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Occupant:   Walter Humphries  aged:  43   Born:  Redditch

Was  At Property:     15 Evesham Street ln year: 1881

Trade:         Boot Maker –

Notes:         Wife Emma (42) plus William 13 + 4 other children (including Lillian & Adeline) + Mother at home. On the 1871 census they lived in Evesham Street but no numbers stated on this census. By the 1901 census Walter and Emma seem to live in Balsham Cambs. and Walter was a Pastor of the Congregational Church. On the 1911 census Walter and Emma lived in the “Old House” Histon, Cambridgeshire and had daughter Adeline and her husband and family and daughter Lillian staying with them and Walter was now a retired Congregational Pastor. In the 1880 Directory of Worcestershire Walter was classed as Shoemaker, Evesham Street. In the 1884 & 1888 Kelly’s Directory Walter is classed as Walter Humphries and Son, Shoemakers, 15 Evesham Street. On later census it is their son William who is the Bootmaker at 15 Evesham Street and then later William Humphries & Sons were at 39 Evesham Street. In 2012 in Redditch, 150 years after Walter first opened a Shoe Shop in Evesham Street there is still a Humphries Shoeshop near to the original site at 30 – 32 Evesham Walk in the Kingfisher Centre. Walter died in 1916.

Source:       JC – Census

 
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