Help with Victorian handwriting

[Mrsemcgregor]

I know mumsnet is usually very helpful at this type of thing. Can anyone tell me what the attached says? I can read Battersea but am completely stumped otherwise. It doesn’t help that I don’t know London!

riftgibbon yes please! Thank you!

Try misspellings, and leave some leaway on the ages.

Thessaly Rd is still there, BTW. Right next to the new fruit and flower market.

It makes sense they were in that area, her father was a railway worker and it’s right by the big interchange at Battersea.

That document of @minipie’S is interesting.
I grew up in Battersea, but don’t remember a Sussex St. I went to school just over the river in Pimlico (actually lived in Pimlico as a much younger child) and there was/still is a Sussex Street there.

BikeRunSki it seems looking at old maps that Sussex Street was only called that for a few years. It became Wadhurst Road in about 1880. Not sure if Wadhurst Road remains?

It seems the whole area was hit in the Blitz actually.

Could you look up the road rather than the names in the 1871 census and see if that finds them? There is a way of searching by address, but can't remember of the top of my head how to do it on Ancestry.