Can someone help me please? Who lived at these 2 addresses in 1907?

[theresearcher90]

First address is:

37 Market Street
Shawforth
Lancashire

second one is 148 Market Street, Shawforth, Lancashire

Thank you if you can help :)

Have you tried Find My Past? You can search the census by address and there is usually a free trial on offer. Sorry, I can't help as I don't have a current subscription.

Census was 1911. Was there an electoral roll or Kellys directory available?

On the 1911 census, 37 Market Street Shawforth has the Lord family.

Jacob Lord aged 44, clogger, and wife Sarah also 44. Eight children aged from 22 to 2. All born in Rochdale.

Thank you. My ancestor Emma Gregory (nee Lord) gave this as her address on marriage record. Gregory was married name from 1st marriage (she was widowed I believe). She was originally from the Lord family but I don't recognise the names Jacob or Sarah Lord. May I ask which other names are listed please?

I can find 148 Market Street Whitworth but only 144, 145, 145, then 149 to 152 Market Street Shawforth in the 1911 census. (Though the house numbers aren't necessarily in sequence so could be elsewhere but there's 930 records...).

Jacob and Sarah have a daughter Emma aged 16. Unlike the other older children she has no occupation and the final column headed Infirmity has a note "Feebleminded From Birth".

The other children are Robert, Betsy Ellen, Lambert, Elizabeth Ann, Emily, Edmund and Gladys.

If you'd like me to email it to you, send me a PM with your email address.

I think we must be talking about 2 different Emmas. The one I've researching was born in 1868, her parents were Joseph and Margaret Lord. Perhaps this "other" branch of the Lord family were cousins/aunts/uncles etc?

Still puzzled as to why the specific Emma I'm researching gave this as her address though!

It doesn't seem likely that the Emma on the census is your Emma.

But given the matching surname and address your Emma must be related somehow. Could she be Jacob's sister as they are a similar age? Then named his daughter after his sister?

A bit more digging... Jacob seems to be the son (7th child) of Edmund Lord b1833 Bacup and his second wife Mary Retledge b1843 Belfast. First wife was Ellen Baron, married 1852. No sign of a Joseph, Margaret or Emma.

Thank you so much for doing this extra digging. I'm quite a novice, so not too sure where to look for the most reliable leads. There's an Edmund Lord in my Ancestry family tree but he was born in 1794, so too far back. Same Lord family that I'm researching though. He was married to Ann Maden (born 1792).

It's a conundrum! There must be a relationship of some sort but more likely to be a wider family one as you say.

Just from my digging there seem to be several Edmund Lords so it was fiddly pinning down which one was father of Jacob. Several Edmunds suggest the Lords were a large local family which would be a lot of unpicking!

If you can afford a short membership of FMP that might be worth your while. I find the search facility better and some times different records to those in Ancestry. Plus you can see mothers' maiden names on birth records w/o having to buy the certificate.

I'm doing a lot of research using the Electoral Register Collection at the British Library at the moment. Document orders are frozen until mid-December (strike action), but I will look at the relevant register for you when I am there later this month.