Any historians/genealogists about?

[RiftGibbon]

I'm trying to track my ancestors on the 1911 census to no avail. I thought I'd try using the address at which my grandmother was born in 1904, but on her birth certificate there is no street, just "St.Clement's buildings" which were in/near Holborn (area, not station).
How do I go about finding out where that is? The old maps that I can access to search require a street name.

@RedToothBrush

Which search site are you using?

I find ancestry a lot harder to find things by address / location because it doesn't seem to search well on that basis.

I've tried searching for exact addresses where i know people are on that census and sometimes struggled to have it come up.

My tip would be to use the person with the most unusual first name in the household and search for them living with another first name and put the surname as initial* with the location and see what you come up with.

This is easier to do with findmypast but not always a total failure for ancestry.

That and searching for the occupation by location isnt an awful workaround. Ive got lucky more than once.

Unfortunately I've done that and found nothing. Their surname could be misread as beginning wtih R or D rather than P, so I've searched all first names + P, D, R and found none. Also have searched for middle parts of names - e.g. ais + P/D/R* and still nothing. Occupation for father hasn't turned anything up either but he had several changes of profession - from Railway Carriage Cleaner to Gutta Percha Maker's Labourer, so nothing common to use.

Just checked and my cousin is still waiting on the certificate so I'll plod on for now and see if anything materialises.

I may possibly have found one person, but the record says she's with her Grandmother - except the only person of that name (Grandmother) is more like Father's cousins' mother, so not very likely.

^forgot my asterisks to show free search would bold my typing!