Genealogy Chat

I've just discovered these at the library - they are divided into trade, street names and residents' names. I've managed to identify when two relatives died purely going on when they no longer appeared in the directory - I hadn't been able to find them on BMD. It was very exciting!!

Kirsty how do you know they died? They may have moved house. Georgina.

Georgina At the back of the directory is an alphabetical listing where you can look up your ancestor (in one case the daughter was still living in the house). But using the information gained, I looked through a two year period in the full, untranscribed BMD and found them.

Oh well done Kirsty, good bit of detective work there.

Kirsty, these directories are not 100% accurate, often house numbers and streets are missing, also by the time they go to print the info is out of date, and as Georgina pointed out people moved about quite a bit years back. You would be better looking at the Electoral Rolls to see when they cease to be listed, then look in the Wills Indexes to see if they made a will ? I have often found people this way over the years at the Liverpool Record Office.

I just used them as a guide - I then looked through the untranscribed death records - it only narrowed my search and meant that I didn't have to look through the records back to 1901 but rather only a few years.