Genealogy Chat

In the first of this series of "Who do you think you are" on Patsy Kensit, a book was mentioned which contained all the streets of London in (presumably) Victorian times,graded according to the status of the inhabitants i.e.criminal classes,those in desperate poverty,those just getting by etc. Does anyone know the name of this book and whether it can be accessed easily? My g.g.grandfather Henry Thomas Chick ,b.1816 d.1860 was a tobacco pipe maker and lived in Reynolds Court off Moor lane or in Pipemakers Alley,both in Cripplegate and I've always assumed that this was a slum area,but I would love to be able to either confirm or refute this.

hi, i dont know about the book but the name chick is in my family tree too lol...not a very popular name...
alison

Hi, try here.

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=531000,180400,6,large,5

Hi Alison (snap!)
What branch of the Chick family are you connected to?My lot came from Portsea and my earliest ones are Richard and Ann b.about 1750 and their son William who was a baker,married to Mary Paine. A lot of the Chicks seem to come from Somerset.

Hi Libby9
Thanks.I'll give it a try.

They're the Charles Booth maps.
You can find them, and a lot of other v interesting information, on www.victorianlondon.org

K

hi...
yeh they do seem to come from somerset...i havent gone that far back tho as im busy trying to figure out between 1923-1953 at the moment...the only "chick" in my tree at the mo is "lily chick" born 7/6/01 parents are william chick and mary chick from bridgwater somerset...

Thank you Alison and Karen in the desert for your messages.

Sometimes it's referred to as Booth's Poverty Index. Fascinating stuff by the way.