Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Quick Search

Single word search

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

another pair of eyes

ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸ Report 31 Jan 2008 14:10

could someone look at this for me.

MARY ANN GRANT
AGE 26
BORN SOUTH SHIELDS DURHAM

1901 census

theres an awfull lot of peeps in that household.
is it an institution????
xxjoy

Julie

Julie Report 31 Jan 2008 14:15

All the others ( apart from Grant) are lodgers

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸ Report 31 Jan 2008 14:19

word has it the family had money,so that would account for all those peeps being lodgers.hmmmm.
thankyou

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 31 Jan 2008 15:50

The house my great grandparents were in in 1901 was a boarding house and had 35 occupants. The street is still there today and the house is in a Victorian terrace and although not small, certainly not that large either. They must have been squashed in like sardines!!

Kath. x

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸

(¯`*•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`*•.¸ Report 31 Jan 2008 16:29

can you imagine all the rent they would have been getting,no wonder they were well off.lol.xxx

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 1 Feb 2008 02:01

And yet his occupation is only Engineer's Labourer lol. All the others seem to be dock workers of one sort or another. Must have had bunk beds lol.

Battenburg

Battenburg Report 1 Feb 2008 02:40



Perhaps some worked nights and the beds were never empty lol.