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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Mill Lane In Guernsey c 1861
« on: Monday 10 January 11 17:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the information.

I should like to hear from DCT whose GG grandmother lived at 3 Mill Lane in 1851. She would have been the person who gave lodgings to my GGGgrandfather and his relative.

JR

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Mill Lane In Guernsey c 1861
« on: Sunday 09 January 11 23:05 GMT (UK)  »
RE: 3 Mill Lane, St Peter Port, Guernsey   1851 census

My 3x great grandfather and his daughter's father in law, both from Taunton, Somerset, were lodging at the above address in 1851. I cannot make out the family's name but they were basket makers.
I am at a loss to know why two widowers in their seventies, one a tailor and one a cabinet maker would be so far from home in March 1851. They can't have been well off. Was anything of any significance happening in St. Peter Port at the time? I find it difficult to believe they were in search of work. Surely they would have gone to somewhere on the mainland if that were the case. I somehow don't think they were on holiday either!
Any ideas, please?
By the way, the address above the ones in Mill Lane, on the 1851 census, was in Church Square. Is that of any use in locating where Mill Lane may have been?

JR


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