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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Am I right in thinking that door numbering didn't catch on until there was a door to door postal delivery?
The reason I say that is because I have dabbled a little lately tracing the ancestors of my maternal grandmother, and found that addressess were a bit obscure.
By that I mean - I found an address which was 'Busk', which turns out to be the stretch of Union Rd between St Pauls school and Haworth St.
Other addresses in the list I looked at didn't show door numbers either - just 'so and so Buildings'
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In the 1841 census there were practically no door numbers, some people think the number in the left hand columm is the door number, but thats just the enuerators number. In the 1851 census about 85% of doors were numbered in a separate columm to the enumerators number, by 1861 all houses had numbers, except the posh ones. If you check the preamble at the start of each section in the 1841/51 census it shows the enumerators route, from that with a street plan, it is possible to find the exact house.
Retlaw.