

Source: JC – Census