Thread: Help needed to look up original page of 1881 Census Please!!

Hello,



I've been searching for an elusive John Amey, Butcher, who was named as a father to my Nan's half-sisters. He lived most likely in the London Marylebone and Pancras areas and from family memories might have lived/worked on Euston Road. (He'd died apparently by 1906 according to one of the sister's marriage certificates.)



I've found an entry for a possible candidate: John Amey, butcher, in the 1884 London Directory living at 3 New Street, Dorset Square NW London. So I searched for him on the 1881 Census, but couldn't locate him after putting in the name in the search thingy. However, after a bigger search on Ancestry and as I know some names are mis-transcribed sometimes, I have found an entry for a John Amery at the same address b.abt. 1847 Brighton with his family (wife Ruth, son John Wm. and daughter Margaret C. also with possibly an employee called Mary J. Newbourne, aged 17??). As I am unable to see the original page (no subscription to Ancestry), I was wondering if someone could kindly look up the original page at

RG11; Piece: 156; Folio: 123; Page: 35 and see if the handwritten name looks like it could in fact read 'Amey' and not 'Amery' and provide the full details from the entry.



This would be a great help!



Thanks!



Kind regards



Jilly

Hi, The original does look like Amery but this could be the enumerators interpretation of the name. Mary was a general servant born Woodchurch Kent.



Name: John Amery Age: 34 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Ruth M. Gender: Male Where born: Brighton, Sussex, England



Civil Parish: St Marylebone County/Island: London Country: England



Street address: 3 New St Condition as to marriage: MarriedOccupation: Butcher



Registration district: Marylebone Sub registration district: Christchurch

John Amery 34 Ruth M. Amery 34 John Wm. Amery 5 Margaret C. Amery 3 Mary J. Newbourne 17

Hi Slizzy, Thanks for taking the time to look that up for me!! That was very kind! It's hard to know which spelling of the name is correct: the Amey of the London Directory or this Amery one. However, I did check to see the children's birth on FreeBMD and there is a Margaret Sophia Amey born Marylebone that might match. The Margaret on the 1881 Census shows Margaret's middle initial being C. Also John Wm. came up too under the name of Amey. I guess I should have looked for the marriage of a John Amey/Amery to a Ruth M. too....



I wonder if this particular John Amey died prior to 1906 as the sisters' father did.



I hate to ask this, but is this John Amey of Brighton around in the 1901 Census?



Thanks for your help with this!



Best wishes,



Jilly

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I hate to ask this, but is this John Amey of Brighton around in the 1901 Census? Jilly[/quote]



Hi Jilly, no need to be sorry it's no trouble. John's occupation has changed, he's now a commercial traveller.



Name: John Amey Age: 53 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1848 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Ruth M Gender: Male Where born: Brighton, Sussex, England



Civil Parish: Hampstead Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephen County/Island: London Country: EnglanRegistration district: Hampstead Sub registration district: Hampstead

John Amey 53 Ruth M Amey 54

Hi again Slizzy, Thanks so much for this! It all helps and I'd found the marriage for the both of them under the name of Amey.



Can't say for sure yet if this is the John Amey Butcher who was on my Nan's half-sisters' marriage certificates, but all this information will help to include or eliminate the John Amey candidates.



Thanks again for your help!!



All the best,



Jilly